No Other Choice

Running time: 139 mins

Crime, Thriller, and Comedy

This deliriously entertaining satire from Park Chan-wook (Decision to Leave, The Handmaiden, Oldboy) follows an unemployed man who, desperate to land a coveted role, develops a ruthless plan to dispatch his competition. No Other Choice transplants The Ax, a 1997 crime thriller by Donald E. Westlake, to present-day South Korea, where seeking employment is a cutthroat business. Man-soo (Squid Game�s Lee Byung-hun) has it all: a loving wife and kids, the beautiful woodland house where he grew up, two exceptional dogs. Then, after 25 years at Solar Paper, he�s suddenly given the axe. Desperate to save the family home and retain the lifestyle to which they have become accustomed, when Man-soo learns of a new position going at Moon Paper, he hatches a diabolical plan to deal with his rivals. A chilling, effortlessly elegant state-of-the-nation story satirising workplace politics and cutthroat status-seeking, Park Chan-wook mixes wickedly absurd and chaotic set-pieces with a poignant underneath sense of the true awfulness of it all. It�s a tough job, but someone�s got to do it. Korean with English Subtitles