A hit or a miss?
Actress Son Ye Jin recently made her comeback to the entertainment industry with No Other Choice, a movie directed by Park Chan Wook and co-starred by Lee Byung Hun.
The movie premiered at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival on August 29, 2025, and garnered critical acclaim. After its domestic premiere at the Busan International Film Festival on September 17, it was released theatrically in South Korea on September 24, KST.
A day after its release, the movie has already earned a 100% rating on the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer. This rating is based on critic’s score of the movie and not the audience’s. However, getting a 100% on the Tomatometer in itself is an impressive feat.
However, this score has sparked some heavily divided reactions among Korean netizens, some of whom felt the movie was not good enough to deserve such rave reviews from critics.
- “I’m looking forward to it again…”
- “I thought it was worth watching. I think the story metaphorically represents modern society.”
- “Opinions are really divided.”
- “Critic reviews and audience reviews are always different…”
- “When something does well overseas, domestic opinions tend to change too. I wonder if that’ll happen with this one.”
- “It just wasn’t really my taste. Something felt awkward and exaggerated. It didn’t feel like it was set in Korea, but it didn’t feel foreign either. It felt kind of detached, like it was floating.”
- “As soon as I saw it, it felt exactly like Park Chan Wook. I figured international audiences would love it.”
Source: www.koreaboo.com