The job market can be murder and looking for work is often a cutthroat affair. Park Chan-wook, the South Korean director of Oldboy, The Handmaiden and Decision To Leave, takes that very literally.
Based on Donald Westlake’s 1997 novel “The Ax”, No Other Choice is a satirical dark comedy which feels a bit too timely for comfort. It follows how family man and successful paper industry expert Man-su (Lee Byung-hun) is made redundant after 25 years of good and loyal service, courtesy of an American buy-out and a series of budget cuts based on how AI will apparently solve all our problems.
