Carter

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.

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.

Carter’s mission is to rescue Ha-na and bring her back to the North Korean facility where the production of a vaccine is underway. When questioned about his identity and involvement in this mission, Carter is told that he is a South Korean-born naturalized citizen of North Korea who has decided to take part in the mission to save his own infected daughter, but the CIA agents approaches him and claims that he is actually a former spy named Michael Bane who was believed to be dead during a mission in Syria. After a series of combats, Carter manages to arrive in North Korea with Ha-na where they meet Han Jung-hee and her superior North Korean General Kim Jong-hyeok.

Before Carter can complete his mission and get his memories back, General Kim betrays Jung-hee and Carter to launch a military coup against the North Korean government. While Ha-na is a captive of Kim’s forces and Kim works to convince Jung-hee to join the coup, Carter escapes from the soldiers assigned to kill him and follows Kim and Jung-hee to a biomedical facility where Ha-na stays, reuniting with her father Dr. Jung. Carter learns that Jung-hee is his wife and shoots Kim who threatens Jung-hee with a gun. At the same facility, they meet their infected daughter Yoon-hee who behaves violently and attacks Jung-hee. Dr. Jung injects Yoon-hee with an antidote which makes her temporarily unconscious. After fighting against the infected patients and Kim’s soldiers, they escape the facility in a jeep.

Carter, Jung-hee, Yoon-hee, Dr. Jung and Ha-na hope to catch a train operated by Chinese government, carrying infected people to Dandong. On the way, Jung-hee and Dr. Jung restore Carter’s memories by activating a device implanted in the back of his head. Carter remembers that he agreed to this mission in exchange of his family’s freedom and that he suggested blocking his memories to ensure that he couldn’t betray North Korea. Following a chase and combat with Kim’s forces, the five finally manage to board the Chinese train. Yoon-hee wakes up, apparently cured from the disease. As the train is crossing a bridge, a bomb blast occurs which makes the train head for a fall.