Kill Boksoon

Perhaps I viewed this at the wrong time, but I’m starting to feel “assassin” fatigue and haven’t even seen John Wick 4 (or the final season of Barry for that matter) yet. That aside, Kill Boksoon takes the typical sleek assassin story and grafts a single-mother/teen-daughter story onto it. Gil Bok-soon (Jeon Do-yeon, get it?) has an “A” rating as a contract killer for MK. ENT., her company. She has a 100% success rate and is worshipped by her peers and underlings. What she doesn’t have a 100% success rate in is understanding her darn angsty daughter (Kim Si-a) who is exploring lesbian proclivities with schoolmates. There’s simply too much here about Gil Jae-young (the daughter) that we don’t need to see. Cut a lot of this and the story doesn’t drag for 2 hours and 17 minutes. Fortunately, there are some fun and exciting fight scenes and training scenes — the training facility was the highlight of the movie and I could’ve used more of that — even if the “killing 20 guys in a crowded bar when like half of them have guns” gets ridiculous. In Kill Bill, at least it was 1 v. 88 with swords. The way she can foresee what will happen to her if she makes a particular move (like playing 3-D chess) is a cool effect. A plot hole for me also comes in the form of the mere stupidity of much of the plot. *Here be spoilers* Bok-soon is assigned a “show” that she refuses to carry out and because of this, she must die. This is moronic. She’s a top asset and it is nonsensical that seemingly intelligent people would destroy one of their most prized assets, assassin codes be damned. Assassin content is cooling on me, especially if it’s gonna drag. This is a good movie, but if you’re feeling the fatigue, maybe put it on the back burner and revisit it sometime next year.

Boksoon kills for a living - but when alliances at work go wrong, she struggles to balance being a mom and an mercenary.

Una entretenida pelicula de asesinos, ¡Quiero mas peliculas como esta!

Need a sequel. Great film.

It was a great movie totally worth the watch and Gil Bookson was an awesome main character

B- the story builds up well and the ending was good but calling this a perfect movie would be a long stretch.

The movie takes a look at the lighter side of the assassin business. The director was able to draw a balance between humor and serious side of the business. Dialogue was witty and the pace was fast.

This was a sort of Korean John Wick if John Wick was a single-mom. It worked surprisingly well.

What a Netflix movie. It has everything from an amazing art direction to a well put casting, on point locations, amazing wide angle lenses. Except there is no story. Netflix, lately in love with making visually stunning movies with a big narrative flops. Kill Boksoon is not different from that. It's an unsuccessful replica of Kill Bill or any other female anti hero vengeance film. Even the so called single working tough mom theme is far from questioning the position of modern woman. You ended up just watching Jeon Do-Yeon's incredible acting which sadly not enough to carry the movie alone.

Asian movies in my opinion get the endings wrong BUT this one I'm screeming happy about,FINALLY this director got it right thank you it was a slow start but the fight scenes omg amazing I'm truly blown away by this movie give it a full viewing don't skip parts hey at the end if it's not your cup of tea what a cpl hours but you'll be as happy as I am I love Asian films in general and this one rocked