Project wolf hunting

The rise in prominence and influence of Korean television series on Korean pop cinema has never been more apparent than in “Project Wolf Hunting,” a horror-tinged prison break thriller set on a cargo ship. In “Project Wolf Hunting,” a considerable ensemble cast of leering prisoners and square-jawed guards first stab and shoot at each other, then try to not be gouged or dismembered in turn by a mysterious, super-strong monster. As in a number of would-be franchises, the door is inevitably left open for a sequel. And as in a few TV series that have been disproportionately blown up to suit a feature-length production, there’s way more perfunctory bloodletting than you might expect or need. Yes, I know, it’s me saying that. Somehow, “Project Wolf Hunting” is not based on a television series. I thought it might be given how many speaking parts it has. Also, the movie’s unabashed too-much-ness can sometimes be attractive, especially if you enjoy made-for- or adapted-from-TV productions, and therefore hope for a few moments of eccentric charm instead of any kind of sustained dramatic tension. Instead, “Project Wolf Hunting” is a sluggish, by-the-numbers body count flick that too often looks like an overproduced video game—the movie’s press release compares it to a “Capcom survival-horror video game”—as it’s played by a distracted, button-mashing Twitch streamer. Believe me when I say that I wanted to love “Project Wolf Hunting,” especially given its creators’ preference for atmos...

By This article is part of our coverage of the Technological advances have been a boon to the world at large and filmmaking in particular in many, many ways. CG blood is not one of those ways, so when a movie comes along delivering most of its copious bloodletting via practical effects? Well those arterial sprays are geysers worth celebrating. To that end, few films in recent memory are as gleefully free with their showers, splashes, and sprays of fake blood as the new South Korean action/horror hybrid, Project Wolf Hunting. Think Con Air reimagined as a horror film with the action and violence dialed up to eleven, and you’ll be in the right mindset for this brutally entertaining ride. South Korea and the Philippines have set up a prisoner swap with violent felons being sent back to their respective countries. Putting that many horrible people in one place is bound to be dangerous, though, so the idea is hatched to board the Koreans onto a cargo ship and sail them back home under strict guard by an equal number of police officers. Things go expectedly sideways once they’re out on the open ocean, and soon escaped convicts are slaughtering their captors with giddy abandon. They’re forced to rethink thinks, though, when a stowaway awakes and starts making mincemeat of them all. Project Wolf Hunting may be a corny title — one character even says as much — but the film means bloody business. Writer/director Kim Hong-seon throws various cinematic inspirations into a blender, add...

While under heavily armed guard, the dangerous convicts aboard a cargo ship unite in a coordinated escape attempt that soon escalates into a bloody, all-out riot. But as the fugitives continue their brutal campaign of terror, they soon discover that not even the most vicious among them is safe from the horror they unknowingly unleashed from the darkness below deck.

When I first read about the new Project Wolf Hunting, Con Air on a boat.” So… Con Boat. And that is 100% accurate for about a third of the film. Eventually though, the film gets taken over, quite literally, by something much more sinister, and the results are very bloody on screen, but also quite messy off it. From director Kim Hong-sun, Project Wolf Hunting kicks off by introducing some of the most ruthless fugitives wanted in South Korea. They’ve been apprehended in the Philippines and are being transferred back due to a new treaty. Dozens and dozens of police officers put the criminals on a massive cargo boat while listing their long rap sheets, which feature some truly awful crimes like rape and murder, all the way down the line. This all happens in a very propulsive, 1990s action movie manner, Of course, the film would be rather boring if things just went according to plan. So we learn that several of the supposed police officers are actually moles and they soon begin to wreak havoc. Once the action starts, it doesn’t stop, with all manner of bloody gun and knife violence that reaches such an absurd level of gore, at times the blood actually sounds like a shower. Except it’s blood dripping, not water. Truly, you may never see a bloodier movie, and things are just getting started. The criminals think they have it all figured out except, well, they don’t. What I’m going to say next about Project Wolf Hunting isn’t exactly a spoiler because it’s actually the true plot of...

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During transport from the Philippines to South Korea, a group of dangerous criminals unites to stage a coordinated escape attempt. As the jailbreak escalates into a bloody, all-out riot, the fugitives and their allies from the outside exact a brutal terror campaign against the special agents onboard the ship. Show More • Genre: Action, Mystery & thriller • Original Language: Korean • Director: • Producer: • Writer: • Release Date (Theaters): Oct 7, 2022 limited • Runtime: 2h 2m • Distributor: Well Go USA Entertainment

I f you had a pound for every slashed jugular and staved-in cranium in this Korean horror-thriller, you would probably have more than the film’s entire budget. This seems to have been mostly spent on supplies of fake blood almost copious enough to run the sprinkler system on Frontier Titan, the 58,000-tonne cargo ship travelling between the Philippines and Forget Con Air; this is Con Sea, with bruiser cop Seok-woo (Park Ho-san) in charge of escorting a dirty dozen or so fugitives back to the motherland. First among evils is Jong-doo (Seo In-guk), a rapist with boyband looks and tattoos up to his jawline, who earns an early beating from Seok-woo after threatening his daughter. It doesn’t take a doctorate in whup-ass studies to guess that the criminals don’t stay in handcuffs for long. But – unbeknown to all but the doctor who keeps sneaking down to the basement – they are not Frontier Titan’s only cargo. Suffice it to say that transporting this thing on the same ship as Korea’s most wanted is the action-movie equivalent of that meme about the nuclear power plant and the spider farm being next to each other. Kim sets up the early square-offs and hijacking with the kind of Bruckheimerian bombast that is becoming a lost art in Hollywood. He makes decent use of the ship’s layout – though spreading the mayhem around a disaster-movie-style ensemble, rather than a single protagonist, means the tension is somewhat diffused. The real main character is gratuitous carnage, already amp...

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Project Wolf Hunting is like 20 insane midnight movies crammed into one blood-slathered package, and each one rules. Kim Hong-seon writes and directs one of the bloodiest action spectacles since Tokyo Gore Police or Rambo, defying human biology in ways that'd be too indulgent even for the thirstiest vampires. Once the first kill pops in this action-horror frenzy, the fun don't stop. The official website for Beyond Fest (where Project Wolf Hunting was screened for this review) beats me to the punch by dubbing it "Con Air meets Under Siege meets Resident Evil meets Universal Soldiers," but let's try my own. Project Wolf Hunting is Con Air meets Predator meets Nemesis from Resident Evil meets Overlord meets Tokyo Gore Police meets [REC] 4: Apocalypse. There, that's the Donato formula. Korean criminals being extradited from the Philippines back to South Korean soil for judgment are routed to a freighter vessel after air travel is deemed too dangerous. On their last leg of duty before welcome homecomings, law enforcement is to accompany a double-digits clan of wrangled evildoers meant to stay in custody. Before we're adequately introduced to handcuffed future inmates and exhausted detectives, deadly mayhem breaks loose when stowaway mercenaries release tattooed uber-villain Jong-du (Seo In-guk) — prisoners now roam free, and the remaining officers are under attack. If there's one qualm about Project Wolf Hunting, it's the meat-grinder nature of events that doesn't care to chara...