Time to Hunt (2020)

 

Sypnosis

In dystopian South Korea, Jun-seok leaves prison, which he has entered due to a botched heist he and his friends pulled. The Korean won has crashed massively, making that haul effectively worthless. Jun-seok proposes one last heist to his best friends Jang-ho and Ki-hoon, to escape their miserable situations.

Their target is an illegal gambling house, which stores hefty stacks of US dollars. The trio recruits Sang-soo, who currently works in the gambling house. After getting firearms from Bong-sik – a friend Jun-seok knew in prison – the quartet proceeds with the heist, which finishes messy but successful. They take a large sum of cash and the gambling house's surveillance hard drives, which contain footage of shady dealings between the gambling house's owners and various criminals. After the heist, Sang-soo requests to stay in the city a little longer to continue working at the gambling house, to avoid raising suspicion. The trio leaves to go to Ki-hoon's parents' home.

The loss of the surveillance hard drives makes the gambling house's owners unhappy. They recruit contract killer Han to track the quartet and retrieve the hard drives. Han visits Bong-sik, forces him to call Jun-seok to reveal the trio's current location, and kills him. Han tracks down Sang-soo, and kills him off-screen, taking his phone. Jun-seok wakes up from a nightmare and goes to a bar. He receives a call from Sang-soo's phone, but on realising that someone else inside the bar has his phone, he leaves in panic and rushes Jang-ho and Ki-hoon to immediately flee, knowing that someone is hunting them down.

Trying to get away from the lodge, Han shoots Jang-ho, and the car crashes. Han gives the trio a 5-minute advantage before continuing his hunt, and they drive to the hospital to treat Jang-ho's injury. At the hospital, as they are resting, Jun-seok sees Han arrive at the hospital. The trio hotwire Han's car and realise that it is a police cruiser that has access to the city's surveillance cameras. Assuming that Han is a cop, they attempt to make a deal with him, but he refuses. Han is arrested by the police, but they release him on the road under the police chief's orders.

The trio arrives at the harbor, where they have to stay until dawn. Suspecting that his parents are in trouble, Ki-hoon returns to his parents' home, saying goodbye to Jun-seok, who is outside. Jun-seok returns at dusk, sees an unknown car near the entrance, and realises that Han has arrived. Jun-seok and Jang-ho escape from Han and run to a nearby car, but Han shoots at them before Jang-ho can start the car. Jun-seok says fighting Han is their only chance to escape.

In the shootout, Han shoots Jang-ho multiple times, and the latter eventually succumbs to his injuries. As Jun-seok is about to be shot dead by Han, a group of masked men, led by Bong-sik's twin brother Bong-soo, arrives to kill Han to seek revenge for the death of his brother. The masked men shoot Han numerous times, and he falls off the edges of the docks, into the sea.

At dawn, Jun-seok takes the boat to Kenting, Taiwan, where he stays for some time, but he still cannot forget about the loss of his friends. He asks for information regarding everyone involved with the gambling house and learns that Han has survived. It is also revealed that Ki-hoon did not survive after returning home. Jun-seok, now better at firing guns, knows that he will never escape from Han and returns to South Korea to face him.

 

Cast & Character 

Main

• Lee Je-hoon as Jun-seok
• Ahn Jae-hong as Jang-ho
• Choi Woo-shik as Ki-hoon
• Park Jung-min as Sang-soo
• Park Hae-soo as Han

Special appearances

• Jo Sung-ha as Bong-sik / Bong-soo
• Kim Won-hae as Bin-dae
• Lee Hang-na as Gi-hoon's mother