As we all know, there’s terrible pressure on the modern hitwoman to have it all: a head-of-the-table position at a prestigious assassin firm, a hunky younger lover, a rogues’ gallery of…
,” which could be the Korean little sister to the “John Wick” franchise cross-fused with “The Long Kiss Goodnight,” is silly, splashy, CG-assisted nonsense — and at 2 hours 17 minutes, way too long. But it has flashes of surprising charm for a film whose philosophy runs no deeper than “You should have led a better life if you wanted to die of natural causes.”
Already now, the best and worst of the movie is on offer. Cho Hyung-rae’s gimbaled, dextrous camerawork makes the tacky action fluid and fun, sometimes playing it out in the reflection of a puddle or through the shutter-motion of a passing train.
The physics of the fighting are unconvincing, with no single moment of contact really landing . But it hardly matters, when each fight entails a few hundred such movements all strung together. This is the quantity-over-quality school of fight choreography, and it extends to the CG too, which is used unsparingly, not just in augmenting blood spatter, but in show-offy, impossible camera movements, such as when the lens passes through closed doors several times over, just because it can.
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