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)
致敬自己，嘲讽自己，对话自己，审视自己，接纳自己。凯奇的演艺生涯不可谓不传奇，也不可谓不曲折。因为辉煌过，所以更需要勇气面对跌落神坛后的不堪。作为观众如果喜欢曾经那个熠熠生辉的凯奇，在吐槽多年烂片王的如今，看完本片也请接受这个迟暮的凯奇吧。虽然本片的剧本依旧···一般。【三星半】
来，为情怀，为那些年的岁月，干了！
凯奇炫技之作，剧情、制作都很水的网剧既视感。
编剧和导演估计都是凯奇的死忠粉，故事马马虎虎及格分以上，但看完以后想看凯奇早期的片子了。
故事本身非常一般 但套在这个设定里就显得很有创意了
好莱坞还在选角阶段的活人立生祠传记片们可以参考本片，还是让大明星们自己演自己吧。巨星向粉丝电影也要肥水不流外人田。老套失意中年男人切入，但是想出来一喊action就有超能力简直是天才啊！
债还完了就好 凯奇起码这个年纪没有发福还是帅的
凯奇式的致敬自己，对过去自己的模仿是个陷阱，因它无法超越
从出道即巅峰到落魄烂片王，二十余年的摸爬滚打在这部电影中剥开了给观众看。
PS:很欣慰cage大叔也爱Paddington2，希望他可以参演Paddington3🐻
又一部预告片比电影好看的平庸之作。本来把自己现实的 struggle 放在电影里戏剧化地表现这个点子挺好的，结果电影本身还不及预告片十分之一好笑，也更没多深刻和感情真挚，就，清汤寡水的无聊。
水准之上，不算优秀，但也的确是凯奇近几年最好的作品了
片子真的很一般，老套又匠气，但曾经奥斯卡影帝（近十年的烂片王）自己演自己的这种幽默和勇气还是挺难得的。希望烂片奥斯卡影帝可以踏上人生第二春。
自己演自己的尼古拉斯·凯奇~说真的其实凯奇的演技一直挺好的~一段时间里烂片虽然多，但那是片子不行，演技一直没问题啊~至于这部~搞笑度还可以~重点是自己演自己~而且还和现实那么像。其实最好的是结尾，毕竟我看到时候就觉的绑架戏太突兀太不合适了~然后结尾这种感觉就消失了~当然可以有其他的理解，但按我的理解那就是向市场妥协的剧情！话说现如今的海报流行这种风格么？和瞬息全宇宙的风格好像啊~
“他又回来了”，“他又没过气过”，“确实”
后面好严肃来着，为什么不能把乐子贯穿全片。
有戏中戏的感觉，非常好笑有点心酸，需要对凯奇大叔的作品有起码的了解，熟悉到场景、台词更好。总体而言是一部爆米花片，但情怀很足，各类致敬和内涵也很用心，另外，我也是真的很喜欢鞋拔子脸的😁
没有特别惊艳，除了猛玩尼古拉斯凯奇的梗，其余的地方都很中庸
他是演技炸裂的凯奇，他也被称为烂片之王，他系出名门且才华横溢，他债墙高筑又神经兮兮，这是他以真实身份出演本人的一部非传记电影，若当作是粉丝致敬或爆米花爽片就大错特错，这是一个与千千万万陷入困境的中年一样不得不拼命的戏剧化破局故事。如果你期待为各种经典桥段致敬彩蛋欢呼或想看到巅峰凯奇满血回归，那必然会失望，我个人很喜欢，喜欢凯奇无奈无助又无畏无惧的演出。
很meta，nic cage老师很in on the joke，cage和pedro pascal的male friendship chemistry很正。但是情节很单薄，感觉真的像是边演边编出来的。
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