I've more or less had it with this stuff, but the film is distinguished by the grubby velocity of his foot chases, and the effectiveness of its craft (not to mention the unglamorous resolution of at least one character's fate).
The Chaser
The hunter and the hunted, the ultimate chase begins.
2008 · 2h 5m · Not Rated
Action, Crime, Thriller
Directed by
Na Hong-Jin
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The Chaser
Overview
Joong-ho is a dirty detective turned pimp, who's in financial trouble as several of his girls have recently disappeared without clearing their debts. While trying to track them down, he finds a clue that the vanished girls were all called up by the same client, whom one of his girls is meeting with right now.
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Easily the best cop thriller since The Departed.
The Chaser is an expert serial-killer film from South Korea and a poster child for what a well-made thriller looked like in the classic days.
The pessimism of Na's slick debut rings false.
South Korean first-timer Na Hong-jin offers nasty thrills, manic foot chases and some genuinely subversive riffs on the police procedural.
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