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)
本来是冲着有多少槽点去看的，结果居然还不错，比能看还强一档，分数想必还是受到了片外因素影响，但就片论片已经是《功夫熊猫》最好的好莱坞同类型片了。最大的槽点还是在片外：比《黑豹》上映时间晚了太多
男主其实打戏还可以，就是外形条件，的确比不上李连杰成龙啥的，现在打星这么缺人才吗
有些地方还是刻板印象大融合，但打戏真的很不错，“桃花源记”的设定还蛮带感的，最后大战那里的摄影构图绝了，7分吧~
最后我想说，干嘛不跟妹妹你五环我五环呢？
UA Berkeley 7 6/8/2022 19:50
还是很感人的。 搞笑并且感人。 人性事故， 家庭内的温馨友好，孩子们的天真烂漫真的很好
神兽大战的特效不错。并不觉得选角有问题，当然女主如果也能说中文就更好了。
best family movie of this year🥳 【居然还有十二季动画可以补太爽辣】
特效、BGM都不错。
我不是爱国啊，但是我对里面糊弄人的普通话真的很生气。
不得不承认，特效牛，非常牛， 尤其片尾曲水特效动画令人称奇，看着这么多中国古神话动物在国外电影中被还原的这么好，真的五味杂陈。剧情和人物逻辑有硬伤，尚气老爸为爱入魔的铺垫和渲染都不够，导致最后孤注一掷看起来像个傻子，即使梁朝伟在试图用演技弥补这种硬伤，但依旧杯水车薪。父子情感觉是美国中式快餐店的糖醋里脊，外表加了点中国元素，但骨子里还是美式思维，少了中国血浓于水的那种深刻和羁绊，说弑父就弑父，说算了就算了，闹着玩呢？事实上父子间的爱恨纠葛、责怪与谅解才是最精彩的部分，但尚气男主明显经验和体会不足，把这个电影演的过于表面化。
有点太美式了，有点小尬，但是还是蛮有意思的
没看过剧集版居然全部get到了，又烂又傻逼又尬笑又好看，所有歌都难听到抓狂，但是却又神奇地和这股气质相匹配，非常奇妙的观影体验，今天的我是baby妻夫木聪谢谢。
还蛮有趣的，有点圈粉去扒剧了，汉堡比基尼不错。
梁朝伟饰角仿似《真·三国无双》中的古天乐+塔利班二十五世远祖“山中老人”附体。苦大仇深痴心情深令人唏嘘。
其实我也不知道尴尬在哪，但就像我一眼能认出这个男主不是个真正中国人一样，长期在另一种地缘下的文化样貌也是如此。另外：可能是我主观、片面，但后来偶然发现即便是之前说尚气选角的另一个人林路迪，一眼看着也不像，查了一下果然还是加拿大华裔。
终于借着美国人的手把自己的爹杀了（终于死了一会），克服阴影了，找着自我了。有个怪物就中美联手了，横扫亚太（神龙打架），桃花源里孕育着恶魔，竟然被美国人引发了战争。
西方对怪物的想象真太贫乏无味了，终极boss噬魂大怪兽的出场把电影试图构建的整个古早东方语境毁得稀碎。
Dan是当年Glee的Sebastian啊！！！（没看过闪电侠…）小伙子和狗狗都太可爱了，美国的田园诗生活幻境
只能看在华裔（非中国了）题材上给星星，剧本及其他真的太平庸了。
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