2015 · action · drama · history
Assassination
Directed by Choi Dong-hoon2h 20m2015
In Japanese-occupied Korea, three freedom fighters are assigned a mission to assassinate a genocidal military leader and his top collaborator. But the plan goes completely awry amidst double-crossings, counter-assassinations, and a shocking revelation about one of the assassins' past.
Our read: Assassination (2015) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · drama · history entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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