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)
类型: 动作 / 悬疑 / 犯罪
本来勉强打个三分，但爱了这句话：“我是害怕究竟带她来到一个怎样的世界” 这个世界不是非黑即白，但是我们应当追求正义和分辨是非，而不是拿这些话去劝人权衡利益。
老戏骨飙戏，很有看头，就是故事陈旧了些，为了最后的反转，多加一颗星吧。
法庭戲太弱了，漏洞也多，應該打電話處理的事非要留下語音信息，一個不誠實證人讓案件早早失去懸念，導致兩位律師立場轉變生硬。
整个剧情和节奏都很一般。在感情纠缠中，官二代杀了富二代，找了穷小子背锅，看起来是律师“伪造”文书实现公义。但实际是富二代老爸用钱疏通了阻碍拿到了证据，在法庭上直接锤死了官二代。
香港还是那个香港，港片也还是那个港片，时代在变，观众在变，香港的一切好像都没有变
确实挺难看的。用了这么强的卡司，最终只说了一个这样的故事，作为老戏骨廖启智的遗作 确实很让人失望。一级指控，指的是饰演大律师的方中信为一桩铁证如山的奸杀案翻案的刑事案件。作为一部悬疑电影，真的可谓毫无悬疑可言。在女性被害现场抓捕一夜风流的男人一定不是凶手、而时时刻刻给予存在感的青年议员候选人又太有嫌疑、包括方中信出手告知富商议员儿子杀害女儿真相、富商中了方中信的离间计要为女儿向议员报仇、甚至连最后方中信饰演的律师伪造文书却没有被入案，一系列的操作都太理想化了。导演很明显想要通过影像来营造一个明镜高悬的社会假象，找几个老演员上台演一个不走心的剧本就想套这么大一顶帽子，这也太糊弄人了吧。还有，香港电影可不可以不要再让鲍起静客串奶奶的角色了，收割的只是情怀、不能为电影赚口碑。
2021.10.08 边画画边看完，纪念廖叔
还能一看的粤语电影，前半剧情铺垫是不错的，可惜尾端转折过于理想，编上复杂的情节却只有简陋的细节。
垃圾啊！前面搞得困难重重，后面分分钟就搞定了这么大的集团。郭老板的倒戈也是太快了一点
与其说是律政剧，不如说是复仇片，剧情依靠老戏骨张力十足，可整条主线无关法律公正，只有政商钱，有些剧情处理得当（控方律师），可惜以后没有这种片了。
2020.12.06武汉到西安北G96次。端正的香港法律电影。
剧情还算紧凑，但制作一般，演员表现良莠不齐，整体中规中矩。这将会不会是第一部先上网络后上院线的院线片？！2.5星。。。
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
把电视剧浓缩成电影，果然也不是个个都能精华。放到20年前，这电影绝对OK，现在看，只能有种TVB江郎才尽的感觉，曾志威，李逸峰也救不了。
港片TVB化的又一个代表 话说期待方中信回来演港剧呀
我觉得拍的挺好的，只是从结果来说，并不算是法律的胜利，如果死者不是富二代，我想会是另一个结局，哎，可悲
还好吧，律政强人电影版。方中信怎么又年轻啦。曾江更老啦。智叔还是那么好演技。
看网站评分骗进去看，结果真是剧情简单，加戏过多。。。
一晃，廖叔走了近一年了。遗作一级指控依然很香港，故事、演技都很港。有人说，这个故事经不起推敲，最后法律没有取得胜利，平民的胜利只因富商对女儿的爱。可，人生不就是这样吗？
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