If you can’t imagine the loser hero with a conscience from Squid Game shooting through the streets like a Rambo in a suit and ramming minibuses into cars in a very functional way, then you should watch Hunt. Espionage Hatz shows the star of the most successful Netflix series ever in two important roles: Lee Jung-Jae is making his directorial debut with the action thriller and also plays the hypothermic agent who is pointing his gun at the Hunt for a North Korean spy might.
At the Cannes Film Festival Hunt premiered at the Midnight Screenings, where the bullet salvos and hair-raising agent twists are pretty much in good hands. The two main characters, however, belong to the most disgusting movie heroes of the cinema year.
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The action thriller Hunt teems with paranoia and violence
To do justice to the constant zigzagging of Hunt’s story, this article would need to be at least 1,500 words long. Since the next screening calls for a juicy red apple for supper and the next performance in Cannes, here is the short version:
Squid Gamer Lee Jung-Jae plays Park, a big shot in the game South Korean foreign espionage in the early 1980s. After the unsuccessful attempt on the president, he is given the task of finding a northern spy in his own ranks. The same goes for Kim (Jung Woo-sung, the good guy in The Good, the Bad, the Weird), who is Park’s counterpart in the domestic intelligence agency, so to speak. Both soon suspect each other and so begins a competition in which the top agents want to bring each other down.
The basic idea is reminiscent of Tomas Alfredson’s stuffy John Le Carré film adaptation of The King As a Spy, only with machine guns, grenades and detours into the hostel’s memorial basement. Torture rules the methods of information gathering in Hunt. Kim, our hero number 2, has rows of activists from the democracy movement tormented in order to extract confessions from them about an alleged communist conspiracy. So much so that at one point I wondered when I’d last seen so many dislocated shoulders in one movie.
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Hero number 1, Park, is no child of sadness either. While he professes his dislike of forced confessions, violence remains his modus operandi. Which is hardly surprising in an action film. When it comes to spectacle, new director Lee pours his budget from every available can. A house fight reminds Heat, a Man-to-man fight over several flights of stairs invites you to smile about the stunt work. Personally, I particularly enjoyed the visceral scenes of cars crashing into each other. (everyone has their kinks)
The screenplay is the biggest problem of the action thriller
Elsewhere, Kim and Park would probably be the villains. For long stretches of the film, they terrorize as compliant accomplices of a dictatorship their surroundings. In this, Hunt resembles, at least in part, Bong Joon-ho’s (Parasite) masterpiece Memories of Murder. The film, which takes place around two years later, shows how cops maltreat innocent people while looking for a serial killer. Only Hunt pushes the violent outbursts much further, while the characterization withers away.
In the end, there are two disgusting main characters standing or shooting, which make the goings-on in Squid Game look almost harmless. Also because the script co-written by Lee Jung-jae – unlike that of the Netflix success – finds its heroes pretty cool. The Enjoy the action By the way, Hunt hardly diminishes that, because the two stars Lee Jung-jae and Jung Woo-sung once again prove themselves to be charisma bombs. A much greater weakness is the confused story and the superficial characterization, which completely ruins the effect of some later twists in the film. But as I said: cars ram cars. You can see that.