R Point (2004): Hey what's up guys. Today I'll
show you a psychological horror film: "R Point"! Spoilers ahead; watch out and take care!
The movie begins in Vietnam a little after midnight, where a couple of soldiers are seen
passing the time at their military base. Suddenly, they get a radio transmission from an island base
known as Romeo Point, called R Point for short. A mysterious soldier states that he and his men
are dying in an intense struggle, but the soldier doesn't respond when further questioned. Later,
we see a survivor from R Point, who is bandaged and traumatized by what he experienced. He is
questioned by a general, who wants to know how they received a transmission from R point, because
the survivor's unit was presumed to be dead. The survivor struggles to form his sentences, but is
able to say that nobody from his team had survived during their operation at R point. He also states
that he had collected all their tags as evidence. Now, an ex-army man, Choi, and his friend go to
a night lady station for some late-night hormone yoga. After flexing their muscles,
Choi tries to chill and sleep, but is alerted by sounds of shooting. He quickly gets up and brings
out his gun, when he spots a suspect moving toward him. He shoots the suspect down, but also notices
that his friend has been attacked and killed. The next day, we see Choi reporting to the general,
who tells him that he is being sent along with a new platoon in order to investigate R point, so
that they can find the missing soldiers from the survivor's unit. Choi isn't interested in this,
but the general burns a complaint paper, and tells him that he can make the previous night's incident
go away. Realizing that this is his only chance for an honorable discharge, Choi has no choice
but to comply with the general's demands. Later, a doctor inspects some soldiers' health conditions,
including the youngest soldier named Newbie. A nurse checks Newbie's smelly sausage up close
and personal, and then he weirdly explains that he sold his medical certificate for 50 bucks,
because that's enough for him to buy a cow. After the health check, the entire platoon is sent off
to R Point, with Choi as their leader and an old soldier as his Assistant. However, none of the
soldiers seem to be thrilled with the idea of being sent away to an unknown place for a week.
The platoon reaches R Point using a Tesla boat, and then they decide to pose for a photo, with a
creepy soldier. This doesn't please Assistant, but Choi says it's fine to strike a pose.
After the photo session, the team moves forward through the forest, and is attacked by some
mosquitoes. They start complaining about it, but are suddenly attacked by a fiery range of bullets.
The team quickly takes evasive action, and tries to fire back at the enemy; but not everyone is
able to deal with the difficulty of the situation, especially Newbie. Things get tricky as the team
tries their best to attack their opponent, but are not able to spot who it is. Luckily, they manage
to sneak around from behind, and fire a bazooka at the enemy, finally ending the drama.
Upon inspecting the enemy, the team realizes that their opponent is a sexy girl, who is next to a
corpse, assumed to be at least a week old. She is still alive and smiles at the soldiers in a creepy
fashion, while she bleeds from her mouth with never-brushed teeth. The soldiers are in no mood
for her twisted humor, so they decide to kill her without hormone mercy. However, for some reason,
none of the soldiers are able to shoot her with their guns. The team walks away from the scene,
while the bleeding girl looks at them with ominous energy, possibly wanting to babysit the chicken
soldiers. Later, the team comes across the R point perimeter, but they also find a creepy
story inscribed on a piece of stone. It talks about how the Chinese soldiers dumped hundreds
of Vietnamese soldiers there; but the team moves on regardless, with one of them even peeing on
the rock without care or concern. What they don't notice though, is that the rock also has
a message saying "they can't go back once they enter". In the night, a sergeant named Park,
starts to flex his sexual history before the virgin soldiers. Choi orders them to shut up their
smelly mouths. Realizing that they're being too loud, the soldiers decide to keep quiet for now,
because they assume that an enemy platoon might be nearby. Now, Park and his friends sit next
to each other while doing their smelly business; but then, they talk about ghosts, and get scared
to shit in the middle of the spooky jungle. after finishing their smelly business, They eventually
decide to go back to the others, but they get jump-scared by one of their teammates as well.
