Joint Security Area vs The Manchurian Candidate
Joint Security Area has the higher audience score (7.8/10 against 6.5/10 for The Manchurian Candidate). Joint Security Area is the shorter watch at 1h 48m compared with 2h 9m. Joint Security Area is the older of the two (2000 against 2004). Both are drama, mystery, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Joint Security Area
The Manchurian Candidate| Joint Security Area | The Manchurian Candidate | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.8/10 | ★ 6.5/10 |
| Year | 2000 | 2004 |
| Length | 1h 48m | 2h 9m |
| Genres | Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, War | Drama, Mystery, Thriller |
| Country | South Korea | – |
| Director | Park Chan-wook | Jonathan Demme |
| Main cast | Lee Byung-hun, Shin Ha-kyun, Song Kang-ho, Ki Joo-bong, Lee Dae-yeon | Jeffrey Wright, Pablo Schreiber, Anthony Mackie, Liev Schreiber, Jon Voight |
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 Manchurian Candidate
Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow squad-mate Sergeant Raymond Shaw, now a vice-presidential candidate, is the hero he remembers him being. As Marco's doubts deepen, Shaw's political power grows, and, when Marco finds a mysterious implant embedded in his back, the memory of what really happened begins to return.
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