Ballerina(발레리나)
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Korea · 2023
1h 33m
Director Lee Chung-hyun
Starring Jeon Jong-seo, Kim Ji-hun, Park Yu-rim
Genre Action, Adventure, Thriller
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Jang Ok-ju is a highly-trained ex bodyguard skilled in hand-to-hand and gun combat. Her friend Choi Min-hee was a ballerina, driven to suicide by ruthless and brutal gangsters. As her last wish, Min-hee implores Ok-ju to get revenge, which Ok-ju does, sweeping through the Korean criminal underworld with gun, blade and fist.
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I watched this on a whim after seeing it described in an a Polygon article about Korean action cinema. The film is slick to a fault - the colors are hypersaturated, giving the characters and environment an oily sheen fitting its grimy setting and gruesome subject matter. The action sequences are excellent, and dancelike, but not as elegant as the title suggests. Rather, the swerving and swooping melees take on the quality of a hip-hop music video, getting the blood pumping as it spurts from gun, blade, and fist.