Michael Hanake meets the Blair Witch Project in Kim Gok's Exhausted, a vicious kick in the pants to everyone in the audience, all in the name of "style." A man meets a mute woman, and as any reasonable person would do in such a situation, makes her his prostitute. But the pimping is the least of our problems. As we get exhausted by the grainy faux-16mm camerawork, the film gets increasingly deranged. The closest thing we get to a sympathetic character is the pimp, simply because he's got too much self-respect to fuck a mute whore. Everyone else is either a gory mess, or a gory mess in disguise. Even the prostitute, which even a thug like Lars von Trier would make likeable, comes off as a delirious scary woman whose shrieks strike like blows to the jugular.
Kim Gok has seemingly abandoned the Marxist critiques of his short films, going instead for mindless brutality which culminates in an endless bloody freak-show involving, among other things, a pair of scissors going where pairs of scissors should not go. In the middle of the bloodbath, we get an extended long take of the beaten prostitute's near-dead face, but it does not elicit sympathy or pity. In fact, images of the victim only make us shy away in shock. (Indeed, the extended sequence led to continuous walk-outs during the Pusan screening.) The long take invites us to stare, but it assumes we're as sadistic as the victimizer (and the film) is. Meanwhile the sound-effects (mostly a rumbling bassline that shakes the theater) pulsates with pure wickedness. With Hanake, shock creates reflection, which asks that we be critical. Here, we only want to escape. I suppose Exhausted has some virtues; the shots of drilling machines and factories provide a mesmerizing phallic backdrop to the pimp and prostitute's pursuits. But everything else hurts too much. At least Kim Ki-duk lets us breathe. Exhausted makes Bad Guy look like Lady and the Tramp. (asiaarts.ucla.edu)
Maggie Q looks gorgeous, but.. that would be all for this movie
Well.? 我们Maggie还是很好看的。Keaton老斯虽好但是总觉得和角色不太搭。好喜欢Anna在伦敦的书店。小Anna的演员挺好看的。
为我喜欢的nikita再多一星/喜欢niki的打戏！
过瘾到还是比较过瘾，1没有慢镜头👍2不废话出镜就是开干
打打杀杀的，就是无法看厌。尤其是妹子们带着国仇家恨。
惺惺相惜的杀人变情侣莫名其妙，其它更莫名其妙。马丁·坎贝尔也堕落到这个地步了，以前他可是我的动作片前三导。
男主为什么找老头？？难怪女主最后杀了他。气死老娘了嘤嘤嘤嘤嘤！
如果没有续集的话 那这部电影整个感觉是没有灵魂的动作戏，也没有想象中那么多的action scene，有点不知所谓
后面黑大爷不话唠的话，不失为一部干净利落的动作片
动作场面精彩，铺垫到位，不突兀。Samuel Jackson说Richard Wenk写的台词真是再好不过了。剧本唯一的不足是反派人物不够扎实强大，儿子那段戏也显得牵强。但不影响作为商业动作片的娱乐价值。
Our Past is never where we left it , we all have scars. If you stare at them long enough you will remember how you got them.
来看maggieq 梦回尼基塔 但完全不懂导演想表达什么 讲半天也不懂是在赎个屁的罪 长篇大论完结果也就是为了除暴安良 slj诡异殉道 至少可以讲下病情到哪步 还有麻鸡q 第一次见杀手主角搞这种演讲期间在台下当众刺杀的 真把自己当恐怖分子 最烂计划无疑 那panic room和以色列出差队就真是摆设 你前面拍的多刀枪不入 后面刻意营造的苦情悲壮就有多愚蠢 越看越问号 好感逐步降低 伦勃朗这条线挺像和Shane的 调半天情 相爱相杀 最后又来个无厘头 是我不懂
Maggie Q二选一胜者活命，也透着编剧逻辑的敷衍。
逻辑不通的电影，水平拉胯到连八十年代的动作片都不如，不明白几位主演为什么接这样的戏
这片子也太粗糙了，除了动作好看之外，其他真的是莫名其妙，男主太油腻了，yue-
塞缪尔倒是很适合演这种角色，但是又硬凹什么史密斯夫妇感啊？？？？？不懂这个故事线
李美琪难得在好莱坞当回大女主，可是和迈克尔•基顿滚次床单总觉得是亏了，好在两人对手打戏还可以看看，否则影片是真够无聊了！
感觉没看明白 不得不说李美琪 迈克尔基顿和杰克逊这个阵容很吸引人 但故事讲的有一说一确实很烂
老派的槍戰動作場面，連餐桌上床上的小小玩笑都很江湖。很不錯的觀看體驗，回憶裡那個小女孩的精神氣可真是好。
初看海报还以为是上世纪的片子。 "kill me or fuck me?"够野。
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