This thing is certainly bigger and expands on the Bird Box lore, but its appeal largely relies on a twist that, at the end of the day, turns out to be less an ingenious turning of the tables and more an excuse to wallow in just how gruesome the death scenes can get. On paper I’d be skeptical about such an approach capturing lightning in the bottle a second time and now after seeing the finished Bird Box: Barcelona, rekindling that zeitgeist appeal seems downright staggering. Maybe that’s why the film’s ostensible sequel is trying to do the same thing again, only this time without Bullock.
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Since then we’ve seen a lot of Netflix thrillers led by movie stars taking a streaming paycheck, and few have had the impact of Bird Box. Yet I might argue that it’s unclear whether that film scored with audiences because of its grindhouse-adjacent premise or simply due to it being a high-concept movie starring Sandra Bullock that was released during the doldrums of a holiday season. Is Bird Box a movie franchise? More precisely, is Bird Box essentially a shared cinematic universe? Netflix obviously thinks so, as this weekend’s Bird Box: Barcelona acts as both a spinoff and a naked bit of franchise world-building after the original Bird Box movie took streaming subscribers by storm… for a couple of weeks in December 2018, at any rate.
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Looking for more TV recommendations and discussion? Head over to our Facebook Group to see new picks every day, and chat with other readers about what they're watching right now.This review has a mild Bird Box: Barcelona spoiler.
Time to Hunt is available to watch now on Netflix.ĭigital Spy now has a newsletter – sign up to get it sent straight to your inbox. Of course, this perfectly sets things up for a sequel, but with Jun-seok's journey from a desperate thief to a hardened warrior complete, exploring his character any further might just be overkill. It's unclear if Ki-hoon is still alive or not, and that's partly the reason Jun-seok makes his next radical decision.Īfter hearing that Han miraculously managed to survive that onslaught of bullets, Jun-seok practises his shooting skills on some defenceless empty bottles and decides to head back to South Korea, knowing that he won’t be able to live in peace until the hunter is dead. However, he’s unable to enjoy his solitude as he’s haunted by the loss of his friends.Īt one point, he's visited by Ki-hoon in his new bike shop on the island, but it's just his imagination. We then skip forward a few months, possibly years, with Jun-seok now living out his days in Taiwan. Luckily, from his time in prison, Jun-seok happens to know a friendly arms dealer who can supply him and the rest of the gang with some heavy artillery.
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Their target is an illegal gambling den in the underbelly of the city, housing hefty stacks of US dollars – and they'll need some weapons of their own if they're to crack it. He dreams of a life on the beach in Taiwan, and to make it a reality, he proposes one last heist to his best chums Jang-ho (Ahn Jae-hong) and Ki-hoon (Choi Woo-shik, who played the son in Parasite). Why would anyone want to stay? Well, Jun-seok doesn't. While modern day South Korea has strict gun control laws, in Time to Hunt everyone and their mother is packing firearms to survive this rather pessimistic vision of the future. Having recently got out of prison for a previous heist he and his friends cocked up, Jun-seok (Lee Je-hoon) now finds himself in a world where Korea's currency, won, has crashed colossally, rendering the haul of their last job effectively worthless.
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