The Villainess

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The Villainess

Released Aug 25, 2017

2h 9m

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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

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

Aug 27, 2018

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Tara Brady

Irish Times

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

Rated: 4/5

Sep 19, 2017

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Kristy Puchko

Riot Material

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

Sep 18, 2017

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Lonita Cook

KCTV5 News at 9

Immediately immersive, The Villainess has everything you want.

Sep 14, 2021

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Don Shanahan

25YL (25 Years Later)

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

Rated: 3/5

Apr 12, 2021

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Brent McKnight

The Last Thing I See

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.

Rated: B+

Jul 1, 2020

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Mikel J.

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

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

07/06/25

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Prabudhjeet A

All the stars for the action sequences and every artist's energy, vision, hard work for this movie.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

06/22/24

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angela g

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

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

06/17/24

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Miguel M

Absolute bloody blast! You get so drawn in that it doesn't even feel like 2 hours. It's almost as if John Wick had 5 puppies killed and his wife died in front of him 10 times. Revenge on top of revenge!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

09/09/23

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Steve C

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

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/11/23

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Khepri N

Camera angles are crazy!!!!! Great action film

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

12/29/22

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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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