Review of The Chaser

The Chaser (2008)
6/10
Dumb Killer, dumber cops and a lot of coincidences
21 January 2012
Warning: Spoilers
While I was watching this movie I wondered why is everybody playing dumb, the pimp, cops, victims. The whole movie relies heavily on chance and I always hate when a twist or closure is achieved by a mere coincidence. Twists by chance in this movie are too many to count.

"no signal" on the mobile is a pure Hollywood clichè.

You just don't take refuge in a shop when you break loose from a psychotic killer, especially not after you received a beating to the head with a hammer. And he runs out of cigarettes and shopkeeper hands him a hammer, that is not irony, that is bad idea.

Let loose a self-confessed murderer of 12 people and have him followed by only two cops, one was incompetent and the other is too naive, he disappeared before her eyes. Good thing for her, otherwise she would be dead too.

Also if you are going to save a life or catch a criminal you don't run across the whole city, just take a cab.

Another thing that bugs me, incompetent cops, they never interrogate the suspect properly , all we see lots of blubbering and shouting and some occasional pissing contest. This is a crime movie but we don't see cops following any clues such as missing people, mobile signals, plate numbers all we see a pimp sniffing around the city and pimp's guy, also dumb, with lots of keys looking for the right gate in a large area.

If you ask me, the real trouble is the poster of the movie. You can always speculate if it has some deeper meaning but for me, it's completely awful and unintelligible and uninviting.

I like Korean movies but this movie didn't satisfy me least a bit.
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