Don't Knock It til You've Watched It

Posted by Tom Berner on Oct 29th 2017

Inchon is far far better than the hype of people who haven't seen it. Yes, Olivier gives a weird performance as General MacArthur, sometimes taking the role seriously, sometimes appearing to have wandered in from a Naked Gun like parody. But Olivier is not on the screen long enough to ruin the movie. It is a good, solid "B" movie with "A" movie production values. There are several subplots. There is the war itself with the bad guys suitably bad and the good guys complex. There is a moving story involving a Colonel's estranged wife as she becomes responsible for rescuing a car load of orphans. There is the Colonel himself, torn between his love for his wife and his love for a Korean woman. There are the Korean people themselves, forming a resistance to the inexorable attack of North Korea. This is a movie worth watching, especially in the current climate in Korea.