Terrorism is not exactly a natural fit for screen comedy. Defiantly going where few have gone before — one rare prior example being the bumbling-jihadist satire “Four Lions” 15 years ago — “Good News” ekes a surprising degree of variably droll and raucous humor from its spin on a real-life hijacking that threw the governments of Japan, the U.S. and both Koreas into crisis mode over half a century ago. The latest from South Korean director Byun Sung-hyun (of the more pokerfaced crime thrillers “Kill Boksoon” and “The Merciless”) is an impressively ambitious, twisty construct that errs only in stretching out a bit longer than the tricky tonal balance can sustain. After well-received festival bows in Toronto and Busan, it launches worldwide on Netflix Oct. 17.
Squirrelly opening text (“Inspired by real events. But all characters and events portrayed are fictional. What is the truth then?”), plus an introductory mix of archival and staged footage,…
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