Carter

Carter is a 2022 South Korean action thriller film directed by Jung Byung-gil, who co-wrote the film with Jung Byeong-sik. The film stars Joo Won, Lee Sung-jae, Jeong So-ri and Kim Bo-min. Carter was released on August 5, 2022 by Netflix, where it received mixed to negative reviews from critics who praised the action sequences, cinematography and Joo Won's performance, but criticized its plot and screenwriting. Plot In the midst of a deadly pandemic caused by a virus which makes the infected patients violent and zombie-like originating from the DMZ that has already devastated the US and North Korea, a man awakes in a blood-soaked bed at a motel room in Seoul with a cross-shaped scar on the back of his head. The CIA agents arrive and demands him about the location of Dr. Jung Byung-ho. With no recollections of his past, the man doesn't know about his and Dr. Jung's identity. A female voice inside his ear tells him that his name is Carter and needs to accept her directions if he wants to live. Following the female voice's instructions, Carter escapes the room and enters a public bath where nearly a hundred gangsters attack try to kill him, but Carter survives their assault with his lethal fighting skills. Inside a van of NIS agents, the female voice reveals herself as Han Jung-hee who works for North Korea's Labor Party, which has partnered with South Korea to create a treatment for the virus. Dr. Jung Byung-ho, who successfully cured his own infected daughter Ha-na, leads the project based on an antibody from her. On the way to a lab in North Korea, Ha-na went missing presumably kidnapped by the CIA.