In recent years, Han Ying has become more and more influential in the world, and commercial films such as "Train to Busan" and "Walking with God" have exploded the circle of friends.
The literary and artistic film "Burning" and others shined brightly at international film festivals.
Even this year's Oscars, which are dominated by Western films, have moved the best film to "Parasite", becoming the first Asian film to win the Oscar for the best film.
And this historic moment is destined to be recorded in the history of international cinema.
The korean movie "hunting time" that I want to talk about today was really twists and turns during the broadcast.
Originally scheduled to be released in early February, the release date is far away.
Around March, Netflix announced that the film would hit Netflix on April 10, 2020.
This move has aroused dissatisfaction with the overseas publishers who have already bought the copyright, and the online broadcast has greatly affected their interests, so much so that they sued the Korean producer.
Finally, a settlement was reached out of court, and it was finally broadcast on the 23rd of this month.
However, compared to the online process, the movie itself is not so exciting.
The story is set in a dystopian worldview, a near-future South Korea, where the economy collapses and the messy streets are full of graffiti and trash.
The protagonist played by Lee Je-hoon spent three years in prison for his brother
After getting out of prison, I want to escape this decadent world.
So I asked my brothers to rob the gangster casino together, and they fled as soon as they had enough funds.
After the successful robbery, he found that he was being targeted by an unknown killer. The three protagonists also became the prey in the eyes of the killer,
A game of hunting is also playing out quietly. . .
world view setting
The protagonist of the film is set to live in a lawless, devastated world.
At the beginning, follow the protagonist's car to watch this slightly cyberpunk ruin.
Homeless people on the streets, streets full of rubbish, dilapidated buildings, unemployed people holding placards in protest, streets full of graffiti, and a sky that is always cloudy.
The emotional soundtrack successfully reminded me of Gotham with the same "simple folk customs" , and it also made me curious about that era.
But the film's description of the worldview is limited to this, and then it enters the formulaic plot.
The plot after that doesn't even have much to do with the setting of a world view, and even makes me suspect that you set this story in the real world, it seems that there is no problem.
time to hunt
The whole story can be divided into two parts, hunting and being hunted .
The first paragraph: For the first forty minutes, the protagonist hunts the casino. In this paragraph, the protagonist trio is the hunter, and the casino is the prey.
The second paragraph is that the protagonist is hunted, and the protagonist takes something that should not be stolen, which leads to being chased by the killer.
In the end, the movie doesn't explain how that thing had an important impact on the plot.
Professional killers enjoy the thrill of chasing and killing, playing with their prey and letting go of the protagonist.
There is basically no character description of the killer, only know that he is very good at cat-and-mouse games.
Is he working for the casino? What's the deal with the police?
And so on, there are only a handful of backgrounds about the villain in the film.
So that in order to track down the whereabouts of the protagonist, he directly killed another important figure in the gang.
Lead to revenge by the gang at the final decisive moment. As an action movie, if you want to please the audience who have watched too many Hong Kong action movies, you must launch your own flagship action brand.
Just like the "Quick Hunt" series, the plot is weak, so the melee scenes are strengthened to show John's speed, accuracy and ruthlessness.
However, the action scenes in this film are also lackluster. The action scenes of casino robbery and killer hunting are similar in many action films, and there is no surprise in sight.
Overall, Time to Hunt is a pretty average movie.
The main point is that the movie is "too long" .
The story foreshadows nearly 40 minutes, and never cuts into the real "hunting" theme.
The "hunting process" that was supposed to be a tense and climax also made people lack eyesight.
The brotherhood shown by the protagonist has not been foreshadowed in the early stage, and Choi Woo-sik's family line has not been deeply explored.
After the robbery, he still lives in his own home safely, and this kind of mentality is no longer there.
Even if the whole film doesn't think about human nature, if the line of "chasing and killing" is well written, at least it can be regarded as a qualified commercial action film.
But such a mediocre finished product has been difficult to please the audience who have seen many popular blockbusters by now.
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