Joint Security Area vs The Man with the Iron Heart

Joint Security Area has the higher audience score (7.8/10 against 6.6/10 for The Man with the Iron Heart). Joint Security Area is the shorter watch at 1h 48m compared with 2h . Joint Security Area is the older of the two (2000 against 2017). Both are action, thriller, war movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Joint Security Area posterJoint Security Area2000 VS The Man with the Iron Heart posterThe Man with the Iron Heart2017
Joint Security AreaThe Man with the Iron Heart
Audience score★ 7.8/10★ 6.6/10
Year20002017
Length1h 48m2h
GenresAction, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, WarAction, History, Thriller, War
CountrySouth Korea–
DirectorPark Chan-wookCédric Jimenez
Main castLee Byung-hun, Shin Ha-kyun, Song Kang-ho, Ki Joo-bong, Lee Dae-yeonStephen Graham, Adam Nagaitis, Rosamund Pike, Geoff Bell, Jack O'Connell

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.

The Man with the Iron Heart

With the Third Reich at its peak in 1942, the Czech resistance in London plans the most ambitious military operation of WWII – Anthropoid. Two young recruits are sent to Prague to assassinate the most ruthless Nazi leader – Reinhard Heydrich, head of the Reich Security Main Office, the Gestapo and the architect of the Final Solution.

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