'Hunt,' the directorial debut from 'Squid Game's Lee Jung-jae, is an action-thriller that has plenty of potent hits. Our review:
There are two competing components to Hunt, a South Korean espionage action thriller set in the 1980s directed by and starring Lee Jung-jae, in how it unravels. This refers not just to the story, which centers on opposing agents KCIA Foreign Unit chief Park Pyong-ho and Domestic Unit chief Kim Jung-do , but its tone.
It all begins with the opening text that attempts to emphasize that none of this is based in reality and any possible connections to history are merely coincidences. You’ve heard it all before in countless other films, but it feels immediately dubious here when it kicks off with an assassination attempt on the new South Korean president. While it fails, the history of the successful real-life 1979 assassination and the subsequent upheaval in the country looms large.
Take when Park and Kim seem to be at each other’s throats, ready to fight in the interrogation room. Suddenly, an alarm sounds and we get notified that a North Korean pilot has entered South Korean airspace. It turns out he’s a defector who affirms the presence of a mole in a manner that feels like it will be significant, only for it to be one of many scenes that becomes extraneous to the prevailing energy of the story.
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