

Lorri Bagley as Jennifer, a female giant ground sloth.Jane Krakowski as Rachel, a female giant ground sloth.


The first five minutes or so are filmed in first person with a body-mounted camera we watch through Sook-hee's eyes as she shoots and slices her way through the horde of thugs, with only her hands visible. One masterful touch in this scene is the change of perspective halfway through. The scene is a tour de force of action choreography, made to look like one single shot - and most of it is, though there are a few hidden cuts. Sook-hee, a female assassin played by Kim Ok-vin (best known for Park Chan-wook's 2009 vampire horror film Thirst), storms into a building and, in a roughly eight-minute action sequence, kills around fifty gangsters in brutal hand-to-hand combat. It even served as an inspiration for John Wick: Chapter 2, which imitated the film's motorcycle fight scene in a major sequence. It received international acclaim for its stunning action choreography and use of long takes. Jung Byung-gil's previous film, The Villainess, was a remarkable achievement when it was released in 2017. The film is made to look like a single shot and follows him in real time as he flees Seoul and escapes to another country, fighting foreign agents, assassins, and thugs the entire way. Over the next 132 minutes, he's thrown headfirst into several international conspiracies, with at least three major countries trying to kill him. He has no idea how he got there, why he's being held at gunpoint, or even who he is. In Carter, a Korean man ( played by Joo Won) wakes up in a strange apartment, covered in blood, with several Americans pointing guns at him. The most recent film to attempt it, however, is the Korean action movie Carterreleased by Netflix. The Hidden Enforcers (Chinese: ) is a 2002 Hong Kong action film directed by Nam Yin and starring Sammo Hung. The trend was perhaps kicked off by the critical acclaim of Alejandro González Iñárritu's 2014 film Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) and most famously perfected by Sam Mendes' 2019 war film 1917. In recent years, as Hollywood increasingly relies on narrative gimmicks in order to lure audiences to the theater, a growing number of movies are made to appear as if the entire movie was filmed in one shot, though almost all of them are several shots stitched together with hidden cuts.
