This one starts off awfully with a shot of a CGI owl flying across a CGI moon and just gets better from there. Shades of RASHOMON in the fragmented story of an incident at the DMZ which leaves a number of soldiers on both sides dead and injured. An investigator is called in to piece together what happened, so the back story then plays out and a compelling one it is too. Park Chan-wook offers us a searing critique of not only North/South Korean politics but also the human race as a whole. Both Lee Byung-hun and Song Kang-ho offer star-making performances in a slow-burning tale that gradually builds to a devastating climax.