Kill Boksoon
Usually I try to give my reviews without any spoilers, it's going to be impossible to talk about this movie without revealing what happens in it. It's the story of Kill Boksoon, who is an assassin trying to balance her career with raising a child by herself. She inhabits a world that is dangerous and deadly, but with a firm set of rules. These rules have been established by her boss, the owner of her company. The film does a really great job of constructing a world in which hired assassins work for what seems to be the Korean version of a Fortune 500 and where the police assist them in their endeavors. The action in the film is brutal, realistic and yet at the same time cinematic. The fight scene in the bar where she takes on several of her former friends and massacres them is destined to be a classic. There's a great moment where she has been betrayed by all of these people she considered to be friends, and she is desperately fighting off several skilled assassins and there's a close-up of her, and you would expect her to be worried or upset or angry, but she's smiling. And that's the trick of her character, that she is a brutal assassin because she actually enjoys killing people. And that's the heart of the conflict in the movie, can a person who enjoys murdering people be a good parent. Like many great action films, the movie is not actually about the action, it's about the relationship between a woman, her child, and her work.
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