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The Villainess

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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 Go to Full Review Tara Brady Irish Times 09/19/2017
4/5
[The Villainness] is 2017's most breathtakingly unhinged action film. Go to Full Review 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. Go to Full Review Lonita Cook KCTV5 News at 9 09/14/2021
Immediately immersive, The Villainess has everything you want. Go to Full Review 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. Go to Full Review 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. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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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. See more 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 See more 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! See more 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 See more 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 See more 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. See more Read all reviews
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Jeong Byeong-gil

Director

Kim Ok-bin

Sukhui

Shin Ha-kyun

Jungsang

Sung-joon

Hyeonsu

Kim Seo-hyung

Gwonsuk

Jo Eun-ji

Kim Seon

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Movie Info

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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