TYPHOON * (one star)

‘TYPHOON” is an assembly-line thriller from South Korea that just as well could have been made in Hollywood.

A modern-day pirate appropriately named Sin plots to unleash weapons of mass destruction on the Korean Peninsular. Seems he’s pissed because, as a child, he and his family were done wrong by the South Korean government.

Can a hunky South Korean agent save the day? One guess.

Directed by Kwak Kyung-taek, “Typhoon” looks great, thanks to computer-generated effects. Car chases, explosions and shootouts abound, but the plot is implausible and character development is nil.

The film will be hard-pressed to find an audience in the United States. Mainstream moviegoers will be put off by the subtitles, and art-house fans will be insulted by the story’s shallowness.

In Korean, with English subtitles. Running time: 103 minutes. Rated R (strong violence). At the Empire in Manhattan and the Cinemart in Forest Hills, Queens.