They look odd, these women: It’s not so much their Victorian garb as the fact that their face is covered in a combo of bonnet and breathing mask. The ending leaves the door wide open to a sequel. A high-speed chase involves our indestructible hero jumping on and off a bike and three moving vans, and another repurposes the codes of high-flying - literally - Asian cinema wire action with combatants in free fall from a plane. The director Jung Byung-gil ( “The Villainess”) has devised a series of virtuosically unhinged set pieces, and Carter is a turbocharged hybrid of Jack Reacher, Ethan Hunt and Jason Bourne. This sci-fi-inflected actioner’s plot matters less than its operatic violence and dizzying camera work. operative, trust a disembodied voice from North Korea to begin with? You have one guess.

He hears a woman’s voice in his head that informs him that a spreading virus is turning people into bald zombielike maniacs, and he must deliver the antidote to North Korea. Shortly after waking up with amnesia and a cross-shaped incision on the back of his neck, Carter (Joo Won, the star of the original Korean version of “The Good Doctor”) has recovered enough to brutally dispatch dozens of half-naked foes in a blood-soaked melee inside a bath house. Just a few minutes into this new South Korean import, it’s obvious we are in for a completely bonkers ride.

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