Ex-cop pimp Jung-ho is irritated because his girls keep disappearing without clearing their debts. One night, he gets a call from a customer and sends Mi-jin. Jung-ho realizes the phone number of the customer matches that of the calls the missing girls got last. As something smells fishy, he searches for her. During his search, Jung-ho dents a car in the alley. When Jung-ho spots blood splattered on the driver’s shirt, he senses the man, Young-min, is the suspect. After an intense chase, Jung-ho catches Young-min. But because of Jung-ho’s pretense as a cop, they are both taken to the police station. At the station, the man bluntly confesses he has killed the missing women, and the last girl, Mi-jin, may still be alive. As the whole police force is obsessed with a random search for corpses, Jung-ho is the only one who believes Mi-jin is still alive. With only 12 hours left to detain the serial killer without a warrant, Jung-ho’s hunt begins, searching for Mi-jin entrapped in a place nobody knows.
My comments:
I felt uncomfortable and had chills after watching The Chaser; it's a brutal, dark, gritty and violent thriller. It's not that violent in the bloody sense but a lot of things are implied and that's what makes it chilly. It's interesting that both lead characters are unlikable. Young Min being the villain is just detestable right from the beginning but Jung Ho is character that you don't really want to root because he's not heroic at all and he's responsible for Mi Jin's tragedy. However, you still wish that he can find evidences to capture Young-Min. I thought that the director will give us a little hope about poor Mi Jin but he had burst our little bubble. It was sad! Sigh...
I'm usually not that smart on goofs and flaws but I found this little mistake they made: Young Min injured this hand and was bleeding when he tried to hammer his victim but when he got out of the police station, his hand didn't have a single scratch...err...
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