HOPE
Directed by Na Hong-jin · 2026 ·
HOPE (2026) earns a 71% Celluloid Score — Recommended. Recommended — recommended by most critics and audiences.Critics (82%) were notably more enthusiastic than audiences (75%).
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Why this score?
- Celluloid's editorial rating is positive (82/100).
- General viewers mostly liked it (75%).
- Metascore is generally favorable (68/100).
- Celluloid Score 71% combines 4 verified rating inputs; audience sentiment is shown separately.
Best for
- Epic-length viewers who want a big-screen experience
Not ideal for
- Viewers who only watch top-tier, 90%+ rated films
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Is HOPE worth watching?
Yes — HOPE earns a 71% Celluloid Score. Recommended — recommended by most critics and audiences.
Celluloid Verdict
A decade of anticipation buys Na Hong-jin room to sprawl, and sprawl he does — an overstuffed, frequently astonishing creature epic whose nerve-shredding set pieces outrun its wobbly world-building and divisive ending.
Celluloid editorial verdict
Critics (82%) were notably more enthusiastic than audiences (75%).
What is HOPE about?
In Hope Harbor, a fishing village hard against the DMZ, wildfires sever all communications just as something inhuman comes down out of the mountains. A weary police chief, a rookie officer and a village of armed locals set out to hunt the creature — and quickly become the hunted. Na Hong-jin's first film since The Wailing is a $46 million science-fiction colossus, a decade in the making, that premiered in competition at Cannes and delivered Korea's biggest box-office opening of 2026, with Hwang Jung-min leading an international ensemble that folds in Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander.
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Critic Reviews
Hope Review: Na Hong-jin Returns With a Monster Epic That Devours Itself
★★★☆☆
A decade after The Wailing, Na Hong-jin resurfaces with Hope — a 160-minute creature epic whose opening stretch is some of the most ferocious action filmmaking of his career, and whose back half spends that brilliance with both hands.
See it for the first hour, which is world-class, and brace for the sprawl. Genre devotees and Na completists should not miss it; viewers hoping for another Wailing should recalibrate.
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