that doesn’t tell a story so much as it chronically bumps into one, “Hunt” — the directorial debut of “Squid Game” star Lee Jung-jae, who also co-wrote the script and plays the lead role — begins with a premise so primed for spy-vs-spy mind games that you can almost hear John le Carré licking his lips from beyond the grave.
It’s the early 1980s, North and South Korea are locked in a paranoia-driven cold war, and the Gwangju Uprising is still fresh in everyone’s minds. In fact, the massacre has left such a stain on the nation’s psyche that it even seeps into the Tarantino-esque alternate history that Lee spins here, providing some extra sogginess at the bottom of a self-serious popcorn movie in which the South Korean president is only a symbolic representation of the real Chun Doo-hwan.
Alarmed by the unrest and further agitated by rumors...
It’s the early 1980s, North and South Korea are locked in a paranoia-driven cold war, and the Gwangju Uprising is still fresh in everyone’s minds. In fact, the massacre has left such a stain on the nation’s psyche that it even seeps into the Tarantino-esque alternate history that Lee spins here, providing some extra sogginess at the bottom of a self-serious popcorn movie in which the South Korean president is only a symbolic representation of the real Chun Doo-hwan.
Alarmed by the unrest and further agitated by rumors...
- 5/20/2022
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
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