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Summary After being unemployed for several years, a man devises a unique plan to secure a new job: eliminate his competition.
Directed By: Park Chan-wook
No Other Choice
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Summary After being unemployed for several years, a man devises a unique plan to secure a new job: eliminate his competition.
Directed By: Park Chan-wook
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 21 Critic Reviews
86
100% Positive
21 Reviews
21 Reviews
0% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Aug 30, 2025
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.
By John Bleasdale FULL REVIEW
Aug 29, 2025
There are any number of movies about people who try to reinvent themselves in the face of a crisis. There are many fewer movies about people who violently refuse to even consider that idea — people who would rather kill someone else than become someone else. Park Chan-wook’s bleak, brilliant, and mordantly hilarious “No Other Choice” is the exception that proves the rule.
Aug 29, 2025
The more chaos descends, the more meticulous Park’s filmmaking becomes, as he finds giddy new ways to exploit pre-established quirks of terrain and architecture.
Oct 10, 2025
A caustic portrait of the rat race as legitimately killer, and another feather in the cap of one of world cinema’s true maestros.
Sep 6, 2025
There is, initially, some heavy slapstick here (the first murder is a calamitous mess) but the bite of the film resides in the richness of its characters and how it delves into the protagonist’s home life.
Oct 14, 2025
Park is a virtuoso of tone, and for a while, No Other Choice hums with delirious energy: the precision of a thriller and the absurdity of farce. But once the machine reveals itself, its designs become clearer and more repetitive.
Aug 29, 2025
Director Park expertly fuses genres, navigating deftly between broad satire and taut thriller while always maintaining a grounding in the humanity of his characters. A hearty helping of gallows humor delivered with a marvelously mordant twist by the talented acting ensemble also cuts across both modes of filmmaking.
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