The next day, the team wakes up refreshed, and they spot an abandoned house, later revealed to be
a French plantation house. Seeing such a big house in the middle of the jungle intrigues the soldier;
so they make their way inside, and explore the area. They don't find anything inside the house;
but there are over 3 and a half kilometers to cover; so Choi tells his men to separate into
groups, so that they can cover more ground. This is exactly what they do as they set out into the
jungle. but one soldier named Chicken Boy, gets separated from his group, and begins to
panic like a chicken. After looking around for a bit, Chicken Boy eventually finds some soldiers,
and assumes them to be from his troop. However, they don't respond to him when spoken to,
and they suddenly lie down on the ground. Chicken Boy also does what they're doing, assuming that
an enemy is nearby. However, when he gets up to check on the soldiers, he notices that all
of them have vanished into thin air. Meanwhile, Choi finds out that Chicken Boy has gone missing,
so he orders both groups to try and look for him. A hectic sequence follows as the soldiers
call out to Chicken Boy in the middle of the jungle, but to no avail. To make matters worse,
the 2 groups almost end up shooting each other in the process, when they inadvertently meet next to
some Holy Stones. Luckily for them, they manage to find Chicken Boy next to these Holy Stones.
Later, Chicken Boy is ridiculed for getting lost, especially when he was supposed to
stick to his group. he simply starts acting paranoid, and mentions that he saw a soldier,
who had a helmet with a message for his girlfriend. This triggers a soldier named Grumpy,
who believes that Chicken Boy is simply playing a cruel prank on him. Grumpy is about to beat
him up for being insincere, even though he doesn't reveal why he's so upset. Before this can happen,
the team hears an American chopper nearby. Now, we meet some American soldiers led by a bulky
American Captain. He has a chat with Choi, and tells him that this house used to belong to a
French garrison that lost all their lives over here. American Captain goes on to state that
his men own everything on the 2nd floor of this building, so the others shouldn't enter
it. He also explains that R point is haunted, and Choi's men won't survive it, just like the French
soldiers. American Captain is so sure of that, so he even places a bet with his men regarding
the fate of Choi's team. After the Americans leave, Choi learns about a radio transmission,
which was seemingly being broadcast by French soldiers. Meanwhile, Chicken Boy is attacked by
Grumpy once again because of the helmet story. An ominous presence watches over them like a
peeping Tom, as Chicken Boy berates Grumpy and leaves. That's when Grumpy reveals to us that
the helmet actually belonged to one of the missing soldiers, that the team is sent here to look for.
Later, the radio gets fixed, and this prompts the team to flex some dance moves to the song playing
on it. Suddenly, the ominous presence appears, and the radio song changes to the terrified
screams of some soldiers. This clearly affects everyone, even prompting Park to go outside
and chill for a bit. Choi is also disturbed by what he's just heard, but decides to listen to
the spooky recording on repeat. Park is joined by one of the soldiers; but they get disturbed by a
mysterious presence. They assume it to be the same creepy soldier they took a photo with earlier,
who is supposedly on duty. Meanwhile, Choi is able to see a ghost lady in white from the window,
although she vanishes soon after. The next day, we learn that the creepy soldier has gone missing,
so the soldiers need to go look for him. Park tries to flex his sexual history once again;
but suddenly gets soaked in blood falling from above. Park looks up to see the creepy soldier's
body hanging from the top, and gets horrified. As he pukes on the grass, Choi maintains that the
team still has to find the missing soldiers. The team reluctantly does as they're told,
and then we spot a mysterious stone, with holy incense sticks next to it. Later at night, Choi
gets scolded by the general, because he states that the creepy soldier is one of the men they
are here to look for. Choi can't believe what he's hearing, but the general scolds him over the phone
once more, thinking that he is drunk. That's when the other soldiers realize that they only saw the
creepy soldier on the island, and not at the dock when they left from their base. It starts to rain,
and Grumpy thinks back to the time when his friend left for R Point. This is the same friend, who
had the helmet with his girlfriend's name on it. Later, Choi spots the lady in white once again,
and decides to follow her hormone smell. He flashes his light after losing track of her,
and finds himself inside a graveyard next to a spooky pillar. It turns out to be a grave
for the French soldiers, who used to stay in the plantation house, just like American Captain had
mentioned earlier. Now, Grumpy starts to lose his sanity, and runs away from the others. However,
he bumps into the ghost of his dead friend, and is unable to believe what he's seeing. He
ends up falling into a trap that was set for intruders. This alerts Choi and the others,
so they rush to the scene. They find Grumpy lethally injured and acting delirious. He
eventually dies, so the soldiers try to figure out what's going on. They begin to believe that
R point is haunted by some evil forces, but Choi doesn't want anyone to talk about this.
