Project Wolf Hunting Review Korean Horror Brings Bruckheimeresque Bombast
If you had a pound for every severed vein and perforated skull in this Korean horror movie , it would probably exceed your entire movie budget. Apparently, most of that money was spent on fake blood supplies, enough to power the fog system on Frontier Titan, the roughly 58,000-ton cargo ship that sails between the Philippines and South Korea in Kim Hong's film.
Forget about air conditioning. It's the Sea of Kun, where martial cop Seok-woo (Park Ho-sang) is tasked with repatriating a number of dirty fugitives. Among the villains is Jung Do (Seo In Guk), a bully with boy band looks and a tattoo on his jaw, whom Suk Woo beats up when he threatens his daughter. It doesn't take a PhD to understand that criminals don't last long in handcuffs. But, hidden from all but the doctor, who hides in the basement, they are not the only burden of the Border Titan. Suffice it to say that shipping this thing in the same boat as Korea's Most Wanted is an action movie alongside that nuclear plant and spider farm meme.
Kim gets into early fights and walks around with Bruckheimerian blowouts that have become a forgotten art in Hollywood. It makes decent use of the ship setting, although spreading the mayhem around a disaster movie-style ensemble rather than a single main character means the tension is a bit diffuse. The real hero is the brutal killing spree carried out by a large number of goons before a third party intervenes. If you want to see a man killed with his bare hands, you've come to the right place.
The carnage starts to become monotonous, but the film picks up in the final third, when enemies arrive to confront Cellar Boy, including innocent criminal Doyle (Jang Dong-yeon), and Kim makes several belated revelations. By then, the Die Hard-esque show had long since given way to pure splatterhouse, but what a taste for a B movie.