SummaryHiding out in Jeju Island following a brutal tragedy, a wronged mobster with a target on his back connects with a woman who has her own demons.
Directed By:Park Hoon-jung
Written By:Park Hoon-jung
Night in Paradise
Metascore
Mixed or Average
59
User score
Generally Favorable
6.1
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
17% Positive
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83% Mixed
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Apr 9, 2021
80
While the visual and thematic richness of Night in Paradise could adequately carry the film on their own, the wry comedic tone that often infiltrates even the darkest exchanges between characters enhances the overall emotional payoff.
Apr 8, 2021
60
Leisurely pacing rather draws it all out a bit, but there’s real inventiveness to the way Park wrong-foots the viewer and handles the operatic displays of gunfire and death – and the leads are rather charming.
User score
Generally Favorable
29% Positive
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
57% Mixed
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
14% Negative
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
May 15, 2021
6
Night in Paradise is a good feature film.
Its main problems: it has half an hour of unnecessary scenes that cut the pace alarmingly.
May 8, 2021
6
Violent without concessions, and it's better structured than I expected, however the duration and pace are problematic. A better editing would've done wonders, because you can tell the director tried to make the story more penetrating and atmospheric, but a lot of that is lost when the violence starts, because it basically disconnects you from the other, calmer tone. Still, I found it exciting enough to keep my attention.
Apr 7, 2021
60
You just wish that director Park had managed to execute the film as a whole with the crisp efficacy of some of his individual sequences.
Apr 7, 2021
60
Night in Paradise contains a lot of good plotting, several amusing characters and a decent array of exciting action scenes and bloodshed. But it is indulgently long.
Apr 10, 2021
58
Park makes a noble attempt to suffuse the meditative soulfulness of Takeshi Kitano’s “Fireworks” into the propulsive genre tropes established by more recent (and more Korean) forebearers like “A Bittersweet Life,” but he just can’t find the same poetry in that silent pain as he’s able to produce from the screaming kind.
Apr 7, 2021
58
Night In Paradise is an exceptional resource for anyone trying to understand how stories can be told within the frame, even as it consistently trips on its relentless grimdark tendencies. There are no pleasant people to be found here; there is no path that doesn’t lead to the grave.
May 8, 2021
6
closer to a 5 but could not give that due to the beautiful scenery of jeju and the atmospheric cinematography of this film genre. not a bad film but the main actor was quite a lull and necessary stupor acting when he was incapacitated in jeju. maybe he was not given a good script and the director needs a little comedic flavour to make the movie palatable.
my only reservation is that korean films are trying very hard to americanize. if true, welcome to the downhill.
Feb 1, 2026
2
전여빈 배우님을 두고 이렇게 1차원적으로 밖에 캐릭터를 못만든다고? 낡은 배경 낡은 이야기 새로울 것 없는 미스테리에 절레절레왜 있는지 모를 재연과 태구의 소통씬들과 하염없이 죽음에 가까운 재연의 삶 연출은 별로였다.별로인 내용에 별로인 캐릭터에 재미까지 없었다.210418 (1.0)
Production Company:
- Goldmoon Film
Release Date:Apr 9, 2021
Duration:2 h 11 m
Rating:TV-MA
Tagline:No Safe Haven
Awards
Blue Dragon Awards
• 1 Win & 6 Nominations
Buil Film Awards
• 5 Nominations
Chunsa Film Art Awards
• 1 Nomination
