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)
着实还是中年危机惹的祸呀...剧情台词挺考究，整个格局比较沉重压抑，也预示着前方的路充满阴霾，不同于推翻阴谋的孤胆英雄，这确实是个沉重心塞的故事。派恩这眼神越来越像本尼西奥德尔托罗了
男主是真他妈帅，皱纹也性感的要命(又是一位年龄越大越性感的类型)。动作戏也都还可以，空乘也好美，没和女科学家搞在一起很好。动作加上sci-fi更好玩了，有点像Jake 2.0
觉得漏洞挺多，把科学家的那个文件公布到网上不就好了？看结尾的样子还准备出续集
剪接干脆利落，主题线清晰，第一幕OK，进入第二幕从入侵实验室开始太多bug，第三幕惨不忍睹，可惜好题材。2022·7·4 5.8/5698 短评1678条 %18/52/30 【IMDb5.8/1.5万 预算5000万美元，北美票房103.52万美元，全球票房212.22万美元】
★★☆ 过于俗套的剧情，枪战戏也没觉得有多精彩
叙事手法熟练，敢于自嘲调侃政府软肋潜规则，敢于表现平民生活的治安苦难，没有空洞爱国主义的口号，没有伟光正的领导，格斗动作快慢镜头设计不弱于john wick，而且人家就敢表现把恐怖分子从飞机上扔下去的反人权举动，看着很爽，毕竟是科幻，所以就算吹牛逼也比战狼水平高。期待第二部和美女科学家发展下去。
唯一不合理的就是，哥俩找boss复仇的时候，那兄弟竟然长时间站在最亮的路上开枪，暴露自己。😂
还是比较老套的故事，柏林的段落有点谍影重重的味道，包小强难得以反派形象出现，就是戏份有点少。
即韩国艺术电影超越中国之后，中国的电影工业也要落后印度了嘛?
爽剧的同时还不忘了讽刺一下官僚，连议会大厦都敢炸，程式、节奏、政治，某些方面已经超过我们了
乳美多给一星，希望导演不要突然身中八枪。小成本动作片，剧本大纲没问题，台词欠打磨，导演没有装逼技巧，不知道孤胆英雄动作片就是得装，全程看主角挨打逃命，换个港片导演估计可以八分
故事老套，但动作和氛围都不错，演技在线，有谍影重重的味道。
态度坚定无惧冒险，坦然自若匀速前进，路指未来，梦想花开。
差在故事，怎么连个阴谋论都写的这么没有逻辑支离破碎的，前半段过了之后柏林的节奏感紧张感都很好啊，结尾就？
除了营造情绪，故事情节全部被模糊化，动作场面仅限预告片。
两星半 亚马逊 网飞这些平台截至目前还没把拍电影这件事搞明白
没什么起伏，动作戏还可以，就是最后反派死的太快了，连个打斗都没直接秒。
很好莱坞套路，但还是不错，动作戏满满，大片即视感
半夜睡不着看的，真的是可惜了这么帅的男主，剧本在三十年前都可以说老套。
唯一不合理的就是，哥俩找boss复仇的时候，那兄弟竟然长时间站在最亮的路上开枪，暴露自己。😂
Copyright © 2015-2023 All Rights Reserved
