Streaming Sleepers: In Kim Bong-Han’s THE WILD, Redemption In An Unforgiving Wilderness
The Wild is currently streaming on Hi-YAH!, and will release on Digital on April 9 from Well Go USA. Korean crime noir is full-up in The Wild. Director Kim Bong-han’s third outing is dark, moody, and thrilling at times, and lead actor Park Sung-woong presents a worthwhile protagonist in Woo-cheol, an underground fighter sentenced to eight years for killing a man in the ring, and released a year early on good behavior. Eager to live a more quiet life away from the hustle and bustle of the criminal underworld familiar to his best friend Do-sik (Oh Dae-hwan), his outro is soon interrupted when an attempt to hold an assailant accountable for assaulting a woman envelopes him into an even deeper and more troubling predicament. What follows is a tale of love, betrayal and redemption with Woo-cheol wedged between three major players in a deal that will ultimately determine his fate. […]
