Most big Korean action movies are backloaded, wrapping up with three to five endings, but Byun Sung-hyun’s Kill Boksoon, which premiered as a Berlinale Special, has everything going on up front. So…
Most big Korean action movies are backloaded, wrapping up with three to five endings, but Byun Sung-hyun’s, which premiered as a Berlinale Special, has everything going on up front. So much so that it initially seems too much, to the extent that it sometimes feels as though there’s actually a mini-series in there bursting to get out.
When she’s not bumping people off, usually in the form of faked suicides, Gil lives with her teenage daughter, Jae-Young , whose increasing hostility masks a heartbreaking unrequited love for her female schoolmate. “Killing people is simple compared to raising a kid,” says Boksoon, but even so, she wants to get out of her contract and settle down.
Which is a shame, because there’s a lot of fun to be had in the workplace. MK is run by the cool, mysterious Cha Min-kyu and his conniving sister Cha Min-hee , and their fractious relationship threatens to topple the empire when it transpires that someone is going rogue and carrying out ‘freelance’ hits in direct defiance of their criminal code of honor.
Tarantino-esque is a phrase not much used these days, but director Byun taps into the comedic quotidian element of the story, in a style that recalls. More strongly, though, it seems to be directly inspired by Vivica A. Fox’s character in: the retired assassin tracked down to suburbia by The Bride. Thankfully, Byun has done more than just steal the idea, creating a character one would actually like to see a lot more of.
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