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As IndieWire\u2019s David Ehrlich alluded to in his rave A- review of Park Chan-wook\u2019s \u201cNo Other Choice\u201d<\/a> when it made its lauded premiere at the 2025 Venice Film Festival, this is a movie about slaying the competition. Literally. And now the \u201cNo Other Choice\u201d trailer is here. Watch it below.<\/p>\n The film stars Lee Byung-hun as a middle-aged man who suddenly loses the job he\u2019s held for several decades. With the job market looking especially bleak, he embarks on a radical course: Murdering the fellow applicants for the role on which he\u2019s set his cap. A whirlwind of bloody shenanigans ensue, all with Park\u2019s singular blend of the bloody and the humorous, in what Ehrlich called one of the South Korean auteur\u2019s most mainstream-accessible movies yet. As a result, IndieWire\u2019s Awards Editor Marcus Jones think \u201cNo Other Choice\u201d<\/a> may have real legs for Park in the forthcoming Oscar race.<\/p>\n More from IndieWire<\/strong><\/p>\n Ehrlich wrote that it\u2019s the \u201crare film that feels sympathetic toward its protagonist without ever rooting for him, and Lee\u2019s elastic performance as Man-su \u2014 clumsy, pathetic, cucked by osmosis, and still only a hair worse than we are \u2014 is key to the balancing act of Park\u2019s tragicomic tone. Easy to roll your eyes at from the opening scene and increasingly pigheaded in all of the ones that follow, Man-su starts off a long way from likable and tumbles much lower in our estimation from there. But the high-wire nature of the movie\u2019s plot requires us to appreciate the credibility of Man-su\u2019s conviction without necessarily sharing it ourselves (there\u2019s a terrific scene where an oblivious Man-su lectures one of the men he wants to kill with all of the same perspective we\u2019ve been screaming at him in our heads), and no one on Earth can match Park\u2019s signature ability to make characters\u00a0more\u00a0endearing as they stumble toward the void.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cMiri\u2019s final decision to [redacted] is as easy to rebuke as Man-su\u2019s\u00a0initial\u00a0decision to become a serial killer, but \u2014 to the immense credit of a slaphappy movie with a surprisingly powerful sting \u2014\u00a0it\u2019s also just as difficult to dismiss outright. She holds onto the only choice that all of this madness has left her with, and as the world around her surrenders its last measure of agency to the demands of an apathetically efficient future (shoutout to AI!), Miri\u2019s refusal to abandon what\u2019s left of her own almost feels like its own fucked up kind of heroic act. Capitalism won\u2019t ever care about you, but people will always be full of surprises.\u201d<\/p>\n Neon will open \u201cNo Other Choice\u201d in select theaters on Christmas Day with a wide expansion in January.<\/p>\n Best of IndieWire<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for Indiewire’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source uk.news.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As IndieWire\u2019s David Ehrlich alluded to in his rave A- review of Park Chan-wook\u2019s \u201cNo Other Choice\u201d when it made its lauded premiere at the 2025 Venice Film Festival, this is a movie about slaying the competition. Literally. And now the \u201cNo Other Choice\u201d trailer is here. Watch it below. 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