No Other Choice: darkly funny, viscerally uncomfortable, and disturbingly prescient, blending satire and despair

No Other Choice (2025)

Movie Review: No Other Choice (2025): Here's Paul and his review of Park Chan-wook's latest film, "No Other Choice," starring Lee Byung-hun.

There’s a particular cruelty in doing everything right and still end up losing. You work hard, you climb the ladder, you buy the house, you provide for your family. And then one day, someone you’ve never met decides you’re expendable. Park Chan-wook‘s No Other Choice (Korean: 어쩔수가없다) understands that cruelty intimately. Based on Donald Westlake‘s novel The Ax, the film transplants an American story of economic collapse to South Korea and finds something universal in the rage of a man who played by all the rules and got screwed anyway...Read on!