"Hope: Doomsday Bloody Battle" turns a small village into a doomsday battlefield, and Luo Hongzhen focuses on pure action rhythm

2026/09/06 07:13

"Hope: Doomsday Blood War" filmed a small village into a doomsday battlefield. (Provided by Cai Chang)

[Reporter Zhong Zhijun/Comprehensive Report] The new film "Hope: Doomsday Blood War" (호프) by famous South Korean director Na Hongzhen cost about 50 billion won (approximately NT$1.1 billion) to produce. It has been highly anticipated all the way from Cannes. After it was released in Taiwan on Friday, it successfully aroused discussion. Some Korean media analyzed that Luo Hongzhen did not put bait this time. He just let the monster appear, asked people to pick up guns, and then rushed all the way to the end.

At the beginning of the story of "Hope: Doomsday Bloody War", the police station director played by Huang Jinmin just went to the reporting scene. When he came back, he found that the entire village seemed to have been run over by a disaster. The villagers died tragically and huge footprints were left on the ground. Then the audience followed him holding a gun and constantly looking for monsters as if on a battlefield.

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Interestingly, the biggest difference between "Hope: Doomsday Bloody" and Luo Hongzhen's past works is that it deliberately cuts off the sense of reality. "The Cry" has the real place name "Gucheng", "Yellow Sea" has the real routes of Yanbian, Seoul and the Yellow Sea, and "The Chaser" also has the smell of a real case scene; but the village in "Hope" is like a closed playground built by the director himself, a space that only exists for monsters, gunfire, fear and chasing.

The official poster of the Taiwanese version of "Hope: Doomsday Blood War". (Provided by Cai Chang)

Therefore, the most fascinating aspect of "Hope" is not "what the aliens actually represent", but the impact of the pure action rhythm; the second half of the movie is like stepping on the accelerator to the end, no longer turning or making sidesteps, and just letting aliens and humans with guns chase each other on the screen.

"VOGUE KOREA" reported that "Hope: The End of the World" is not the "alien version of "The Cry" that some fans imagined, but it does look like a very willful Luo Hongzhen movie: shrinking the world into a village, pushing the characters to the limit, and filming the action until only instinct remains. "Hope: The End of the World" is now in theaters across Taiwan.

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