Carter (2022)

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This week, Trevor embarks on a solo review of Jung Byung-gil's, Carter (2022)!

Currently a Netflix exclusive, Carter is a bombastic and over the top Korean action film that is shot and edited to feel like a single-continuous shot.

Packed from end to end with less than stellar green screen work, and disruptive, digitally assisted match cuts, the films core gimmick often times feels like its greatest liability.

Anarchic, both in terms of its utter disregard for traditional cinematic visual language, and in terms of its internal logic in regards to the physics of its action design, Carter is a bold experiment in action cinema that's novelty greatly outweighs its entertainment value.

Occasionally displaying flickers of brilliance in its action choreography and camera placement, the ragged, unpolished nature of Carter's editing and general visual clarity unfortunately result in a frustrating experience that finds the viewer constantly wanting to discard the one-shot concept in favor of a more traditional cinematic.

Overlong, relentlessly stupid, and yet somehow po-faced affair, Carter unfortunately only manages to succeed in delivering thrilling momentsamid all the noise and chaos across its multitude of action set pieces.

An action film that will find itself, in this reviewer's opinion; without a single blu-ray chapter devoid of some form of frustration or disappointment, Carter is a praise-worthy effort that's overall quality fails to match the enthusiasm and boldness of its production crew.

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