2014 · thriller · action
The Target
Directed by Chang1h 38m2014
At the same time as murder suspect Yeo-hoon is brought unconscious to the emergency room following a shooting incident, an assailant breaks into the house of Tae-jun, the emergency room's doctor in charge, and kidnaps his wife. The kidnapper calls the doctor and tells him to bring Yeo-hoon to him. To retrieve his wife, Tae-jun has no option but to save the patient and sneak him away before the police can notice.
Our read: The Target (2014) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded thriller · action entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme thriller / action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
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