this movie serve a a timely warning to anyone who think they can both write and direct their own movie . face it and you can not . because that way there nobody around to tell you when you hack great hole in your plot and have meaningless transition and trite and unmemorable dialog and manage to turn a fairly cool korean legend into a steam pile of celluloid turd . i want to like this movie a a trashy popcorn movie and really i do while i like lot of crappy movie . but once i have be force to ask myself what the hell just happen and why and dear lord and why . more than a few time and i really can not take it any more . also and i would love for someone to explain how la become mordor for the last scene .