Exact numbers have yet to be confirmed, but Na Hong-jin’s “Hope” is reportedly the most expensive movie ever made in Korea, with a rumored budget of ₩50 billion (which only translates to about $33 million USD). Whatever this 160-minute blockbuster actually cost, it was both way too much and not nearly enough — too much for a trite and tedious bumpkins vs. monsters saga that only has the creative propulsion to sustain itself for about 45 minutes, and not enough…

It’s the final weekend of summer in 1986, upwardly aspirant Jewish families across Queens are still crowding around country club pools to make sure they get their annual money’s worth, and — in a little less than two months — the Mets are going to win the World Series for what might be the last time in team history. But nebbishy engineer Irwin Pearl (Miles Teller) doesn’t know that yet. He doesn’t know that this is his golden age. He…