Joint Security Area vs Special Forces
Joint Security Area has the higher audience score (7.8/10 against 6.7/10 for Special Forces). Joint Security Area is the shorter watch at 1h 48m compared with 1h 49m. Joint Security Area is the older of the two (2000 against 2011). Both are action, drama, war movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Joint Security Area
Special Forces| Joint Security Area | Special Forces | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.8/10 | ★ 6.7/10 |
| Year | 2000 | 2011 |
| Length | 1h 48m | 1h 49m |
| Genres | Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, War | Action, Drama, War |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Park Chan-wook | Stéphane Rybojad |
| Main cast | Lee Byung-hun, Shin Ha-kyun, Song Kang-ho, Ki Joo-bong, Lee Dae-yeon | Djimon Hounsou, Tchéky Karyo, Didier Flamand, Diane Kruger, Benoît Magimel |
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.
Special Forces
Afghanistan. War correspondent Elsa Casanova is taken hostage by the Taliban. Faced with her imminent execution, a Special Forces unit is dispatched to free her. In some of the world’s most breathtaking yet hostile landscapes, a relentless pursuit begins between her kidnappers who have no intention of letting their prey escape them and a group of soldiers who risk their lives in pursuit of their single aim – to bring her home alive. This…
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