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Recently, I’ve started going blindly into new Korean movies, and I’m glad I didn’t read the synopsis for this one on this site, because it reveals something that had a big impact on me while watching the movie. So I hope you can also watch it with a clear mind and just let go to enjoy it as much as I did. For me, this is almost a perfect action thriller, and after watching it, I became interested in reading the novel as well.

It’s enough to know that the main character is a female assassin. Although she’s a woman and old, her strength and skill were quite believable—except maybe in the final act, where things got a bit exaggerated. But it still worked within the spirit of the movie. The heroine’s name is important, and it changes throughout the story as we see her in different stages of her life.

The story flows quickly, with intense, brutal, and sometimes hard-to-watch fight scenes. So for action-genre lovers, this movie has all the right ingredients: masterful and serious action, a compelling and interesting story, and even a thoughtful drama about the value of life. The producers and actors managed to make us care about the characters, feel their pain, and ultimately hope for a better future.