
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 a same client whom one of his girls is meeting with right now.... (Full plot summary below)
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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 a same client whom one of his girls is meeting with right now.
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| Slant MagazineJoseph Jon LanthierThe opaque ethics of The Chaser elide the reductive nature of binary pairs, focusing instead on the far more piquant complexity of human behavior. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe 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. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsThe film is distinguished by the grubby velocity of his foot chases, and the effectiveness of its craft. |
| Time OutAaron HillisNa keeps pulling the rug out from under us, and his brawny genre exercise doubles nicely as a scream of social anguish, since most of the twisted screwups occur at the hands of bumbling or corrupt cops. |
| The New York TimesMike HaleWhile it could stand to lose 20 minutes and several plot twists, Mr. Na’s debut manages to be thought-provoking and adventurous while providing solid thrills. |
| The Hollywood ReporterMaggie LeeThe tight time-frame gives the excellent cast a chance to play with intensity, making even old genre hands hold their breath and feel their minds sufficiently shaken up. |
| VarietyJustin ChangPulse-pounding third act expertly pushes the audience’s buttons, to excruciatingly ironic and ultimately devastating effect. Pic does turn overwrought in the final stretch and would have been wise to end on an earlier note, though action fans won’t mind. |
| EmpireNick de SemlyenSome of the tension drains from a slow middle act, but it remains a gripping tale of sleuth-work and moral awakening. |
| Time Out LondonDavid JenkinsThe best moments come with two bravura and ultra-realistic chase sequences through grotty, dimly lit back allies, and director Na Hong-Jin also does his best to toy with expectations whenever possible. This playfulness, however, backfires massively in the second half when coincidence and unforeseen consequence conspire uneasily with bloody, messy results. |
| The GuardianPeter BradshawIt's atmospheric but derivative, and I didn't find the denouement's Christian imagery convincing. |