Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Easy to follow
- Violence
- Graphic
- aggressive
- tense
- bleak
- late night thriller viewing
- action movie marathon
What critics said
Critics broadly praised the film's technical craft, sustained action tension, and grounded character development while finding its long runtime and familiar genre conventions limiting.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
The Korean won has catastrophically lost value, making the protagonists' earlier heist worthless and driving their final robbery.
Han is recruited to hunt the quartet and recover the surveillance drives after the gambling-house robbery.
Jun-seok, Jang-ho, Ki-hoon, and Sang-soo rely on one another while attempting to escape their collapsing circumstances.
The film was described as a technical tour-de-force and received an Asian Film Award nomination for cinematography.
Films like Time to Hunt, and why
The Rover
shared dystopian crime setting, armed heist structure, relentless manhunt tension, and male friendship under pressure
Mad Max: Fury Road
shared high-arousal survival thriller intensity, bleak social collapse, and pursuit-driven narrative
The Yellow Sea
shared korean crime-thriller atmosphere, morally compromised criminals, brutal pursuit, and escalating suspense
The Town
shared heist-gone-wrong premise, desperate criminals, firearms, and tense cat-and-mouse plotting
Movie Details
- Director
- Yoon Sung-hyun
- Release Date
- 2020-02-22
- Runtime
- 135 min
- Rating
- 7.1 / 10 (357)
Cast
- Lee Je-hoon
- Ahn Jae-hong
- Choi Woo-shik
- Park Jeong-min
- Park Hae-soo
- Lee Hang-na
- Seung Eui-yeol
- Song Yo-sep
- Bae Je-gi
- Cho Seong-ha
Where to watch in United States
- Streaming
- Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is Time to Hunt about?
- After a botched past heist leaves them trapped in a collapsing Korea, four desperate friends rob an illegal gambling house and become prey to a merciless killer.
- What is Time to Hunt like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Time to Hunt as brisk, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as easy to follow.
- Is Time to Hunt violent?
- Yes. Ember rates the violence in Time to Hunt as graphic.
- What did critics think of Time to Hunt?
- Critics broadly praised the film's technical craft, sustained action tension, and grounded character development while finding its long runtime and familiar genre conventions limiting.
- Which films are like Time to Hunt?
- Films with a similar feel include The Rover, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Yellow Sea, and The Town.
- How long is Time to Hunt?
- Time to Hunt runs 135 minutes.
- Where can I watch Time to Hunt?
- In United States, Time to Hunt streams on Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads.
