Carter

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Korean star Joo Won stars in Netflix's new action showpiece Carter, which is streaming on August 5th and puts fast-paced spectacle at the forefront.

The pervasiveness of technology — the film takes this very literally, through the embedded electronics in Carter’s body — reverberates with relevance. The film also raises questions about identity and the information war through Carter’s loss of memory. As the film breathlessly moves from a public bathhouse to a bus, warehouse, medical facility, clothes shop, and airplane, just to name a few, the “single take” style gives Carter a feeling of vastness in space that few action films have been able to achieve. One of the biggest talking points of Carter is the “single take” style that it was shot in. Unfortunately, each of them is only lightly used (with the exception of young Ha-na); they exit as quickly as they enter, leaving viewers to rue the missed opportunities to deepen the film’s storytelling and character arcs. However, Doctor Jung (Jung Jae-young) and Ha-na (Kim Bo-min) go missing during a transfer arrangement to North Korea, where the doctor was supposed to further his research and mass-produce a cure for the virus at the Sinuiju Chemical Weapons Institute. There, crowds of infected North Korean patients are also held in quarantine.

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"Carter" has been written and directed by Byung-Gil Jung and co-written by Byeong-sik Jung. Joo Won plays the protagonist, Carter, in the film.

Carter would have to trust his instincts and take a leap of faith whenever required, because his brain, his memories, and everything that he thought to be his reality was nothing but a fabricated truth. He was the leader of the coup in North Korea. He knew that he could use the situation to his advantage. Carter and Han Jung Hee, Yoon Hee, Dr. Jung and Ha-na escape the facility and run to save their life. Han Jung Hee, the voice in Carter’s ear, was the North Korean spy, who was told to keep an eye on him when he came to the country as a journalist. He was trying to escape North Korea with Han Jung Hee and his daughter when Kim Hyeok came with the forces and stopped him midway. He was giving her an offer to save Carter and her daughter, in return for her allegiance to him. One of them had got a call from Kim Jong, who ordered to keep Carter alive, though he was unaware that Carter had already killed everybody there and was coming for him. Carter’s mission was now complete, and as promised by the North Korean government, his memory was to be given back to him once Ha-na was in their possession. The molar was a kind of explosive device, and as soon as the CIA took the teeth out of his mouth, it exploded. The mission given to Carter was to find and bring Ha-na to North Korea. One more revelation is made by Jung Hee that totally shocks Carter. The mission had been proposed by Carter himself, who had told them to block his memory. Was he working for the North or the South? It was still a mystery. Jung Hee tells him that he used to be a CIA agent from South Korea. He camouflaged his identity and entered North Korea as a journalist.

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In fact, it is actively disappointing early on, and positively maddening by the time our protagonist is having a mid-air shootout with a cackling villain. But while 1917 was stitched together from a handful of extended sequences by masking the cuts, Boiling Point was actually filmed in one take. This isn’t the first time that a filmmaker has attempted to create this illusion on screen.

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The body count is almost certainly higher than the number of lines of dialogue spoken. Pummelling the audience with constant, intense action makes us eventually numb to what we're watching, and left me feeling that some more down time and dialogue would have helped me care about the characters and appreciate the fight scenes even more. The screenplay, written by the director with Jung Byeongsik, is minimal. At one point Carter shoots his way through various enemies while rolling around in the back of a truck filled with grunting pigs; in another scene he hangs from a disintegrating rope bridge, Indiana Jones-style, casually shooting zombies (yes, zombies) attacking from both sides. The whole scene is dizzying, fantastically choreographed, ultra-violent, and impressively filmed. The opening sequence of the Netflix film should give you a pretty clear idea about whether or not it'll be your cup of tea.

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The hand-to-hand combat sequences, for example, were pretty well choreographed, but because of how little you got to see thanks to the way the film was edited, they were absolutely wasted. In the midst of a pandemic, Carter wakes up in a room with no clue as to who he is or how he got there. The cuts were not edited anywhere near well enough to hide them, and it was very distracting throughout the whole film.

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Those with weaker stomachs might not like the gore and violence, though, which takes up a vast majority of the screen time. His motivations are murky and his motive unclear, but, at the same time, he is risking his life for this mission. But because he lost his memories and does not remember his daughter and wife, this does not work emotionally. Through exposition, the viewer becomes acutely aware that this virus came less than a year before North and South Korea agreed to a cease-fire, but then everything falls apart when the doctor goes missing. There is a push and pull between Carter being an American agent who went rogue in North Korea then another woman coming to tell him that his real name is Michael Bane. Meanwhile, at the movie's beginning, Carter is informed by North Koreans he had a wife and a kid in North Korea and that he was a hero to their people. American soldiers returning home from deployment in Korea are the source of the outbreak in North America, but this is not a movie focusing on the United States. As the camera shifts away from the people on the bus and into an abandoned area, another television report, this time Korean, informs the audience a doctor who cured his daughter of the virus has gone missing. It does not need an excuse to focus on the story too much, but, instead, the extended fight sequences are edited to look like they happen in a single take. The very first fight scene takes the word bloodbath literally, putting Carter into a massive fight against what seems to be a hundred men in a bathhouse. She now gives him instructions on what to do and where to go, lest he dies from a bomb implanted in his mouth, and along the way, he discovers that he worked for North Korea, his wife died of the virus, and now he needs to help North Korea get the treatments ready for the disease before it is too late. With his bed and floor coated in blood, the people on the bus storm in and demand why he kidnapped the doctor. The movie does not go into detail about why exactly this is the case but establishes an urgency as to why she needs to get to North Korea right now. With a run time of one hundred and thirty-two minutes, Carter is a wild, illogical ride all the way through.

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It seems that the lack of clarity really pushes the film further away from materializing into a consistent, substance-led narrative. He answers it and the voice commands him to give it to one of the members. Clearly, something is on as he fights off hundreds of criminals and assassins to do what the voice tells him to do. We aren’t too sure what to make of him in that regard. The manner in which it manifests, though, does not spring a lot of surprises but plays a defining role in shaping Carter’s background. Woeful execution, a hollow core, and a lack of organization and direction lead to its downfall.