Hope: excessive and jubilant (critic)

Ten years after The Strangers, Na Hong-jin returns with a wild alien invasion film. A visceral cinematic pleasure that mixes action, humor and terror.

Ten years we waited for news of Na Hong-jinwhich left us with the shock of The Strangersa nightmare from which we never quite recovered. We imagined a tortuous and poisonous return, but now it takes everyone by surprise with an alien invasion film built on speed and noise. The case begins in a small port town, where a mysterious creature ravages everything it comes across and sows death, while two cops and a few heavily armed residents try to kill it. Except that the creature takes almost everything, without flinching.…

Masterful opening hour with the floor on the ground, where the threat remains invisible for a long time, but followed closely by the corpses and exploded walls that it leaves behind. The pieces of bravery follow one another, enjoyable, and each action sequence seems to want to pulverize the previous one.