Time to Hunt (2020)

In the near future, a financial crisis will hit Korea and slums arise. From those areas, a group of young people commit crime to survive.

Director:

Sung-hyun Yoon

Writer:

Sung-hyun Yoon

Stars:

Lee Jehoon, Jae-hong Ahn, Woo-sik Choi

2 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Lee Jehoon	...	Jun Seok
Jae-hong Ahn	...	Jang Ho
Woo-sik Choi	...	Ki Hoon
Jung-min Park	...	Sang Soo
Hae-soo Park	...	Han
Greg Chun	...	Jun-Seok (voice)
Johnny Yong Bosch	...	Ki-Hoon (voice)
Keong Sim	...	Han (voice)
Stephen Fu	...	Sang-Soo (voice)
Christopher Sean	...	Additional Voices (voice)
David Chen	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Judy Alice Lee	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Kaiji Tang	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Matthew Yang King	...	Additional Voices (voice) (as Matt Yang King)
Stephanie Sheh	...	Additional Voices (voice)

Storyline

In the dystopian South Korea, Jun Seok gets out of prison for a previous heist he and his friends had messed up, and the currency (the Korean won) has crashed massively, making the haul of their last job effectively worthless. Jun Seok proposes one last heist to his best friends Jang Ho and Ki Hoon, in order for the trio to escape from their miserable situations. Their target is an illegal gambling house, which stores hefty stacks of US dollars. The trio recruits Sang Soo, who currently works in the gambling house. After getting firearms from Bong Shik, a friend Jun Seok knew in prison, the quartet proceeds with the heist, which finishes messy but successful. They take a large sum of cash and the gambling house's surveillance hard drives, which contain footage of shady dealings between the gambling house's owners and various criminals. The loss of the surveillance hard drives made the gambling house's owners unhappy. They recruit killer Han to track the quartet and retrieve the hard ...

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Plot Keywords:

korean | heist | money heist | gambling | dystopia | 

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Genres:

Action | Crime | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller

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Certificate:

TV-MA

Did You Know?

Trivia

The movie scheduled to stream exclusively on Netflix worldwide from April 10th, 2020, but on April 9th, 2020 the South Korean courts sided with distribution company Contents Panda on its injunction to stop the release of the film on Netflix. Contents Panda claims to hold international distribution rights, prior to the Netflix agreement with studio company Little Big Pictures. An agreement was then made between Little Big Pictures and Contents Panda to have the film distributed via Netflix from April 23, 2020.

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Soundtracks

Passing By (Prod. Primary)

User Reviews

Suspenseful but unconvincing

Four reckless young idiots get a little in over their heads after deciding to "acquire" some extra cash without really knowing who they are dealing with. The movie is quite suspenseful, but unfortunately the protagonists' actions don't make any sense in several key scenes. "Why the hell are you going in there"-type of stuff we know from dumb horror movies, which just kills your engagement and interest.

The post-economic-collapse Korea backdrop that created the circumstances pushing them towards their unlawful endeavor is portrayed rather unconvincingly. Basically they just added a weird looking electric car and parts of the city are really run down. But there doesn't seem to be any real societal hardship or anything. The bigger picture isn't explained well at all.

Due to their stupid actions, the main characters aren't too relatable and the bad guys aren't very well developed either. And for some reason they decided to add a few American "urban culture" elements, like hip hop beats and the according clothes and mannerisms, which is always ridiculous and in this case also inauthentic. But that's minor.

Ultimately the movie could have been a lot better but is mediocre due to bad writing and I probably wouldn't recommend it to anyone.

Details

Official Sites:

Netflix

Country:

South Korea

Language:

Korean

Release Date:

10 April 2020 (USA)

Also Known As:

Time to Hunt

Filming Locations:

South Korea

Company Credits

Production Co:

Netflix, Sidus Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

134 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Atmos

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1