Cannes 2026: Hope movie review – The Wailing director Na Hong-jin back with a monster mess
2/5 stars
If South Korean director Na Hong-jin had wanted to give his latest movie an even snappier title, it might be Run.
Through long stretches of this two-and-a-half-hour action extravaganza, humans and aliens race down small-town streets, through forests and along highways, as if daring the viewer to – sorry – hope when and where this is all going to end.
Except that it does not.
By introducing a slew of new threads in the final reel, Na seems to be shaping Hope as the first of a franchise....
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