Out of curiosity, I google-translated the Korean title of this movie since the English version The Chase felt somewhat off. As expected, the actual title is no exact match: "Surely Catch." Even taking into account the awkwardness of this original phrase (which is likely idiomatic), "Surely Catch" at least accurately connects to the plot as writer-director Kim Hong-seon's geriatric thriller doesn't concern a gray-haired slumlord racing after criminals on his moped so much as it does a gray-haired slumlord (Baek Yun-shik) who, despite his unending crabbiness, becomes a well-meaning amateur detective hoping to rescue an abducted tenant (Kim Hye-in) who he's nicknamed 205 after her apartment number. He's not alone in his improbable quest.
Along for the ride are a kooky retired cop (Sung Dong-il) and a marginally less goofy, active-duty police officer (Jo Dal-hwan), neither of whom is particularly reliable. Disorientingly complicated with its copycat criminals, traumatized survivors, Alzheimer's subplot, and shadowy flashbacks, The Chase had me wondering if romantic leads were going to continue to grow older and older as we humans continue to live longer and longer ourselves. Maybe after a century of films focused on first loves we're about to usher in a new millennium of feel-good flicks that are suddenly concerned with last chance romances...with death in the background, of course.
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