Michael Hanake meets the Blair Witch Project in Kim Gok's Exhausted, a vicious kick in the pants to everyone in the audience, all in the name of "style." A man meets a mute woman, and as any reasonable person would do in such a situation, makes her his prostitute. But the pimping is the least of our problems. As we get exhausted by the grainy faux-16mm camerawork, the film gets increasingly deranged. The closest thing we get to a sympathetic character is the pimp, simply because he's got too much self-respect to fuck a mute whore. Everyone else is either a gory mess, or a gory mess in disguise. Even the prostitute, which even a thug like Lars von Trier would make likeable, comes off as a delirious scary woman whose shrieks strike like blows to the jugular.
Kim Gok has seemingly abandoned the Marxist critiques of his short films, going instead for mindless brutality which culminates in an endless bloody freak-show involving, among other things, a pair of scissors going where pairs of scissors should not go. In the middle of the bloodbath, we get an extended long take of the beaten prostitute's near-dead face, but it does not elicit sympathy or pity. In fact, images of the victim only make us shy away in shock. (Indeed, the extended sequence led to continuous walk-outs during the Pusan screening.) The long take invites us to stare, but it assumes we're as sadistic as the victimizer (and the film) is. Meanwhile the sound-effects (mostly a rumbling bassline that shakes the theater) pulsates with pure wickedness. With Hanake, shock creates reflection, which asks that we be critical. Here, we only want to escape. I suppose Exhausted has some virtues; the shots of drilling machines and factories provide a mesmerizing phallic backdrop to the pimp and prostitute's pursuits. But everything else hurts too much. At least Kim Ki-duk lets us breathe. Exhausted makes Bad Guy look like Lady and the Tramp. (asiaarts.ucla.edu)
现在的港片又到了需要强心剂的年代，后劲愈发不足了。这不仅仅是编剧的事情，更是包括剪辑在内一众团队都需要思考的问题。
廖启智和曾江相继离开……
这种电影可以一边吃饭一边看，不怕中间落下剧情
真的法律面前，人人平等就好了～中规中矩的一部港片，也应该是智叔生前的最后一部电影吧？R.I.P
比其他观众还不能忍的一项就是配音，即使不用港片常用的南方团体，也可以让TVB国语配音部来出演，现在的版本，就想是找了个网配小社团匆匆完工之作。
虽然最后反转的手段比较不够给力，做假报告和收买黑警有点作弊的感觉，但整体还算不错的港式律政片。缺少重磅卡司和缺少动作元素，导致这部影片还是只能停留在表层，无法深入挖掘更吸引人的内幕。
唯一就是船上那场爆发的戏到位了。
感觉像没有高潮，就很平缓的叙事，最后感觉还是资本家的胜利，如果不是有钱的爸爸，真要制裁有钱权的人，估计真会像隔壁沉默的真相那样惨烈吧，害
2019年亚洲电影节的“技术原因”，捱到现在才终见天日；感觉若非廖启智和“扫黑”大潮，也是困难。立项时对四位主演争锋斗戏的预期，被淹没为一个有些轻佻简陋的律政剧“单集案件”；其实完全可以说，这是《律政强人》“Kent”与“KC”的后续吧。
老戏骨演得好，剧本麻麻地了，警察的角色太单薄，太突然。
这叫打官司吗？最后就是说服有钱老板舍弃利益集团把谋杀自己女儿的真凶绳之以法的故事啊！换个没钱没权的试试？
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相当于TVB律政剧的水准，最后开BUG把罪犯绳之以法，看着很爽，实际上毫无章法。
雖然老戲骨不少，無奈劇本只是在一味重複。粵語原聲還是比較道地。資金加速崩塌/流失/蒸發。
最后还是要靠权贵内斗翻盘，没看出法律正义在哪？
廖启智遗作，造型完全可以拿来演个跛豪之类的黑老大，对廖启智印象最深的是门徒里被砍掉手的警察
我愿意把这当作律政强人续集来看 如果廖启智也演律师就更完美
加一星给过世的智叔 无论他是不是在今年过世的 我都认为他是这部电影里面表演最有力量最好的
其实，这片子没有表达完整，但是，在最后方中信的陈词里，把本片引入高潮部分！起到了画龙点睛的作用！
方中信还是一样棒👍🏻一部靠演技撑起来的电影，让原本略显粗糙的剧本，变幻出了紧凑的节奏。老戏骨们看着就是舒心。
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