If there’s one thing Liam Neeson can always do it’s grimace. The new trailer for Lee Jae-han‘s Korean War epic Operation Chromite features Neeson’s slicked-back-hair Douglas MacArthur snarling orders as Lee Jung-jae risks his own neck on the front lines to protect his mother. It’s an action-filled, explosion-heavy bombardment packed into a minute and a half, with teases of some potentially rousing sequences amidst some questionable green screen and CGI.
The titular mission centers on a group of South Korean Navy Special Forces team (including Jung-jae) who had to infiltrate a North Korean commander center with the help of a U.S. ally (Neeson). Ahead of a release next month, see the trailer and poster below, with a nod to Coming Soon.
South Korean Navy Special Forces, Captain Jang Hak-soo and 7 members of the KLO (Korean Liasion Office) unit disguise themselves as a North Korean inspection unit and infiltrate the North Korean army command center in Incheon. Their mission directives from Gen. MacArthur are: 1. Recon enemy forces in Incheon and secure the mine chart, 2. Kidnap ‘Ryu Jang-choon,’ the second highest ranking officer in the North Korean command center, to acquire intel on the naval mine location and 3. On D-Day, light the Palmido light house as a signal to the main UN forces.
Operation Chromite opens in U.S. theaters August 12th.