Hawt🔥Takez - No Other Choice Review

About this episode

The episode reviews Park Chan-wook's black comedy thriller No Other Choice, discussing its themes and cast.

Prestige season is winding down, but not before we cover Park Chan-wook's highly anticipated black comedy thriller No Other Choice. Chan-wook has given us other cinematic gems like Oldboy (2003) and The Handmaiden (2016), so we were excited for his new offering. In No Other Choice, paper industry expert Man-su (Lee Byung-hun) is fired from his job and has no other choice but to kill off his competition to keep his standard of living. The film stars Lee Byung-hun, Son Ye-jin, Park Hee-soon, Lee Sung-min, Yeom Hye-ran, and Cha Seung-won. The film was snubbed by the Oscars, but is sure to make many of our 10 best lists in the forthcoming Oscar Lodgecast Extravaganza!

People in this episode

Host: Matt's Movie Lodge

Topics covered

• film review
• black comedy
• thriller
• Park Chan-wook
• Oscar snubs
• cinema

Keywords

• No Other Choice
• Park Chan-wook
• Lee Byung-hun
• film review
• Oscar snubs

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Oscars

Books & works: No Other Choice, Oldboy, The Handmaiden

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