undeaddt Storywise, I expected a lot, I mean a lot more than what I've seen, since the movie is rated 7.9, but in the end, it delivered something else. It delivered the message, the true message that the producer wanted us to see. You can see all the flaws in the system, the police, the above all politician, the lazyness and carelessness the police men showed towards the accused murderer. You can see how prostitution is something normal and legal, like an everyday job, the even commercialise it. South Korean and Japanese acting always seems to touch me emotionaly, they all act so well. But like I said, storywise, I expected at least some what little twist at the ending, but I was sorely dissapointed. Anyway 7/10, nothing more, nothing less.

Bento de Espinosa This movie is simply ridiculous, then nothing in it is believable, unless in South Korea everybody is just plain stupid.It's about police officers behaving like children, doing nothing right and yelling at each other all the time. The only likable character is the victim, who happens to be stupid as well. She gets severely beaten in the head with a big hammer, and yet she miraculously survives, escapes and... gets killed with a hammer.And it's about a very unlikable protagonist, who beats the sh*t out of a serial killer, who every time stands up and walks as if nothing happened.Lot's of violence and blood. And nothing else.

sandnair87 There are a handful of moments in The Chaser – the feature-length debut of Korean director Na Hong-Jin - that tease its audience with smirking conventionality: We watch a sweet but sickly prostitute traipse into the proverbial lion's den and a good-natured but worldly pimp extemporaneously take an orphaned girl under his wing and we momentarily feel the film slipping from its director's control. The slipperiness, however, eventually defines the movie's milieu. The Chaser is a clever riff on cops-and-criminals formalism that interpolates old-fashioned plot devices (a missing girl, a cryptic phone number, an epicene serial killer, a corrupt mayor) into a Borgesian web of forking paths and gleeful McGuffins, ultimately deriving its primary tension not from the vulgarity of corporeal harm - though there's plenty of that both off-screen and on - but from a lust for inductive discovery that, at most times, refuses to teeter on the precipice of genre cliché.Jung-ho (Kim Yoon-suk, an intriguingly complex anti-hero), is a disgraced ex-cop who has turned his hand to pimping and now runs a stable of girls in Seoul's red-light district. When his escorts keep disappearing, Jung-ho suspects the worst, unaware that he has just sent his best girl Mi-jin straight into the hands of creepy serial killer Young-min (Jung-woo Ha making a deliciously wicked sociopath). When he realizes his mistake, Jung-ho tracks down the killer, but Mi-jin is nowhere to be seen. Worse, the police can't hold Young-min without evidence, so Jung-ho uses his old sleuthing skills to frantically search for Mi-jin – not knowing whether she's alive or dead. Yoon-suk approaches the ensuing chick-hunt with vaguely frustrated amusement, as though he can't quite entirely believe his career has been reduced to the fretful need for sellable bodies, and even after learning of his chattel's grisly resting place, he expresses compassion like a fleeting form of emotional exhaustion.To say anything more would be a sin, since the story unfolds with the kind of unexpected twists you won't see coming. 'The Chaser' lets loose with a jolt every few minutes, from a gross-out torture sequence to the death of an innocent that leaves us gasping. However, in between moments of chisel-hacking horror, there is some impressively dark humor and top-notch acting. But be warned – emotionally this movie will reach deep into the pit of your stomach and wriggle your guts about before wrenching them out. Just as the lead character avoids the soft pain of sympathy by remaining passionate about his seedy profession, Hong-Jin Na reserves his cheeky ardor for subtle displays of craftsmanship. His superb direction ensures that the film remains suspenseful on a number of different levels, by sustaining an atmosphere of rhythmically festering futility without the possibility of facile redemption.The Chaser is a superbly directed, thoroughly gripping and morally twisted crime thriller that's worth every minute of your time!

Adam Peters (68%) A super gritty cat and mouse horror/thriller that's as engrossing as it is unpredictable. The performance from Kim Yoon-seok as the film's good guy hunting for evidence in the tough streets of Seoul, while at the same time he's a sleazy pimp meaning the blend between good and bad is never quite crystal clear; although the bad guy is 100% evil and make no mistake. In terms of violence there are a couple of scenes that are very grim to watch, but actually most of the killings take place off-screen, while it's the oppressive feel and painful turn of events that make this a memorable piece. Anyone with a fondness for harder-edged, tough, dark thrillers should certainly track this one down.