Mai wei 2011

Nicolas Rapold, New York Times: The bloody chaos can be suitably overwhelming, but you're too aware of the whizzing camerawork, helter-skelter editing and bombastic score. Read more

Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: They should have spent more on the screenplay. Read more

Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: Given its aggressiveness in all cinematic matters, My Way manages to color in the personal stakes with enough clarity to keep you caring about the players set loose on its massive canvas. Read more

Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: "My Way" is combative to a thematic and stylistic extreme. Read more

V.A. Musetto, New York Post: An eye-popping, empty-headed World War II epic made in South Korea. Read more

G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle: "My Way," billed as the most expensive Korean film in history ($25 million) is epic, packed with action - and it's lousy. Read more

Stephen Cole, Globe and Mail: Adolescent boys will savour My Way's bombast and solemnity. Cringing adult audiences will more likely beat a retreat before final call. Read more

Nick Schager, Time Out: The paeans about national pride and brotherhood may be regional, but constant slow-motion battle scenes and squishy sentimentality are strictly wanna-be Tinseltown. Read more

Benjamin Mercer, Village Voice: Marshals an overbearing score, turbulent handheld camerawork, and a punishingly brief average shot duration toward the story of two archnemesis long-distance runners who form an unlikely alliance amid the welter of world war. Read more