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Hoped for better
This is a thriller with very few reinforcements available, very little ammunition, tracking down a monster of nameless lethality.
The tension is constant; the characters are stressing out and swearing up and down in striking realism. As soon as the monster is discovered by the main character, the roles are reversed.
Up to that moment, the film fully deserves a 10/10, but unfortunately, it very quickly becomes disappointing.
Im Seong-ae comes off like a parody of Rambo: skid, then gun in hand with several long takes and slow-motion shots. Then she gets back behind the wheel while spouting cliché lines every five seconds. Her arrival clashes with the entire mood of the movie.
The poop joke, although funny because of how much they push it, drives another nail into the coffin of immersion. Aside from the hunt in the forest and the autopsy in the city, the film completely loses its pacing and what it did best.
It turns into a succession of shootouts and car chases, redundant to the point of making these scenes visually slower than the rest. There are more car chases in this movie than car scenes in a Fast & Furious.
We also need to talk about the inconsistency of the creatures. Some seem to fear bullets enough to cover themselves or lose limbs to explosives, while others take several head-on hits and keep running. The quality of the CGI is also inconsistent.
We end up taking their perspective, which, to me, felt like yet another betrayal. Their distress is explained to us through this dialogue, yet all the clues were already there and had even been deduced by the cop earlier.
Ironically, the movie concludes with the characters still running, again. It’s a shame, the film could have been wrapped up in one go if it didn’t beat around the bush so much.
The tension is constant; the characters are stressing out and swearing up and down in striking realism. As soon as the monster is discovered by the main character, the roles are reversed.
Up to that moment, the film fully deserves a 10/10, but unfortunately, it very quickly becomes disappointing.
Im Seong-ae comes off like a parody of Rambo: skid, then gun in hand with several long takes and slow-motion shots. Then she gets back behind the wheel while spouting cliché lines every five seconds. Her arrival clashes with the entire mood of the movie.
The poop joke, although funny because of how much they push it, drives another nail into the coffin of immersion. Aside from the hunt in the forest and the autopsy in the city, the film completely loses its pacing and what it did best.
It turns into a succession of shootouts and car chases, redundant to the point of making these scenes visually slower than the rest. There are more car chases in this movie than car scenes in a Fast & Furious.
We also need to talk about the inconsistency of the creatures. Some seem to fear bullets enough to cover themselves or lose limbs to explosives, while others take several head-on hits and keep running. The quality of the CGI is also inconsistent.
We end up taking their perspective, which, to me, felt like yet another betrayal. Their distress is explained to us through this dialogue, yet all the clues were already there and had even been deduced by the cop earlier.
Ironically, the movie concludes with the characters still running, again. It’s a shame, the film could have been wrapped up in one go if it didn’t beat around the bush so much.
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