{"id":481626,"date":"2022-08-06T02:40:39","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T23:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/carter-finds-an-enormous-divide-between-ambition-and-execution\/"},"modified":"2022-08-06T02:40:39","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T23:40:39","slug":"carter-finds-an-enormous-divide-between-ambition-and-execution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/carter-finds-an-enormous-divide-between-ambition-and-execution\/","title":{"rendered":"#&#8217;Carter&#8217; Finds an Enormous Divide Between Ambition and Execution"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2f0bd1438bc\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2f0bd1438bc\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/carter-finds-an-enormous-divide-between-ambition-and-execution\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Carter_Finds_an_Enormous_Divide_Between_Ambition_and_Execution%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Carter&#8217; Finds an Enormous Divide Between Ambition and Execution&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Carter_Finds_an_Enormous_Divide_Between_Ambition_and_Execution%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Carter&#8217; Finds an Enormous Divide Between Ambition and Execution&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<pre><code>     &lt;span class=\"mx-1\"&gt;And you thought you\u2019d seen the worst of what a Netflix Original action movie could deliver.&lt;\/span&gt;\n&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;div id=\"\"&gt;\n\n\n\n                &lt;figure class=\"sf-entry-featured-<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> \"&gt;\n            &lt;img width=\"800\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/carter-1.jpg\" class=\"articlethumb wp-post-image\" alt=\"Joo Won in Carter\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/carter-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/carter-1-768x421.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/&gt;                                    &lt;p&gt;\n                    &lt;span class=\"sf-entry-flag sf-entry-flag-creditline\"&gt;Netflix&lt;\/span&gt;\n\n                        &lt;\/figure&gt;\n\n    &lt;!-- START BYLINE --&gt;\n    &lt;div class=\"row align-items-center justify-content-center my-4 text-center medium dark-gray\"&gt;\n        By\u00a0Rob Hunter\u00a0\u00b7 Published on August 5th, 2022 \n        &lt;\/div&gt;\n    &lt;!-- END BYLINE --&gt;\n\n    Anticipation is a double-edged sword. It\u2019s nice to look forward to something and have that excitement build before being rewarded with a good time. But hoo boy does it suck when that excitement bites you in the ass with an inexplicably terrible film from talents you\u2019ve seen do so much better. Writer\/director &lt;strong&gt;Jung Byung-gil&lt;\/strong&gt; has earned all the goodwill in a short time with just three features. His 2008 debut, &lt;em&gt;Action Boys&lt;\/em&gt;, is a fun documentary about wannabe stuntmen, 2012\u2019s &lt;em&gt;Confession of Murder&lt;\/em&gt; is a wildly entertaining action\/thriller with a darkly comedic edge, and 2017\u2019s &lt;em&gt;The Villainess&lt;\/em&gt; remains one of the last decade\u2019s best and most inventive action films. You\u2019d have all the reason in the world to expect a lot from his latest, but &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Carter&lt;\/em&gt;&lt;\/strong&gt; is instead an aggressively in-your-face mess of digital fuckenings and unt<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ed potential.\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>A man (<strong>Joo Won<\/strong>) wakes up in a fancy apartment wearing only his briefs and finds several Westerners with guns pointed at his face. They ask questions that he can\u2019t answer \u2014 his memory is gone, and he doesn\u2019t even know why there\u2019s a fresh surgery scar on the back of his head \u2014 but things grow even more confusing when a voice inside his head tells him his name is Carter and he should jump out the window if he wants to live. The leap lands him in a gangster-filled bathhouse, and the fight for his life begins.<\/p>\n<p>The plot seems as familiar as they come \u2014 a highly trained fighter, either a retiree or an amnesiac, is targeted by other assassins and must fight his way to the truth \u2014 but <em>Carter<\/em> adds an extra twist suggesting something fresh is in the offing. A virus is turning people into bald, animalistic killers (maybe take this opportunity to go watch Jeff Lieberman\u2019s 1977 oddity, <em>Blue Sunshine<\/em>) and we get a couple cool horror-lite sequences here as a result (including the film\u2019s best visual showing a post-crash waterfall). That unexpected genre element, though, as with nearly all of the action in <em>Carter<\/em>, is frequently negated by Jung\u2019s unhinged and visually unappealing approach to capturing it all in a faux one-shot \u201cenhanced\u201d by nonstop digital trickery.