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)
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可惜是那种平平无奇的剧情动作片，克里斯·派恩尝试证明自己的蜕变，但角色还不够立体，剧本不太行，根本就没有亮点可言。
剧情老套，衔接莫名其妙，动作场面也没有特别，不知道看了啥。
这部电影还行吧，就是感觉有点那么老套，而且特效有些还比较明显，不过总体来说还是不错的。
复刻《谍影重重》的风格影像，但格局和叙事完全脱节，只记住了派恩那件Barbour的作战夹克。
好家伙 碟中谍4的桥段 后来就奥林匹斯陷落了。但开挂了就真不如Agent Banning看得过瘾。。
典型的模板化影片。这种感觉就有点像是。。夏天吃个西瓜，只管啃就是了
抛去各种槽点和漏洞，把世间险恶讲的很清晰，人性够黑暗。
纯印度神片，类似印度神油，把总理和议会大厦都搭进去了，就为了显摆男主改造后的优异能力，而且居然没有歌舞，怎么能没有歌舞呢，气。。。
冲着舰长的颜值看的，我怎么觉得这部片的名字应该和同期上的另一部片《宝刀不老》换换？
克里斯派恩啊，拍完一触即发你还不长教训吗，唉
枪战动作戏爽就完事了，另外本福斯特为啥又光荣嗝屁了啊。
着实还是中年危机惹的祸呀...剧情台词挺考究，整个格局比较沉重压抑，也预示着前方的路充满阴霾，不同于推翻阴谋的孤胆英雄，这确实是个沉重心塞的故事。派恩这眼神越来越像本尼西奥德尔托罗了
出乎意料的标准好看，下水道一幕像极了勇闯夺命岛里的一幕，节奏感和悬疑感的叠加与把握也很到位，在黑医生那里是一个高潮。然后这个主题...大反派是鲍小强，我觉得这个表意完全可以引进了。
缝合怪。反派演技和逃跑伎俩可取。最后没有遥控信号，光剪箱子里的线顶的啥用啊
挺可的，一开始是幸福终点站，然后是机械战警，然后是孤胆英雄式的XX营救，哪个电影我忘了，反正英雄主义的片太多。
毒瘤还是没有挖除，老美自己也清楚自己的资本是什么德性。
Not bad.
印度人开挂可以，是不是开挂靠点谱啊？反派看到投降不是第一时间就开枪打死？前半段还可以，后半段简直变成玄幻剧了。
不得不说，印度神片的摄影、音乐、美术和节奏都相当在线
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