Because no matter the animal, they have survival instincts too. you will have quite the ride ahead of you. If you see them as equal to us or even better than us in some regards. How you perceive this, will depend on how you view animals. While it is mostly CGI blood and Tiger/s (the latter actually all the time I reckon), it is not less harrowing and intense. But before that is the sentiment you see it: this is really violent and bloody. It is almost a fable, a fairy tale like story.
It's also incredibly overlong, so by the end I really struggled with it. No blood poisoning in this movie, which increasingly becomes a fantasy as the running time goes on. It acts in human rather than tiger ways, it refuses to follow the laws of physics with impossible speeds and leaps, and it shrugs off devastating bullet wounds with ease. Even worse, realism disappears when the tiger's around. It's no LIFE OF PI and indeed during the action scenes I felt like I was watching a LORD OF THE RINGS movie. The CGI effects are sketchy at best, and downright poor in other areas (such as the wolves). Unfortunately, it's the tiger itself where this falls down.
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On the plus side, it's well-acted by the entire cast, particularly Choi Min-sik who brings his usual gravitas, and the realism of the era is brought vividly to life. I was in two minds about this one, being no fan of films about humans hunting animals, and indeed while certainly well-made, this lacks a certain something. THE TIGER is a Korean historical epic with a difference: this one's about the manhunt for Korea's last tiger, nicknamed the 'Mountain Lord' for its ferocity and resistance to capture.