HOPE Is This Year's Most Unhinged Action Movie (Review)
Hope, from South Korean filmmaker Na Hong-jin (The Chaser, The Wailing), is reportedly the most expensive movie in Korean film history. Set in a fishing village along the DMZ between North and South Korea, the 160-minute film follows a police chief and local hunters investigating mysterious animal deaths, which turn out to be caused by near-human-looking alien creatures. The review praises the film's deliberate pacing and intense, prolonged action sequences (including a standout car-chase introduction for one character), and notes it functions as an allegory about the blurry line between self-defense and attacking \"the other.\" However, the reviewer criticizes the shallow characters, simplistic plot, and rough CGI, and is frustrated that the ending abruptly reveals this is merely \"chapter one\" of a larger story rather than a complete narrative. Despite its flaws, the reviewer calls it relentless, well-acted, and worth watching, even while feeling ambivalent about a sequel.
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