Assassination is a Korean film in the vein of Ocean’s 11 and from the same director as The Thieves (which was also very Ocean’s 11-like). This time, it’s not about a heist, and didn’t have a large cast. Instead it is like Ocean’s 11 because it had a lot of double crossing and switching of allegiances.

In Assassination, we go back to the 1930s where the Korean independence movement is trying to kill Japanese leaders and their Korean supporters in occupied Korea. Apparently, there is a lot of in-fighting amongst the various independence movements so everyone is trying to sell everyone else out. There are layers upon layers of assassins so the movie is how all of these plotlines work themselves out.

I saw this movie immediately after Monster Hunt and this movie was more stylish, exciting and interesting (I guess because it was more thrilling). However, in the end, it didn’t leave me any more satisfied than Monster Hunt even though there were no boring moments. So again, this movie gets three out of five stars.

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