August 04, 2008
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Delivery drivers hate little girls.Budding writer/director Hong-jin Na certainly knows how to make an impression. Not only has his breathless 2008 feature-length debut The Chaser (aka Chugyeogja) been tapped for an all-star American remake, but it has also broken the South Korean box office record set by Joon-ho Bong's classic suspense yarn Memories of Murder. The film's basic storyline -- a tough-as-nails pimp locks horns with a cunning serial killer in order to find his missing girls -- allows for a number of intense confrontations, culminating in a third reel showdown inside the killer's cluttered home that ranks with some of the best ever captured on film. However, don't let these descriptions fool you -- The Chaser is much more than your typical action/thriller. There's a surprisingly amount of effective melodrama to be found throughout the course of the picture, though not enough to alter the story's overall tone or completely derail the film's well-crafted set pieces. If anything, these fleeting moments of humanity serve to increase your emotional investment, especially once things start to take a turn for the worse towards the end of the movie. As long as you can stomach some diabolical violence and a suitably downbeat finale, The Chaser should definitely serve you well.
Recipe For Success: Yun-seok Kim & Jung-woo Ha + Several Intense Foot Chases + If The Ending Doesn't Choke You Up, You're Probably Dead
Pimpin' Ain't Easy: It's a good idea to keep a very close eye on your girls in this day and age.
Implanted GPS chips are the way to go.
3 Spasms:
This sounds great! I'm going to have to track it down.
How did you get ahold of this? I'm really, really interested.
Drop me a line at
He-Shot-Cyrus.blogspot.com
if you've got a minute.
Thanks!
YesAsia.com has a nifty DVD if you own an all-region player. Great release for a great picture.
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