Film Review – No Other Choice

After completing a stint in television last year with “The Sympathizer,” director Park Chan-wook returns to the big screen with “No Other Choice,” returning the helmer to his interests in sinister business previously explored in efforts such as “Oldboy,” “Stoker,” and 2022’s “Decision to Leave.” He’s back with a tale of employment disasters and panic, adapting a 1997 novel by author Donald Westlake (which was previously handed a cinematic interpretation by director Costa-Gavras in 2005), which tracks the horrors of a family man who loses his job, left to stew in the humiliation before recognizing he can go to extreme lengths to secure his next position. It’s a timely understanding of hopelessness, handed a darkly comedic spin by the helmer, who tries to make a mess out of the main character’s panic, taking “No Other Choice” into various violent and absurd directions. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com