<\/p>\n<p>The camera almost never stops moving, with even static scenes glimpsed through a view that bobs and weaves like a drunk asshole looking for his car in a Chili\u2019s parking lot. The actual action scenes up the ante in their awfulness by slamming the camera around, over, under, or through the carnage. What\u2019s the problem you\u2019re saying, Michael Bay flew drones under exploding cars and you loved it! Well that\u2019s because Bay and his team knew what the fuck they were doing and captured the action without losing sight of either the visual appeal or the geography. Jung is capable of such things, but he shows no interest here and instead crafts some of the ugliest action sequences to ever grace the screen.<\/p>\n<p>Digital cuts abound with zero effort to hide them, wirework is erased but still visible in the movement, and beats that should thrill instead annoy as we zoom in and out to \u201ccomplete\u201d the illusion of a single take. A zip line between rooftops is a mess of CG and poorly stitched together edits. A fight in a moving truck with two enemy vans on either side teases possibility, but the weak CG exteriors do nothing to convince there\u2019s actually any movement at all resulting in more ugly antics. Jung even repeats himself with this same gag later only with a train as the middle player in the Chinese finger trap-like set-piece. A chase on a Papa John\u2019s delivery bike suggests fun but is so clearly stitched together from forty different shots that we lose all sense of momentum. Most of the doors Carter moves through reveal a visible, digital switch to a different location on the other side.<\/p>\n<p>This kind of wild, go-for-broke, nonsense action-cinematography isn\u2019t new, and in the right hands (or with the right intentions) it can deliver a fun and\/or competent time. Think some entries in Tsui Hark\u2019s filmography or one-offs like Michael Davis\u2019 <em>Shoot \u2018Em Up<\/em> (2007) and Ilya Naishuller\u2019s <em>Hardcore Henry<\/em> (2015) \u2014 the final product might not be all that good on the whole, but no matter how crazy things get there\u2019s a film literacy and tactile feel to the action shots. Jung himself has previously shown an eye for such things while still delivering banger <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a>, but it seems he may have taken praise for <em>The Villainess<\/em>\u2018 extended one-shots and beautifully chaotic motorcycle fight and come out the other end with the wrong message. Why do better when you can just do more?<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s most frustrating with <em>Carter<\/em> is that the bones of legitimately cool set-pieces and skilled action performers\/stunts are clearly visible beneath the noise. Step back from the bathhouse sequence and it\u2019s both an unusual locale and a visually interesting one as steam, tattoo ink, and blood coil and spill across naked bodies in violent motion. You instinctively know there are some exciting fight moves unfolding before you, but the jerky camera motions \u2014 some physical, others manufactured in post \u2014 and butt-ugly digital cuts wash all the talent away. The stunt performers have clearly done the work coming into this with Won himself showing off a memorable physical presence trapped in a one-dimensional experience.<\/p>\n<p><em>Carter<\/em> plays out like video <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> \u2014 Carter is the player moving from action to exposition then back to action \u2014 but its frenetic and nonsensical execution leaves it feeling even less of an accomplishment than something like <em>Doom<\/em> (2005). And <em>Doom<\/em> is trash! Our hero dispatches hundreds of nameless baddies while taking minimal damage himself. A big set-piece involving a train and multiple helicopters should be cool (and most definitely sounds cool on the page), but the deadly serious yet horrendously cartoonish way it\u2019s presented just crashes and burns.<\/p>\n<p>Ugh. Jung\u2019s ambition seems somewhat clear, but whether it\u2019s due to budgetary restraints or the limit of his own skill-sets, <em>Carter<\/em> is a massive misfire. A one-shot movie where the longest actual single shot is maybe thirty seconds? Ugly digital work turning every action scene into a jumble of nothing? But hey, at least\u00a0<strong>Camilla Belle<\/strong> found a quick gig while apparently vacationing in South Korea? I don\u2019t know, it\u2019s unclear. In the interest of going out on a note of positivity, though, the final shot in the film is absolute aces, and Jung can only go back up from here.<\/p>\n<pre><code>    Related Topics: Netflix\n    &lt;!-- AUTHOR BOX --&gt;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<div class=\"gray-bg p-4 border small mb-5\">\n<div class=\"row align-items-center text-md-center\">\n<div class=\"col-md-2\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/dca6f7118e64ea9aa6ef4f60221cfe7e?s=96&amp;d=mm&amp;r=x\" class=\"circle img-fluid\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\"\/>\n        <\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md\">\n            Rob Hunter has been writing for Film School Rejects since before you were born, which is weird seeing as he&#8217;s so damn young. He&#8217;s our Chief Film Critic and Associate Editor and lists &#8216;Broadcast <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a>&#8217; as his favorite film of all time. 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