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.
"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.
Carter is 2022 thriller movie directed by Jung Byung-gil starring Won Joo.
Movie description: A man wakes up with no memory of anything. Jung Byung-gil has managed to put together a thriller with loads of action, special effects, and in particular the characteristic hypnotic touch of Asian action movies, which is always engaging. ‘Carter’ lives up to all those criteria, and for added value it also has an intelligent script, and it terribly close to living up to the standards of a Chirstopher Nolan film, which is a tall order.
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Ahead of the 2022 season — which could potentially be his last — Carter wants to show he can be that player. “I just think they kind of downplay me a little bit,” Carter said. “I needed to apologize for, I guess, being distracted and not being all in,” Carter told the News & Observer. “I just feel like recognizing your faults can gain respect. “I feel like last year was probably my most inconsistent season,” Carter said. I recognize it, that’s the first thing you’re supposed to do and not run from it. Just after that 31-30 loss, the N.C. State wide receiver took to Twitter and apologized.
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Instead, the Good Doctor actor was directly made into a killing machine that knows what it is doing without his memories. The movie has numerous physics-defying action scenes that we just can’t come to accept and made this movie almost feel like a waste of time. It is evident that the actors have put a lot of effort into the movie, but the dizzying camera work and the ending have really put me off. The movie begins with a man in a motel room who wakes up to find the CIA trying to catch him. The only thing he knows is the instructions given by a voice that takes him on a dangerous mission to rescue a girl. As the movie proceeds, the man is unable to defy the voice in his head until he is able to get rid of the bomb.
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Because a movie well-edited is one where the work of the editor is almost inconspicuous. As Carter rampages through an endless onslaught of enemies, the pseudo-oner makes a sorry attempt to convey the doggedness of one man in the face of overwhelming adversity. But in the case of Carter, the trickery is so blatantly obvious we are deprived of even that pleasure. Byung-gil does possess the acumen and appreciation for the form, and he understands the strength of choreography is vital to its pacing and thrills. In a race against the clock, he must rescue the girl and reclaim his identity, while a swarm of CIA, South Korean and North Korean agents come after him. The shorter version: there is an amnesiac who defies every law of physics, a young girl used as a human prop, a North Korean coup, and a potential zombie invasion. This is quite the lapse for Jung Byung-gil, the South Korean filmmaker whose previous movie The Villainess was a visceral maelstrom of incident and choreography. Not that the visibility of the artifice is the only issue here. The illusion works as long as the movie holds a firm grip on the viewer and its editorial seams aren't showing. Leave it to the streaming giant and its mix-and-match algorithm to take the one-shot movie and gimmick it up to 11. Egregious abuse of the green screen gives a jarring artificiality to the settings of the action set pieces. Yet, even the illusion can make for a great hook, as there is an inherent sense of urgency and suspense the conceit brings with its uncut drama.
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Save it right here and put it on the internet. Carter said he had the Bills "in my heart." You can see game film running on the screen behind them.
Jung Byung-gil's Carter is a dizzying action film about one man trying to save the world with no memory and no time.
A homogenous-looking and exhausting spectacle, Carter does very little right in a film that seems more ambitious than it really is. Here he doubles down on the amount of mobility that was present in The Villainess. The camerawork is compelling in these sequences and there’s a good mix of hand-to-hand and dangerous driving that receives great coverage – the problem is that it never really looks good in motion. Save for the motorcycle sequences that do have some inspired moments in them, Carter’s biggest problem is that it tries to do so much narratively without actually having anything to say. It’s all needlessly convoluted and whenever Carter attempts to slow down and explain it, it’s more of a headache than it’s worth. It’s all a familiar set up dressed to the nines by Jung and co-writer Jung Byeong-sik, setting Carter’s protagonist in the middle of a global crisis where only he can save the world. With its influences innumerable and obvious, Jung’s latest film delivers some dizzying action amidst an undercooked, familiar story of espionage and backdoor politics mired in risky decisions that rarely work.
Kyle Lowry tried to recruit Vince Carter to rejoin the Toronto Raptors, nearly 15 years after his much-discussed departure from the team.
I was one of the biggest advocates of trying to get him back in Toronto.” “I was one of the biggest advocates to try to get him back to Toronto. Vince was all in. “Just so everyone knows, we were trying to get that done,” Lowry continued.
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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.
This review of the South Korean Netflix film Carter (2022) does not contain spoilers. In the midst of a pandemic, Carter wakes up in a room with no clue.
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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Carter never ended up being bought out by the Kings that season and went on to play two more seasons with the Hawks before returning in 2020. ... We was working on trying to get that done." "I tried to get Vince back with us," Lowry said during a conversation with Carter on The VC Show. "I was one of the biggest advocates to try to get him back in Toronto and Vince was all in.
The two Toronto Raptors legends chatted on Carter's podcast Thursday.
He also said on the podcast with Carter that there is no doubt he’ll retire as a Toronto Raptor, something he’s mentioned in the past. “And Vince was all in.” “But I tried to get Vince back with us (the Raptors) at one point.
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The rookie signal-caller knew he likely could have bought the number from Carter but chose not to make an offer. The 22-year-old isn't expected to be named Atlanta's starting quarterback in 2022 with the addition of Marcus Mariota, but he could be the franchise's starter at some point in the future. Ridder said he messaged linebacker Lorenzo Carter after the draft to ask if he'd be willing to give up No. 9, but he turned Ridder down.
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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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In the end, all six were convicted of various crimes related to the harassment of Taylor and police corruption related to the so-called private investigation funded by Carter. Carter and Akele Taylor were in the middle of a breakup and bitter custody fight over their young daughter in 2012 and 2013. A Calgary businessman and retired police officer who were convicted of harassing a woman in an effort to keep her from gaining custody of her daughter have been found not guilty of perjury.
Lawyers for the two accused argued there was no reason or evidence to show they had conspired to mislead the custody-hearing judge.
To lie would endanger the very thing he sought,” Labrenz said. Carter paid Walton and his wife, Heather, more than $800,000 to conduct surveillance on Taylor following the couple’s bitter split two years earlier. Article content
Lawyers for the two defendants argued that there was no reason or evidence to show that they conspired to mislead the custody trial judge. date of issue:.
It didn’t convince me, based on what I came here to learn, I’m hiring them,” Lavrenz said. “It makes little sense, on the one hand, for Mr. Carter to perjure himself when he decides to accept the court’s parenting expert recommendation. Article content
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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.
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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.