“Watch who you hire.”
Story: Hornclaw, a “specialist” – think more Nobody, less The Pitt – has been doing her job for the past forty years. She’s the one every other killer has nightmares about, a true legend in her field. But sixty-five years are starting to weigh on her. She’s still at the top of her game, but everyone else thinks it’s time she’s out to pasture. So when brash young Bullfight joins her agency, he’s determined to take her down, thanks to the attachments she’s started to form with a young man and his family. Bullfight has obviously never watched an action movie in his life. Otherwise he’d know this is gonna be one tough matchup.
Genre I’d put it in: Heartstring-tugging Action Movies You Kinda Already Know
Release Date: 2025
Remake, Sequel, Based-On, or Original: Based on the novel of the same name by South Korean author Gu Byeong-mo.
Gotta say: I’m a sucker for action films. Throw in a little soapy drama, and you couldn’t keep me away. Knife has the same gritty realism you’ve come to expect from Korean actioners like Train to Busan, and The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil (what can I say – I’m a sucker for any film Ma Dong-seok is in), and Oldboy. Knife pays beautiful homage to the pantheon of action greats, but abrupt, often disjointed editing keeps this one from truly soaring to the heights it could have reached.
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