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Post by mikef6 on Jun 17, 2018 16:33:25 GMT
Aknyeo (The Villainess) / Byung-gil Jung (2017). South Korea is emerging as the leading national film industry for exciting action movies. Most of the time Hollywood’s got nothing on them. Case in point is “The Villainess,” a complex spy plot which is made even more dizzying with a kind of stream-of-consciousness and time shifting storytelling that will move into a flashback without indication or show us a report of an agent being kidnapped before we see the actual kidnapping. In addition, the film begins and ends with two extended action scenes that are totally amazing – impossible, but amazing. The only thing in American film that I can think off to compare it is “Atomic Blonde” and “John Wick” but they still don’t come close. After she has single-handedly taken out a drug gang in a gun and knife battle, Sook-he (Ok-bin Kim) is recruited by a super secret government agency whose job is to assassinate the leaders of organized crime. Her past, however, and her need for revenge for the killing of her father when she was a child, come back to haunt her and leads to a breath-taking climax. Bloody, gory, and bleak. “The Villainess” played out of competition at Cannes in the festival’s Midnight Movie series where it received a 3-minute long standing ovation.
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Post by RedDeadFallout on Jun 17, 2018 22:26:04 GMT
I've been planning on watching this.
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Post by politicidal on Jul 14, 2018 13:37:55 GMT
Sounds great. Hey, did you check out BATTLESHIP ISLAND?
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