Here are review links for this film submitted by our members:
- Alex Bentley @ CultureMap Dallas
- Excerpt: Like any film not in English, No Other Choice requires viewers to pay strict attention to the screen to get full enjoyment of the actors and their dialogue. While it doesn’t hit as hard as a comedy because of this factor, it’s still a greatly entertaining film whose underlying message makes it become a little deeper.
- [New] | Andrea Chase @ KillerMovieReviews.com
- Excerpt: Park gives us a Rorschach Test, making us walk on a razor’s edge as he considers the question of how to live an ethical life in an unethical world. Or worse, a world that is indifferent one way or the other.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: a deliciously dark satire that is highly amusing while packing a socioeconomic punch.
- Christopher Cross @ Asynchronous Media
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: Director Park Chan-wook’s dark comic thriller about a laid-off man’s hunt for a job and the pressures that push him to extremes.
- Panagiotis Kotzathanasis @ Asian Movie Pulse
- Excerpt: a darkly comic, frequently slapstick satire that blends economic anxiety, moral collapse, and Park’s trademark visual precision
- Kristian Lin @ Fort Worth Weekly
- Excerpt: Where Bong’s Parasite showed us how capitalism turns poor people against one another, this film demonstrates how the prosperous can just as easily become so desperate. These Korean filmmakers point out our society’s flaws and what they do to us better than just about any other country’s.
- Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: Park and company do a great job juggling all these threads into a coherent whole with fun connections that lead to hilarious misunderstandings and wild epiphanies insofar as how to better commit the crimes.
- Matt Oakes @
- Excerpt: ‘No Other Choice’ is an expertly constructed social satire from Park Chan-wook that harkens to its South Korean compatriot ‘Parasite’. Come for the bloody thrills, stay for the pertinent message about humanity and their employment crisis circa 2025.
- Dennis Schwartz @ dennisschwartzreviews.com
- Excerpt: Edgy and well-crafted hilarious black comedy.
- Sebastian Zavala @ Cinencuentro.com [Spanish]
- Excerpt: An uneven but entertaining satire of extreme capitalism and the perception of masculinity in Korea, where a man who has always worked in the same field wants to continue working in the same field, regardless of how he is treated.
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