2022 · action · thriller · crime
Carter
Directed by Jung Byung-gil2h 12m2022
Carter, who awakens two months into a deadly pandemic originating from the DMZ that has already devastated US and North Korea. He who has no recollections of his past finds a mysterious device in his head, and a lethal bomb in his mouth. A voice in his ears gives him orders to avoid getting killed and he's thrown into a mysterious operation while the CIA and North Korean coup chase him close.
Our read: Carter (2022) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive action · thriller · crime entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / thriller, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- inventive
- cold
- epic-stakes
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