Storyline
Sook-hee is a trained assassin who was born to kill. She was just a little girl when the training started in Yanbian, China. After the death of her mentor, when the chance of starting a new life was given to her, she came to South Korea as a government agent. They promised her that she will be free after ten years of service. So she begins her new life as a theatre actress. But soon two men Joong-sang and Hyun-soo appear in her new life. And she started to find deep dark secrets about her past. Eventually she take matters into her own hands.
Writers: Byeong-sik Jung, Byung-gil Jung, Ok-bin Kim, Ha-kyun Shin, Jun Sung, Ok-bin Kim, Ha-kyun Shin, Jun Sung, Seo-hyeong Kim, Eun-ji Jo, Ye-Ji Min, , , , , ,
Cast: Ok-bin Kim -
Sook-hee
Ha-kyun Shin -
Joong-sang
Jun Sung -
Hyun-soo
Seo-hyeong Kim -
Chief Kwon
Eun-ji Jo -
Kim Seon
Ye-Ji Min -
Sook-hee (young)
Taglines:
An Endless Vengeance Begins
Country: South Korea
Language: Korean
Release Date: 3 Jan 2017
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Rating: 6/10
You can't say these out there Asian action flicks, are boring, cause
they're not. They're the last thing from it. Starting with the
bloodiest opening to end all bloody openings, we're virtually bombarded
with carnage, where one woman taking out a sea of bad arses (swordsmen)
in a hallway, slicing and dicing her way through em' with dizzying
camera angles. We get to the next room, it starts up again (that first
bare, slightly chubby chested guy, I can't get out of my mind) where
the kill count increases. We've seen so much, bloodshed, already, this
makes Kill Bill look small time, filling more buckets of hemoglobin, it
would make even Tarantino, a jealous party. From this, a beautiful if
relieved transition ensues, as we realize there's a real exciting story
at play here, where a lot of it, borrows for Le Femme Nikita, or The
Assassin, that 93 Bridget Fonda pic. Unfortunately it's a too muddled
tale, or very messily organized back and fro structure, of a young
gifted sword fighter and assassin used by an obviously corrupt
organization to do their dirty work. Her problems are only extenuated
with the arrival of a child which threatens her future and goodwill for
both. Storywise, I thought the story would of lived up to the title,
where the woman was a real evil character, but she isn't an evil
person, where the title was kind of misleading. We are taken back to
earlier times, where sporting the short hairdo, we see that may'be she
was, or as she says, to a much hated figure, later, "You made me like
this". by them (her masters). There was just such a messy approach to
the back and fro structure, it was bloody annoying, where even Einstein
would have trouble piecing it one hundred percent together, one head
wracking experience for a layman. It's a pity as The Villainess, really
could of been something, and speaking of The Assassin, earlier, one
bathroom scene here, is horribly familiar, where I bet your bottom
dollar, the writer here, saw that movie. But push that aside, The
Villainess is still an excitingly explosive action pic, and surefire
entertaining night at the movies. The film has some good acting, and
the action scenes, especially the motorbike chase scene, are
spectacularly staged, and I don't want to know how they went about that
one. It just really suffers on the account of it's uneven and muddled
telling and approach to story.
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