A Constant Visual Feast

A word I wish I used more often when talking about action: Squibs. It’s a fun word to say. It’s doubly fun to type. And I’d be lying if I said I didn’t like seeing squibs in action in action films, because look, if I wasn’t a fan of spurting blood, I wouldn’t watch these things in the first place.

In fact, as I explicitly talk about in my review of Lee “Some Kind Of Squid Game” Jung-jae’s Hunt, it’s the squibs squibbing all over the place that propel the film along and help alleviate the many overlapping obscurities and complexities of its knotty spy plot. It’s not that it’s “hard” to understand, per se, it’s just a very fast-paced guns-‘n-guts thriller that doesn’t really give a shit about slow walking the audience through its twists and turns, which, it should go without saying, I respect.

You can read the full piece over at Paste Magazine.