He is then told by his Assistant that he needs to make the team split into 2,
if they want to find the missing soldiers. This is exactly what happens the next day, and the group
with Assistant runs into the same area where Choi found the graveyard earlier, as can be seen by the
spooky pillar. However, there's no graveyard there now, and the soldiers also find a tag of a missing
soldier. To make matters worse, the soldiers also find the same rock, which has the message, "Can't
go back". This causes Assistant to panic, and he spots something in the forest; so he instinctively
runs after it, leaving his men behind. Assistant engages in a confusing chase; after which,
the other group comes across the dead bodies of American Captain and his soldiers they met
earlier. It's a cause for concern, as these bodies seem to be very old. The mystery gets even weirder
when Chicken Boy and some men cross a river, and find the dead bodies of the missing men. Now,
Assistant checks out a cave, and hears the same radio screams. Meanwhile, Chicken Boy spots a
ghost in the middle of the jungle, and begins to panic. Assistant follows the sounds for a while;
but then, he runs into a rotting corpse. By now, Chicken Boy has lost his mind, so Park tells him
to buck up. Despite this, he starts shooting at some intruders like a mad chicken; but they just
happen to be the other group's soldiers. As a result, one of the soldiers gets shot and dies;
but Chicken Boy maintains he had shot a ghost, not a teammate. Tensions run high; but the team
eventually goes back to the plantation house. Later at night, the soldiers inspect the 2nd
floor, but find nothing of value there. This makes the others suspect Choi of being in cahoots
with American Captain, and a tense confrontation follows. However, Choi diffuses it with a slap,
and tells everyone to do as he says. He tries to radio for a chopper, but it's going to take time;
so the other soldiers begin to panic. They suddenly hear knocking, so they rush to
the door with their weapons, but learn that it's only the Assistant. He has returned with a skull,
and states that the team shouldn't have come to R point in the first place. Choi suspects him of
being a ghost, but Assistant proves his innocence at first, by stating his name and rank. However,
when Park begs him for help, he ends his flexing life with his blade. This prompts Choi and the
others to open fire at his Assistant and kill him. Choi realizes that a ghost is trying to make the
soldiers go crazy by showing them illusions, and manipulates them to kill each other. This
can be seen when a soldier spots dead soldiers next to his team members, and starts to panic.
Choi keeps asking his soldiers for their names and ranks to keep them in their senses, but the ghost
then possesses the radio to distract everyone, with the same spooky transmission from the French
soldiers. This allows the ghost to possess one of the soldiers, who goes on to release a
grenade even after Choi shoots him. This causes an explosion that makes Newbie lose his eyes,
so Choi attends to him. However, Chicken Boy has become possessed now, so he kills his comrade, and
then gets shot by Choi. After helping Newbie with his eye wound, Choi finds a photo of the French
Garrison, which also includes the lady in white. That's when he finally realizes that the ghost
is the lady in white, who had killed the French Garrison, as well as American Captain and his men,
presumably because she died a horrible death at R Point, and now seeks revenge on the soldiers. She
shows up to flex her skinny but ghostly figure, so Choi tries to attack her with his blade;
but gazing at the ghost will somehow prevent her victims from fighting her. Choi acts fast, and
guides the blind Newbie with his voice to shoot at the ghost lady as she approaches him. However,
the ghost lady vanishes at the very last moment, and the blind Newbie ends up killing Choi in a
tense sequence. Choi drops to the ground and dies, while Newbie keeps calling out to him,
hoping for a response. Newbie is later found by the rescue chopper, but is shown to have
gone mad just like the previous survivor, but his life gets spared, possibly because he's blind and
can't be affected by the ghost. The movie ends with a shot of the radio as it starts to bleed,
implying that the ghost tries to manipulate people to send more rescue teams to R point.
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