The Chaser
Crime, Drama, Thriller
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2008
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Joong-ho is a dirty detective turned pimp 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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Rated:
Not Rated
Runtime:
125 min
Release date:
14 Feb 2008
Country:
KR
Languages:
Korean
Budget:
$120,456,666
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
27 wins & 25 nominations
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
South Korean first-timer Na Hong-jin offers nasty thrills, manic foot chases and some genuinely subversive riffs on the police procedural.
– Aaron Hillis,
Time Out New York,
30 Dec 2009
rotten:
The pessimism of Na's slick debut rings false.
– Nick Schager,
Village Voice,
30 Dec 2009
fresh:
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.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
28 Jan 2010
fresh:
Easily the best cop thriller since The Departed.
– J. R. Jones,
Chicago Reader,
2 Feb 2010
fresh:
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).
– Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Feb 2010