A nameless stranger (Segel) breaks into the supposedly empty opulent vacation home of an unscrupulous mogul (Plemons) and his idealistic wife (Collins).

Available on HBO Max.Ĭharlie McDowell directs his wife, Lily Collins, along with Jason Segel and Jesse Plemons in this tense three-hander. If you liked Bird Box, you might also enjoy: The River Wild (1994), in which Meryl Streep plays a mom navigating the elements while defending her family from an unhinged Kevin Bacon. Eventually, Malorie attempts to get her two children to safety by traveling to a secure community, but must do so blindfolded.ĮW's Leah Greenblatt said in her review, 'There is no bigger how or why, just bare survival and a steely Bullock - suddenly, fiercely ready to fight for a half-lived life.' It became the most-watched film on Netflix within 28 days of release at the time, and still ranks in the top tier of the most-watched Netflix films ever. Time to Hunt uses its elongated runtime to build sequences in a meticulous, considerate way that should appeal to viewers who have seen Heat, Collateral, and Miami Vice too many times to count.In about the bleakest post-apocalyptic world imaginable, Sandra Bullock plays Malorie, trapped in a dystopian house with some other survivors ( John Malkovich, Machine Gun Kelly, Jacki Weaver, Trevante Rhodes), who are avoiding a series of creatures that stem from a malevolent 'entity'- if anyone lays eyes on them, they will go insane and try to kill themselves. There are dystopian elements to the world-protests play out in the streets, the police wage a tech-savvy war on citizens, automatic rifles are readily available to all potential buyers-but they all serve the simmering tension and elevate the pounding set-pieces instead of feeling like unnecessary allegorical padding.

A group of four friends, including Choi Woo-shik ( Parasite, Train to Busan), knock over a gambling house, stealing a hefty bag of money and a set of even more valuable hard-drives, and then find themselves targeted by a ruthless contract killer (Park Hae-soo) who moves like the T-1000 and shoots like a henchmen in a Michael Mann movie.

Unrelenting in its pursuit of scenarios where guys point big guns at each other in sparsely lit empty hallways, Time to Hunt is a South Korean thriller that knows exactly what stylistic register it's playing in.

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