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)
总的来说，前半段铺垫很不错，后面除了火刀惊艳到之外，张力不够，BOSS战草草了事。
导演和投资人不为电影，只为年少时的武侠梦
简约的武侠风，也算是独树一帜。这个世界上最贵的就是公道。
事了拂衣去，深藏身与名。故事很简单，但是很武侠
一大亮点就是氛围感十足、代入感很强。故事基于很简单的朴素的公道心，主要看配乐与氛围，诗意与武侠，过瘾。
预告片动作挺酷的，没办法，多少要照顾观众口味和演员能力。加油年轻人们，加油投资人们。
感觉也完全没必要
氛围算营造得不错了，但剧情太多刻板印象，人设单薄，要靠观众脑补，就算是网大剧本也要下功夫呀
观影二十多年了，我怎么会看这种电影？导演想表达什么？
整体虽然有网大必然的弱剧情，短平快，但如果你要求低自然得到就会变多
3.5质感很好，但故事有点说不过去，人物说话做事都有点“装”不过在武侠文化逐渐凋敝的今日，有这么一部片子，真的蛮难得的。
第3561-干着别的随便看的，美术不错，不知道是不是借鉴了《镖人》，剧情实在实在一般。
一愿谢苗早日大火，二愿武侠重回巅峰，三愿中国再无倭风，四愿以倭代华以次充好妄图断我中华文明顶替之的倭人不得好死。
好多年没看过这么高逼格的武侠电影了，故事虽简陋，但动作戏上的爽度直接拉满，一招一式的设计充满想象力，让人叹为观止!
导演和投资人不为电影，只为年少时的武侠梦
目中无人，心中有刀，三分因酒酿，七分为公道。
作为网络大电影，能拍到这个份上，可以说是惊喜，全剧推进流畅，人物也基本都立起来了，虽然在部分硬伤，动作设计剪切太多，但总体来讲还是值得推荐一看的。
国产版《座头市》，翻拍的很一般，台词啰嗦，画面不错，节奏不稳
故事简单，讲的就是一个沧桑的刀客路见不平了一次，然后拔刀相助，最后与姑娘告别。没有缠绵悱恻的爱情，只有一腔孤勇的侠义。其实，真正的侠客应该是这样有所为有所不为的。
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