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)
女主玛丽·伊丽莎白·温斯特德应该算是一位气质独特的个性女星。不算很美丽，也没有动作女星的标签。甚至长相都很难让人记住，也许就是所谓的大众脸。不过她在本片中塑造的女杀手形象相当成功。而她的师傅伍迪·哈里森，真的挺遗憾的。原本很期待师徒档。本片颇有女版《怒火攻心》或《疾速追杀》的感觉。
又一部女杀手电影，不过拍的还算好看，以日本为背景，还弄出点东西文化相互冲突的意味。打斗场面显得混乱且血腥，血浆四溅的那种
全片以一个几乎命定的悲剧为主基调，基本没有转折地一路下行，最终以至绝望，这片子大概不想做纯粹的爽片，只是全程debuff的主角，越打越弱的动作戏，实在不是讨喜的选择。
一个生命倒计时的杀手的复仇之旅，肉体的崩坏与灵魂的自由相映成趣。
演员不可渭演的不努力，只是在这简陋的剧情下，无论是伍迪哈里森、国村隼还是浅野忠信，看上去都做作的不得了，幸亏还有相对流畅的动作戏挽尊，相对暴力的尺度，也是本片得以生存之道。
也没有啥情节，也不需什么情节，就是看里面的打打杀杀。#20210918
另，浅野忠信，我第一眼都没看出来，这大概就是好演员的特质：他可以掩去光芒！
一流水准的女性动作电影！优秀的运镜配色打光，出色的剪辑和场面调度，演员们水准之上的表演。
女版怒火攻心+日本黑道+赛博朋克+好听的插曲。影片总体及格，所有的插曲都好听ヽ(*´з｀*)ﾉ关注歌手走一波。 女主的长相有点太贤惠了。不过打到后面血肉模糊的状态，还是有点帅的。
太一般 不够暴力不够血腥剧情又太俗，我选择看浅野忠信和国村隼黑帮厮杀好过看卡特的最后二十四小时强撑。
牵强的逻辑不谈，女主从剧版冰血暴就蛮喜欢的，可是这种耍狠的打片，真不太适合她，目前看来，塞隆、玛格特罗比、萨玛拉维文可能再加个瘦回来的科洛莫瑞兹有那种气质，其它的大表姐、凯伦吉兰、MaggiQ、萨莎露丝什么的，都不太行。。BTW,日本小妹妹挺灵的。。
全程快节奏，快餐式网飞爽片，女主复仇遭到背叛继续复仇 剧情简单 枪战动作场面挺火爆 在东京拍摄在霓虹灯下还有种赛博朋克的风格
Die Hard算法，其女比其父——更狠更酷更黑更不团结
剧情没意思，动作也不精彩。反派真的“惨”，没说几句大话就被解决了。
剧情老套，叙事生硬，动作戏又太假。
还行吧，故事挺简单，一看谁是坏蛋一目了然。但是像Crank那样开场主角就死定的设定还是算比较少见。动作很流畅，力度差了一点点。还成吧，作为爆米花合格。
中规中矩，这种剧情见得太多了，就没那么吸引眼球了。另外，伍迪第一个场景出现，我就已经猜到他是最终BOSS了，所以整体就没啥特别的了，打发打发时间还可以
一个生命倒计时的杀手的复仇之旅，肉体的崩坏与灵魂的自由相映成趣。
其实是女版弱化版《怒火攻心》 V的黑化大家都能猜到，但是又没有多少铺垫。Kijima 为啥一直不现身啊，为啥只和莲司联系啊？这个人物有点莫名其妙。另外打女太难了，打不出力量感就很出戏。
影片其实整体不能到四星，叙事，情节，对白整体是崩塌，无趣而老套的……
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