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)
中東裔科學家藏流感病毒機密⋯繼災難片後，爽片也開始玩爛梗了
低配版《谍影重重》，优秀标兵面临退役中年危机。生活重担房贷压在身上，曾经为国家付出自己，现在却再也不能实现自身的社会价值。被迫加入雇佣兵组织，执行一些国家不见得光的任务。结尾让我有点想不到，但是整个故事结构简单，推进缓慢，感觉更像是一个生活剧情片，而不是军事动作电影。里面穿插着家庭，军队的兄弟情义等裹含的元素，打戏相当相当的少。如果是冲着像《谍影重重》那样的打斗戏就基本可以告退了。你把它当成像一部网剧那样 一点一点来播放的话，那还是挺不错的。
# Phase One
本片是派派Chris Pine和本福斯特继《怒海救援》、《赴汤蹈火》后第三次合作。派派年纪大了也开始接自己的《John Wick》了，类似基努里维斯、连姆尼森的中年硬汉，希望能够通过动作片再次向好莱坞证明：我还没老，我还能打！剧情来说依然是美国退伍老兵被坑然后复仇的故事，但是节奏把握的非常到位，103分钟毫无拖泥带水，重现了谍影重重般的追杀、反侦察？真实肉搏，让我这个动作片爱好者大呼过瘾。最后赞一下亚马逊，这片子本来美国时间4月1号上线的，但是资源提前一天流出了，今天就能在家同步北美院线爽上流媒体4K真是太爽了哈哈哈。
在没有谍影重重的年代，这样的片子已经算还可以的了，
下岗干部，拖家带口；老马迷途，志在千米；错上贼船，异国落草；兄弟阋墙，看钱说话。
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。
剧情有点老套，然后转承过于简单，派恩演的倒行，眼睛颜色很好看
一贯的印度爽片风格，就像网络爽文一样，印度片找到了一群准确的用户群体，就看着爽就行了，但像我这种要求比较高的难免会多说一句：反派太弱了，一开始进入时的金属人我还以为是最终要对战的，结果结尾那么简单就没了
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？
一般般，吃饱了没事的可以看看，当然不想浪费时间的最好别看
好无聊的剧情，明明都是我喜欢的元素，拍出来却像是随意拼凑的
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。
Not bad.
典型的模板化影片。这种感觉就有点像是。。夏天吃个西瓜，只管啃就是了
动作戏挺OK的，就是剧情稍微莫名其妙了点。
6.2分。是部合格的动作片，尤其对于印度这个国家来说。但总觉得这个超级士兵太弱了，巴霍巴利王出来直接秒他有木有😂平凡人随便开挂，真到正宗印度队长这又低调得不行，真是搞不懂三哥的脑回路😅但有一说一，终于看到一部靠谱的印度动作片了，蛮期待第二部的。
The.Contractor.2022.2160p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.HDR.HEVC-CM太难看了
情节稍显老套，但是主角的个人情况交代和性情表演都不错，片子的题材也很好，对应现在的新冠病毒，揭露美国令人毛骨悚然的阴暗面，为利益而反人类的阴谋，细想一下现实中美国在全球三百多生物实验室的病毒可能比全球核武器不知道恐怖多少倍，可能新冠病毒只是冰山一角。
漏洞太多，前段节奏太慢！但悬念确实一直都在，演员表演也到位，所以，还是跟随剧情看的下去。
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