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Director
Park Chan-wook
Cast
Lee Byung-hun,
Son Ye-jin,
Park Hee-soon,
Lee Sung-min,
Yeom Hye-ran,
Cha Seung-won,
Kim Woo-seung,
Choi So-yul,
Oh Dal-su,
Lee Suk-hyeong
Genre
Crime,
Thriller,
Comedy
Man-su is an award-winning 25-year veteran employee of a paper company, Solar Paper. But when Solar Paper is bought out by an American company, Man-su is laid off. Unable to find another job, and with his family starting to suffer, Man-su decides his only option is to eliminate the competition.
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Empire by Jake Cunningham
Cut it, print it. These are brutal executions, brilliantly executed. Director Park has said he wants No Other Choice to be his “masterpiece” and he may well have done it. Hopefully he won’t be jobless any time soon.
Chicago Tribune by Katie Walsh
Park’s mastery of tone reflects his mastery of cinematic craft, which has only become more surgically refined in the past few years.
Washington Post by Ty Burr
Here, [Park] takes a 1997 Donald E. Westlake novel, “The Ax,” and applies it to his home country with malice aforethought. The result is an entertainment that draws blood.
RogerEbert.com by Brian Tallerico
There’s something so rewarding about going to a movie and giving yourself over to a master like Park Chan-wook, someone whom you trust through all the twists and turns of a film as tonally complex as No Other Choice. It’s so easy to see all of the places where this unique gem could have gone wrong, and so satisfying to see it only make good choices from beginning to end.
Film Threat by Rick Hong
The story entertains from start to finish, and the filmmaker absolutely delivers another home run.
The Associated Press by Jake Coyle
The tone is so farcical that the gruesomeness of some of Man-su’s acts come slyly.
Original-Cin by Jim Slotek
Well shot, well acted and with locations that vary from brutalist factory sites to beautiful nearby forests, No Other Choice is both believable and absurd as it unfolds. But its social relevance remains spot-on.
Time Out by John Bleasdale
With humour blacker than black bean noodles, the film is a masterful work of cinema which might well be Chan-wook’s masterpiece. And given this is the man who directed The Handmaiden that’s saying a lot.
BBC by Nicholas Barber
No Other Choice Isn't just Park's funniest film, but his most humane, too – and that's quite something for a comedy as violent as this one.
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by Barry Hertz
From beat to beat, it is impossible to predict where Park is going with this film. Best to just turn up the volume, and trust in the rhythm that Park has set for himself. Let him lead the dance.
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