Movie Review: The Chaser

Posted by Mike McStay at 7:37pm.

Posted in Film & DVD Reviews .

For the last few years I have been openly condemning the Korean film market. The films have become flat and a huge money loser for their production companies. I was prepared to watch the latest, so called hit, The Chaser and then do my usual complaints about Korean films. The only problem is that this film is not a bad film, its actually a great film.

The plot of the story was actually original. It tells of an ex-police officer, who has become a pimp. He keeps losing his girls and is not sure why. Its a busy night and he sends one of his girls to a nice house with a nice man. The pimp then realizes that he sent another girl to this # and she is now missing also. The cat and mouse game now begins between Eom Joong-ho (The pimp) and Ji Yeong-min,(the serial killer).

The story has a lot of twist and turns and it showcases the acting ability of the pimp, Kim_Yoon-Seok. What I really liked about the film was that it shows the insignificance and the inefficiency of the Korean Police and how the public and the people who depend of the police to protect them are being short changed.

I am trying to keep this film as spoiler free as possible because you will want to see each turn and be surprised by it.

The film last shot was well worth the ticket that I paid to see it. Please see it when you can.

Grade A+

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Reader Comments

TheDoug 03/15/2008 @ 5:20am

This film has been generating alot of buzz on various Asian based blogs and has been optioned by screenwriter William Monahan and Leonardo DiCaprio under the auspices of Warner Bros. Hopefully by May or June this will see the light via a nice Region 3 DVD!!!
Rhythm-X 03/15/2008 @ 2:28pm

Yay, the guys who thought INFERNAL AFFAIRS simply wasn’t funny enough return. I so cannot wait to not see this.
Rhythm-X 03/15/2008 @ 2:30pm

Having said that, I ought to clarify that the American remake is what I can’t wait to not see. I’d rather like to see this actual version of it.
crazybee 03/16/2008 @ 9:46am

Surely you have to realize that Infernal Affairs and The Departed are both extremely solid films.
ilikemarmite 03/23/2008 @ 3:19pm

Infernal Affairs was excellent and even the remake wasn’t that bad.

I am keeping an eye out for this film, gonna go look up some more info now.
ilikemarmite 03/23/2008 @ 3:23pm

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1190539/

Seems like it already has a high rating there, tho only a few ratings but definetly some buzz about this film.