The Villainess

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The Villainess

2017

2h 9m

Action

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Honed from childhood to be an elite assassin, Sook-hee embarks on a rampage of violence and revenge to finally earn her freedom and escape her past.

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Critics Consensus

The Villainess offers enough pure kinetic thrills to satisfy genre enthusiasts -- and carve out a bloody niche for itself in modern Korean action cinema.

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

AWFJ.org

08/27/2018

The Villainess is an action film that simultaneously echoes the spirit of 90s Asian action movies, the cinema of Park Chan-wook and even Euro crime-thriller classics...and yet feels...contemporary in its unrelenting energy and aesthetic polish

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Tara Brady

Irish Times

09/19/2017

4/5

[The Villainness] is 2017's most breathtakingly unhinged action film.

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Kristy Puchko

Riot Material

09/18/2017

The Villainess is an ambitious, exhilarating, and harrowing film that does South Korea's tradition of top-notch thrillers proud.

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Lonita Cook

KCTV5 News at 9

09/14/2021

Immediately immersive, The Villainess has everything you want.

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Don Shanahan

25YL (25 Years Later)

04/12/2021

3/5

"The Villainess" spins with dynamic energy of wanton mayhem and operatic displays of graphic violence when the talking stops and confrontations begin.

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Brent McKnight

The Last Thing I See

07/01/2020

B+

Frenzied and kinetic, The Villainess careens all over the place with reckless abandon, where it hits manic, thrilling, dangling-off-a-speeding-bus-while-wielding-a-hatchet highs.

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g J

@g.username May 28

It's beautifully shot, but that's about it. The story is silly and nonsensical, and the run-time is over-bloated.

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revolver.0 8

@Revolver08 Apr 15

this is a soap opera level of story and acting mixed with test footage from future goof parade of diy youtube vid

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Jim M.

@RT98186106 Mar 24

Just searching for anything and FOUND THIS GEM! The Camera work on the action scenes ALONE are worth the watch!

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Mikel J.

@mrjackson 07/06/2025

Fantastic POV hallway fight scene. Impelling acting and characters. Confusing aspect with flashbacks and “secret@ reveals - too much expectation subversion diminishes a product

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angela g

@Sunflower378 06/17/2024

i did not like that they killed a baby but i did like the action in it and the cliffhanger ending sucked

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Steve C

@RT19610513 03/11/2023

Cool opening sequence. The hallway fight for Old Boy would not have been that good, if we're done like this.

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Synopsis

Honed from childhood to be an elite assassin, Sook-hee embarks on a rampage of violence and revenge to finally earn her freedom and escape her past.

Director: Jeong Byeong-gil
Screenwriter: Jeong Byeong-gil, Jeong Byeongsik
Distributor: Well Go USA
Production Co: Apeitda, Next Entertainment World (NEW)
Genre: Action
Original Language: Korean
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 25, 2017, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 7, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $27.7K
Runtime: 2h 9m

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