Carter Netflix

2022 - 8 - 6

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Carter review: Netflix's new movie puts action above all else (The Verge)

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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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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Of all the insane action stunt work scenes, the one that stood out for me is the fight sequence around 50 minutes into the movie that starts with the kidnapping of a child from a man on a motorcycle. Ultimately, the film is a perfect example of modern action cinema gone awry. Action works best when in service to the plot. This nearly 7-minute sequence culminates in several motorcycles blowing up all at once. The movie seems to be fascinated or preoccupied with certain elements that, by themselves, could have been an interesting backdrop or subtext to the main plot. Between drone shot transitions & rotating tracking shots, the cinematography feels like the scenes between missions in certain First Person Shooter games.

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Carter is a case study in efficiency, trapped in the guise of an exceptional brawler. Much like its lead, the film looks and moves too much like a bullet out of hell to care. But Jung’s primary task isn’t to make a Russian Ark of action but instead a reason for Hardcore Henry to jolt.