[3][4][5] Set in a dystopian South Korea, the film follows a group of friends who plot a heist and find themselves hunted down by a mysterious assassin after accomplishing the mission.

[6][7] In dystopian South Korea, Jun-seok gets released from prison, having been incarcerated after a botched heist he and his friends pulled.

After Sang-soo chooses to continue working for a while to avoid raising suspicions, the remaining three leaves to go to Ki-hoon's parents' home.

Unbeknownst to the group, the hard drives contain footage of shady dealings between the gambling house's owners and various criminals.

Han visits Bong-sik, forces him to call Jun-seok to reveal the trio's current location, and kills him.

In the ensuing gunfight, Han shoots Jang-ho multiple times, and the latter eventually succumbs to his injuries and dies.

Deciding he would never be free by running, Jun-seok trains and arms himself, and returns to South Korea to face Han once and for all.

[10] The film was originally set to be released in theaters on February 26, 2020, but it was postponed indefinitely due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

[13][14] Following the announcement that Time to Hunt would be released on Netflix, the film's then-international sales agency Contents Panda[a] filed an injunction against Little Big Pictures (distributor of the film) as they "unilaterally notified [Contents Panda] of the termination of the contract" and "none of the overseas distributors agreed on an exclusive distribution agreement with Netflix.

[22] Deborah Young of The Hollywood Reporter describes it as "a technical tour-de-force running over two hours [which] belongs both to the East Asian testosterone-powered action genre whose unrelenting tension will be reward in itself for fans, as well as to socially conscious coming-of-age stories whose painstaking character development adds a deeper sense of realism.