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)
make up your mind：kill me or f*** me？
暴力血腥的大女主童话。女主一路打怪，文戏四舍五入等于没有。武戏还可以，但也比较好莱坞同质化。
09.01.21 Nikita is baaaack yo! Good popcorn.
《神盾局》《史密斯夫妇》《安娜》一锅乱炖，剧情中规中矩，场面平淡。男主和女主的不够养眼，扣一星。
近两年女权风潮渐盛，女杀手类型片也开始量产，但真材实料的不多，至于片中两位杀手从生死相斗直接滚到床单，着实有点莫名其妙。本片总体而言过于平淡，传统，没啥太大亮点的。
Maggie Q仍然很美很飒身材很好，但故事真是不行，尤其前一刻打的死去活来的两个人下一刻突然就滚起了床单，我就不是很能理解了。
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。
打打杀杀的，就是无法看厌。尤其是妹子们带着国仇家恨。
故事情节、剪辑、节奏、人设都很奇怪的一部电影。
开场一下雨就知道是流水线产品，但Maggie Q仍然演绎出彩，可以说是姐片经典。楔子+三幕的经典结构，第一幕绝美，第二幕前半像90年代港片，后半和第三幕相对无聊。
211031@ cjt 看完了发现好像看过；有钱人请人杀自己，然后杀追查自己（儿子）的人
讲了100多分钟的玄学故事，就是不把越战遗产主题给点明。我有时很疑惑，这些不算差的技术团队围着一个装腔作势、不知所云的本子转几个月，是为了洗钱吗？这是温克认真写出来的本子吗？还是将写在便签上的零散创意拼出来的本子？
就是整体很完整，没啥亮点，打就完事的感觉。
心理学说人类习惯选择后面的选项，所以kill me or fuck me就上床了，如果说的是fuck me or kill me，估计就没有然后了
叠加了主角光环的大女主爽片，看得还蛮过瘾的～
最聋的莫过于不愿倾听的人，正如同你永远叫醒不了一个装睡的人……
很喜欢，几场打斗戏蛮刺激，非常狠准稳，最爱这种干净利落的动作风格，但是我猜到了塞廖尔杰克逊在家灭门的戏肯定没有挂，果不其然，后面出现了哈
本来只准备给两颗半的（豆瓣为啥没半星？），冲着老美女……还是美片现在的通病，就是不会讲故事了……除了一桶乱斗枪战爆炸，最后为了啥都不清楚！
片子其实很一般，就是看一下李麦琪，说实话，也老了，但身材维持得不错，影片整个情节毫无逻辑，大BOSS就这智商，也是醉了。杀手之间产生的真感情怎么看怎么别扭
还挺好看的。美女杀手复仇女神。最后的高潮戏有点儿弱，全靠个大爆炸撑着。但是整体看下来还不错
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