This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

This movie is simply ridiculous, then nothing in it is believable, unless in South Korea everybody is just plain stupid.It's about police officers behaving like children, doing nothing right and yelling at each other all the time. The only likable character is the victim, who happens to be stupid as well. She gets severely beaten in the head with a big hammer, and yet she miraculously survives, escapes and... gets killed with a hammer.And it's about a very unlikable protagonist, who beats the sh*t out of a serial killer, who every time stands up and walks as if nothing happened.Lot's of violence and blood. And nothing else.

Hi everyone. So at first this movie seemed great. Solid acting, good opening, nice pacing, and then after about 30 minutes in the movie makes a turn for the worst.The entire last hour and a half of the movie are ridiculous, completely unbelievable garbage. The main killer is caught, and get this...for no reason at all...they free him almost immediately. It literally makes no sense at all. In the movie they act as if there is no proof of his deeds, although there is heaps of proof. They collected DNA evidence, they found that he beat a kid with a hammer three years prior, the way he conducted the murders matches the case descriptions exactly, he stole a car and he has called all of the missing girls.I was so angry at the end of the movie. I just wasted two hours with a movie about catching a brutal killer...he is caught...and then...lets just set him free to kill yet again in his unpatrolled empty neighborhood in broad daylight and then he walks back home to bury more dead bodies. RIDICULOUS!!!If you want to waste two hours with a ridiculous story about a murderer being treated like a princess, watch this.

There are a handful of moments in The Chaser – the feature-length debut of Korean director Na Hong-Jin - that tease its audience with smirking conventionality: We watch a sweet but sickly prostitute traipse into the proverbial lion's den and a good-natured but worldly pimp extemporaneously take an orphaned girl under his wing and we momentarily feel the film slipping from its director's control. The slipperiness, however, eventually defines the movie's milieu. The Chaser is a clever riff on cops-and-criminals formalism that interpolates old-fashioned plot devices (a missing girl, a cryptic phone number, an epicene serial killer, a corrupt mayor) into a Borgesian web of forking paths and gleeful McGuffins, ultimately deriving its primary tension not from the vulgarity of corporeal harm - though there's plenty of that both off-screen and on - but from a lust for inductive discovery that, at most times, refuses to teeter on the precipice of genre cliché.Jung-ho (Kim Yoon-suk, an intriguingly complex anti-hero), is a disgraced ex-cop who has turned his hand to pimping and now runs a stable of girls in Seoul's red-light district. When his escorts keep disappearing, Jung-ho suspects the worst, unaware that he has just sent his best girl Mi-jin straight into the hands of creepy serial killer Young-min (Jung-woo Ha making a deliciously wicked sociopath). When he realizes his mistake, Jung-ho tracks down the killer, but Mi-jin is nowhere to be seen. Worse, the police can't hold Young-min without evidence, so Jung-ho uses his old sleuthing skills to frantically search for Mi-jin – not knowing whether she's alive or dead. Yoon-suk approaches the ensuing chick-hunt with vaguely frustrated amusement, as though he can't quite entirely believe his career has been reduced to the fretful need for sellable bodies, and even after learning of his chattel's grisly resting place, he expresses compassion like a fleeting form of emotional exhaustion.To say anything more would be a sin, since the story unfolds with the kind of unexpected twists you won't see coming. 'The Chaser' lets loose with a jolt every few minutes, from a gross-out torture sequence to the death of an innocent that leaves us gasping. However, in between moments of chisel-hacking horror, there is some impressively dark humor and top-notch acting. But be warned – emotionally this movie will reach deep into the pit of your stomach and wriggle your guts about before wrenching them out. Just as the lead character avoids the soft pain of sympathy by remaining passionate about his seedy profession, Hong-Jin Na reserves his cheeky ardor for subtle displays of craftsmanship. His superb direction ensures that the film remains suspenseful on a number of different levels, by sustaining an atmosphere of rhythmically festering futility without the possibility of facile redemption.The Chaser is a superbly directed, thoroughly gripping and morally twisted crime thriller that's worth every minute of your time!

Watching a movie with such a high score, and more a Corean movie that is not the average movie that everyone likes, rises expectations a lot. I learnt that I can't trust the scores any more, and I got disappointed again. I get the point of the movie, as it seems to be the incompetence of the police department. Also showing how unfair can be life and full of injustice. This isn't new in cinema and doesn't make this movie good. Two hours of nonsensical running around dumb characters is too much to make a point, and there's nothing more than that. I can't remember a good character that I enjoyed from this movie. No one seem to do anything logical, except for the last minute deduction from the pimp, which wasn't anything spectacular in terms of story. No development in any of the characters, just overacted reactions all the time and jumping around like monkeys. Some good photographic moments don't save this movie for me, not even the really cool weapon cards that come with the DVD.Fair story, poor writing/passing, fair acting, good photography. I wouldn't recommend it, also it's far too long.