Joint Security Area vs Patient Zero

Joint Security Area has the higher audience score (7.8/10 against 5.3/10 for Patient Zero). Patient Zero is the shorter watch at 1h 27m compared with 1h 48m. Joint Security Area is the older of the two (2000 against 2018). Both are action, drama, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Joint Security Area posterJoint Security Area2000 VS Patient Zero posterPatient Zero2018
Joint Security AreaPatient Zero
Audience score★ 7.8/10★ 5.3/10
Year20002018
Length1h 48m1h 27m
GenresAction, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, WarAction, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country––
DirectorPark Chan-wookStefan Ruzowitzky
Main castLee Byung-hun, Shin Ha-kyun, Song Kang-ho, Ki Joo-bong, Lee Dae-yeonMatt Smith, John Bradley, Natalie Dormer, Clive Standen, Pippa Bennett-Warner

Synopsis

Joint Security Area

Two North Korean soldiers are killed in the border area between North and South Korea, prompting an investigation by a neutral body. The sergeant is the shooter, but the lead investigator, a Swiss-Korean woman, receives differing accounts from the two sides.

Patient Zero

After an unprecedented global pandemic has turned the majority of humankind into violent infected beings, Morgan, a man gifted with the ability to speak the infected's new language, leads the last survivors on a hunt for patient zero and a cure.

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