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)
有被惊喜到，三星半，原来是改编自泰勒·亚当斯的小说《无处可逃》。
小场景一波三折，前半截略平淡。7.3/10.
看着突然想到《养鬼食人》里钉子头要是摔一跤的话……
整个就是喜剧片 虽然里面有些枪战暴力的场面 但还是很搞笑的 误打误撞成为高端杀手 逼人招供那段实在是重口味
作为爆米花动作喜剧还过得去，凯文哈特和伍迪哈里森再加大爆炸佩妮的组合还挺有票房号召力的，但还是想看看如果按照郭达斯坦森的设想拍成R级片，会不会更好
嗑药还有这用处？以及看完之后总觉得美国好危险…持枪没好结果…
小演员小成本，完成度算不错了，不过有点为吸毒者正名的意思，就没必要了。碰毒品的都不是人，别提人权了。
开场的氛围营造真的可以，进入正题后剧情一崩再崩，连逻辑都不要了。。。
剧情完整但太单薄了，前一个小时挺无聊，后面也没紧张起来
不要被“反转”骗了，没啥反转，这种小空间悬疑命题作文，写成这样只能说比较一般，演员啥的倒发挥不错，喜欢看血腥也不要被r级骗了，不过瘾
女主很在线，脑子很清楚，这件事告诉我们，不要相信陌生人。后半截节奏乱了，有些拖沓。
开头会以为是嗑药致幻心理片。小女孩有点坏，还以为有个暗黑的反转。耍诈牌学会了，有机会找人一起玩玩儿。其他并无惊喜。
暴雪天气，高速封路，五个人受困于一个没有手机信号也无职员的游客中心，其中就有绑架小孩的罪犯。典型的密室罪案，熟悉的场景设置。虽是小成本制作，但故事讲述得还不错，悬念的设置尚可，情节也是一波三折，还不时有反转。女主角是华裔，一个毒虫却脑子够用，几乎独力死里逃生。她的表演还可以。
比较一般，开头情节比较慢。女主角姐姐Devon（演员是Lisa zhang）最后出现，觉得她好漂亮有女人味。
有够烂的，男主很像BMTH主唱Oli...
拍挺好的，也看好Havana Rose Liu
剧情完整但太单薄了，前一个小时挺无聊，后面也没紧张起来
放低预期，才会好看。是情理之中的反转，不必过多吹。
这种密闭空间惊悚悬疑题材却没拍出什么新意，不管是故事推动还是人物行为，都各种套路，总之为了制造悬念感觉所有的人都不正常，最后又来个典型的反派死于话多……
题材不错，紧张感不足，毕竟不是穷凶极恶的歹徒吧
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