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‘The Hunt’ Review: Lee Jung-Jae’s Directorial Debut Gets Lost In Its Own Maze

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A propulsive, albeit complicated, narrative plays out across Lee Jung-jae’s directorial debut “Hunt.” Cashing in on the capital that “Squid Game” and a recent Emmy win got him, Jung-jae marries the spy and action genres in a film that he co-writes, directs, and stars into middling results.

Fictionalizing the Gwanju Uprising that took hold of the Southern Korean government in the 1980s, the film is ostensibly about two career spies — Jung-jae’s Korean Central Intelligence Agency Foreign Unit Chief Park Pyong-ho and Jung Woo-sung’s Domestic Unit chief Kim Jung-go — investigating each other to discover who a mole codenamed Donglim.

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