The Chaser is thrilling and endlessly inventive during its two hour runtime.

Full Review | Oct 3, 2019

The Chaser's screenplay makes its aim the revelation of social conditions which allowed these crimes, and others like it, to occur.

| May 7, 2019

You're still going to get the chases, the violence, and the dark tone you would expect, but all of that is rooted in reality and drama making The Chaser come very close to the neo-noir genre.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 30, 2019

"The Chaser" is one of the greatest samples of contemporary Korean cinema and one of the best entries in the crime thriller genre.

| Apr 6, 2019

With its erratic pacing and sadistic hero, what starts as an intriguing procedural quickly descends into a tenuous game of cat-and-mouse that is buoyed up by frequent gut-churning violence.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 4, 2018

...finds its tonal footing in the final third, when Jung-ho makes the transition from darkly comic clown to film-noir anti-hero.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 11, 2013

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| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 26, 2010

I've more or less had it with this stuff, but the film is distinguished by the grubby velocity of his foot chases, and the effectiveness of its craft (not to mention the unglamorous resolution of at least one character's fate).

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 4, 2010

Easily the best cop thriller since The Departed.

| Feb 2, 2010

The Chaser is an expert serial-killer film from South Korea and a poster child for what a well-made thriller looked like in the classic days.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 28, 2010

A gritty, stylish crime thriller that's initially suspenseful and compelling, but eventually becomes pedestrian, unsurprising, preposterous and even somewhat tedious.

| Original Score: 5.5/10 | Dec 31, 2009

The pessimism of Na's slick debut rings false.

| Dec 30, 2009

A sizzling film noir that evokes the disillusionment of a once self-confident "tiger" economy.

| Dec 30, 2009

Unlike the directors of Infernal Affairs, Hong-Jin refreshingly fuels his philosophical engine with montage.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 30, 2009

South Korean first-timer Na Hong-jin offers nasty thrills, manic foot chases and some genuinely subversive riffs on the police procedural.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 30, 2009

Uma obra madura e complexa que insiste em desafiar as idias pr-concebidas do espectador do incio ao fim.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 15, 2009

It's hard out here for a detective turned pimp in the thrilling import The Chaser

| Original Score: 3/5.4 | Jun 15, 2009

It runs long at over two hours but it is expertly directed, shot, edited, and acted.

| Jun 12, 2009

shifts its tone effortlessly between white-knuckle suspense and investigatory drama

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 29, 2009

An impotent thriller about an insane serial killer, incompetent cops and an irritating overweight sweaty pimp.

| Original Score: C | May 2, 2009