It's one part big-budget disaster movie, one part more-dilemma melodrama and one part 'Snakes on a Plane' for our pandemic era — our review of the South Korean blockbuster 'Emergency Declaration,' which hits American theaters this week.
When that video goes viral before the actual virus does, it attracts the attention of police detective In-ho . He discovers which plane Jin-seok is planning to sabotage, which [] happens to be the same one his wife is currently on. And it’s also the flight that Jae-huk and his daughter are on. Once upon a time, this short-tempered dad was a hotshot pilot before something derailed his career. Good thing he’s around, as the captain just ate a virus-tainted steak.
An old-school disaster movie and an all-star virusploitation thriller coming in extremely hot, South Korea’sfinds itself being caught in an odd time warp. It’s a complete throwback to the cycle of 1970s Hollywood blockbusters that slapped a year behind the wordand forced a who’s-who of famous people to deal with in-flight issues or die trying, not to mention the long tradition of peril-among-the-clouds potboilers like 1957’s.
In other words, you expect the movie to pit our heroes against fighter planes trying to blow them out of Tokyo airspace, especially as it’s an easy way to score political points.