The Movie: Ballerina / 발레리나
The Director: Lee Chung-hyun
The Cast: Jun Jong-seo, Kim Ji-hun, Park Yu-rim
The Story: Grieving the loss of a best friend she couldn't protect, an ex-bodyguard sets out to fulfill her dear friend's last wish: sweet revenge.
The Review:
You might be familiar with a movie franchise out there called John Wick which is about a former assassin who gets pulled back into the game after a very unfortunate event. This movie, which was written and directed by Lee Chung-hyun, could be described in exactly the same way, and I don't mean that as a bad thing. Wick went from popularizing the Gun-Fu sub-genre of action films to pretty much becoming a sub-genre of its own with more than a few filmmakers using it as a blueprint for potential box office success.
I wasn't sure what to expect from this film since, in my experience, Netflix is more of a quantity of quality type of content producer so their movies have more often than not have just been okay or maybe not very good at all. With that in mind, I was happy with the result. The movie stays in its lane without trying to reinvent the wheel so it was nice to just sit back and watch some good action. The only thing I knew about Park Yu-rim, the star of the movie, is that she has a role in Ryûsuke Hamaguchi's Drive My Car so I was excited to see her in a starring role here and she didn't disappoint.
Park';s action scenes are all very believable and she has a strong presence in front of the camera. I don't know if she has any specialized training, or if she's more like Rina Sawayama who translated her talents as a dancer and performer into some amazing martial arts choreography in John Wick 4. Either way, Park is very believable in the role as a trained killer and she pairs nicely with Kim Ji-hoon who plays Choi, the villainous antagonist of the story. Lots of great fight scenes and a very satisfying ending made this movie well worth the watch.
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