No Other Choice

3 1/2 Stars (out of 4)

Park Chan-wook's latest crime story from Korea, No Other Choice is more deliberately a stress-out comedy than his darker thrillers, but this one is plenty dark and definitely keeps you off-balance with its cleverness. Man-su (Lee Byung-hun) has it all. He is happily married to the beautiful Mi-ri (Son Ye-jin), and they have two beautiful children, Man-su's stepson Si-one and their daughter Ri-One, a neurodivergent cello prodigy, as well as two dogs. They all live in Man-su's beloved childhood home, which is now decorated with beautiful things. Man-su is proud of his job at Solar Paper, where he has worked for 25 years and won the "Pulp Man of the Year" award. Unfortunately, Americans buy the company, and Man-su finds himself unemployed... More...

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