Should You Watch Netflix's New Korean Action Movie 'Carter'?
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Netflix has two big new movies coming to South Korea exclusively this month, one of which just landed in the form of Carter. Should you press play on the new Netflix movie or should you scroll? Here is our opinion on PLAY, PAUSE OR STOP by Carter.
The new film features Joo Won as Carter (good doctor), Sung-Jae Lee as Kim Jong-hyuk (Abyss) and Kim Bomin (the silent sea).
Joo Won is famous for his portrayal of Park Shi On in the good doctorwhich was eventually adapted into an American medical drama of the same name for Fox starring Freddie Highmore.
Launched straight into a dangerous mission with none of his memories intact, a man must escape death while trying to figure out who he is, how he got here, and who is the mysterious voice in his ear calling to him. Carter”.
Netflix original Korean movies are some of my favorites on the platform. time to hunt, Well, The call, space sweepers, Yes #Live.
They all brought something new and exciting to subgenres that may have gone stale in recent years.
my hope for Carter was to do just that: give me something new and exciting that I could see replicated in upcoming American movies (I'm looking at you, Extraction).
But now I hope American filmmakers will only watch the fight footage on YouTube.
Carter is an ultra-violent masterclass in hand-to-hand combat and vehicular stunts, but it's also an unnecessarily convoluted film with a shallow lead and bloated running time.
The film seems to be fascinated or preoccupied with certain elements which, on their own, could have been an interesting background or subtext for the main plot. A containment of the virus in the age of Covid, frayed relations between North Korea and South Korea, US/CIA involvement in South Korea, and of course zombies! But instead it tries to include all of these things to confuse a story full of unreliable characters and an amnesiac protagonist.
The effect is mostly confusion as we try to rebuild Carter's character through forced exposition dumps between fight sequences.
Some fans of the genre may also complain about the presentation of the action itself as director Byung-gil Jung (the meanie) brought a rare inspiration to his POV compositions: the video games.
Between drone shot transitions and rotating tracking shots, the cinematography resembles the cutscenes between missions in some first-person shooters. With constant direction and narration from the female agent in Carter's ear, this feature is more like a character selected by her and the people in charge of him to gain enough levels to get the big boss at the end. .
Of all the crazy action stunt scenes, the one that stood out to me the most was the roughly 50-minute fight sequence in the film that begins with a boy being abducted by a man on a motorcycle. This leads to a high-speed mostly melee battle where men jump from motorbikes to open cars, shootouts and knife fights between 3 moving vehicles at once, and a city bus overturning in the middle from a busy street. This sequence of almost 7 minutes culminates with the explosion of several motorcycles at the same time.
While it didn't work for me as a device, I will say the movie moves too fast and dazzles enough with its stunt choreography that it doesn't stick around long enough to bore us.
Ultimately, the film is a perfect example of modern action cinema gone wrong. Action works best when it serves the plot. While incredibly good at it, Carter puts all his eggs in the fight sequence basket and pushes backstory, character development, and cohesive storytelling into the background.
PLAY, PAUSE OR STOP? : PAUSE.
While you may be bothered by the dialogue or unimpressed with the plot, you have to admit that the action and stunts will impress just about any casual action movie fan, even if some of them are downright awesome.
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