2001 · action · fantasy · comedy
Volcano High
Directed by Kim Tae-gyun2h 0m2001
Kim is expelled from his eighth school and finds himself at Volcano High where students fight to possess a treasured ancient document. Kim, who must resist from using his Chi, is caught in the middle.
Our read: Volcano High (2001) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive action · fantasy · comedy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured action / fantasy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
- intense
- inventive
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