The Tower (2012) on Netflix
Building manager Lee Dae-ho cancels Christmas Eve with his daughter Ha-na to oversee a lavish party at Tower Sky, a twin-tower complex. Then a helicopter strikes the building and fire breaks out.
- Netflix3.7/5
- IMDb6.5/107,420 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes29%
Trailer
Plot summary
Lee Dae-ho is a single father who manages Tower Sky, a 120-story twin-tower complex in Yeouido, Seoul. He promised his daughter Ha-na a Christmas Eve together, but the building's owner, Mr. Jo, is throwing a luxury party for tenants, VIP guests and politicians, and Dae-ho has to run it. During inspections he finds the sprinklers on the Riverview Tower have failed because the pipes froze, yet Jo and the safety head, Mr. Cha, go ahead with the celebration despite the risk and the forecast winds. Two helicopters Mr. Jo leased spray snow over the party until updrafts send them spinning; one hits the skybridge, the other plows into the Riverview Tower and sets it alight. Captain Kang Young-ki and his firefighters, joined by rookie Lee Sung-woo, head inside, while Dae-ho searches for Ha-na.
Cast
- Kim Sung-ohas In-geon
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Tower (2012)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Director Kim Ji-hoon, previously known for Sector 7 and May 18, drew on the 1974 Hollywood film The Towering Inferno and on first seeing Seoul's 63 Building as a middle school student, imagining being trapped inside it.
- For the water scenes on the 80th floor, Sul Kyung-gu and Kim Sang-kyung shot inside a water container set built in Goyang City, Gyeonggi Province, doing the work themselves rather than using stuntmen.
- Kim Ji-hoon spent two years on post-production: 1,700 of the film's 3,000 cuts were based on CGI, 500 of those were full 3-D, and the ending's miniature was shot in the United States with a motion control camera.
- Its opening day drew 431,759 admissions, the second-highest opening-day ticket sales in the history of Korean cinema, just behind The Thieves' 436,628.
