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)
流水线作品 演员和导演都受制于剧本和人物本身的问题 几场比较干净的动作戏勉强可看
迈克尔基顿可是足足70岁，70岁，老白男非要和Maggie Q上床，还要《史密斯夫妇》边打边做，让人感觉已经不是滑稽，而是愤怒。老白男能不能做个长辈？生殖优越？
里面有我最讨厌的杀手装读书人桥段，表现方式是，随便聊起一本书，可以背诵其中的段落，另一个还能接力背诵。
一群老头演了一坨粑粑。
Maggie Q才是华人动作女星yyds。颜值耐看。但这片是在一无是处，一塌糊涂！
李美琪 Maggie Q这一身紧身黑衣行头，太迷人了。柔美的外表下，难以掩饰狠辣的一面。
正在进行时的故事编不下去了的时候才开始回溯过往走走人物内心试图转移视线，这么生硬的叙事手法也是笨拙的可以。
近年来流行的大女主动作片，最大的看点是Maggie Q保持了一如既往的飒爽身手，有点尼基塔大电影版的感觉......剩下的内容就乏善可陈了，当娱乐片凑合能看完...
一帮上世纪70年代的人在21世纪初演了一本上世纪90年代风格的动作片
其实还可以看看，如果你把这当作《杀手妻子的保镖》番外或平行宇宙，以及尼基塔大战老蝙蝠侠的话。。。
故事性比较弱，但是动作戏还是比较过瘾的，最后有点女权的意思
被卡司騙進來了，尾段直接看睡過去了，主角同樣是安娜，但絕沒有《安娜》好看！
很难想象这种剧情($!(的垃圾片竟然是2021年的作品，各种生硬翻转、俗套的剧情、莫名的土b桥段，白瞎了这些食材，特别是李美琪的大长腿啊。
反派也很奇怪，做什么要假死躲开调查？而且到底是谁在查他的儿子，最后也没有说…
毫无特色的大女主动作片，还不如成龙合作的上一部作品
被卡司騙進來了，尾段直接看睡過去了，主角同樣是安娜，但絕沒有《安娜》好看！
七十多的蝙蝠侠vs四十多的杀手组织王牌女杀手。看完之后只明白了两件事:七十多岁的男人也可以能打，和四十多岁的女人也可以把自己锻炼的身材比以前更好。
冲着MaggieQ打三星 打戏还是挺好看的 但越到后面越莫名其妙 太扯了 感觉可以拍的更好
女主时强时弱,一碗鸡汤就可以逆天改命.气场不错.
原来Maggie是越南难民和美国越战军人的孩子！
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