For me, Carter feels like a Hardcore Henry re-mix, with a Korean flavour.

This is run and gun, beat em, cut em up, style of film, with a video game vibe. It worked with Hardcore Henry but somehow this one just doesn't quite pull it off.

I think part of the reason for that is unlike Hardcore Henry, its not quite as well paced or polished. Its back story is a bit thin too, not really adding much to the proposition. The result feels somewhat aimless and a little bland.

In short, moderately watchable but fizzles when it needs to burn.

Carter (or rather: Kato)

tries to present itself as a one-shot-film, but it is not quite the Korean Hardcore Henry. There is little effort hiding the supposedly invisible cuts, of which there are *many*. The ever-flying shaky camera drone is busy, as are the very dedicated stunt people, and the soros of CGI.

The plot is... and illogical mix of something even C-grade video games wouldn't dare to use; the upside of which is that it is unpredictable.
Three secret agencies, an coup, implanted devices, fast Zombies, save-the-daughter, some Total Recall, Indiana Jones, and Blood Red Sky, with a hint of Extraction and James Bond.

Bullet-proof pigs I'm OK with, infinite ammo magazines we all know - but flea-like zombies, the free fall fight, and the CGI fires are hilarious. Or bad, depending on your expectations.

Apply *plenty* Suspension of Disbelief to be entertained.


Warning, not suitable for fragile Americans: Aside from lots of gory violence, there's also brief frontal nudity, and we know you're easily scared by asian genitalia.

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Ok - so there's good news and bad news about this one.
The bad first. I personally am very tired of the shaky-cam shtick. It's over-used and just plain annoying. Just cut it out already. A lot of the drone footage might make some people queezy. It did me, and i don't get motion sick. There is nothing but wall-to-wall action here. Like zero downtime. I know, some might see that as a good thing.
Now the good. Wowza! Non-stop action. Is the whole movie far-fetched, unbelievable, fantastical? Yes - but that's what makes it so much fun. This movie is like if Jason Bourne and John Wick had a baby and then we tossed in a bunch of zombies as well. It's that kind of frenetic. I would say that like 90% of the stunts/effects are practical (RL) with very little CGI in there. The whole thing is shot in such a way that it looks and feels like it is one continuous shot (which is not an easy thing to do).
The Koreans are truly becoming one of the leading story-tellers in movies and TV.

How I rate:
1-3 :heart: = seriously! don't waste your time
4-6 :heart: = you may or may not enjoy this
7-8 :heart: = I expect you will like this too
9-10 :heart: = movies and TV shows I really love!

Sometimes it's nice to see directors experimenting with new ideas, trying new techniques to offer something original to the audience. But when the director clearly doesn't have the means and the capabilities, it makes the movie an unwatchable and **unpleasant** experience. Especially an unpleasant experience.

This low quality garbage CG morphing used to trick you into thinking that the movie was shot in a single take actually has the opposite effect. You are watching a fight scene, you're captured into the action, you feel inside the movie and than the camera starts moving in an unnatural way, the images get all stretched, there's jittering, the action pauses for a few milliseconds... It's distracting, nauseating. Unpleasant as I said before.

It's like listening to a song where the CD skips every 30 seconds. Can you listen to the song? Yes. Is it pleasant though?

After the airplane scene I just skipped all the action scenes. I just watched the "story" parts of the movie. [spoiler] Saving Ha na and his father at the lab, when he gets his memories back and the sh*t ending [/spoiler]
And it wasn't worth it either. Story sucks too.

Who? Who thought this movie was ok to release to the public? I guess since it's a Netflix original, anything is ok to increase the catalog.
I'm done with anything produced by Netflix. If Netflix is the future of movies, than the movies are dead.