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No Other Choice

Park Chan-wook  �  CJ ENM / MUBI

Vengeance doesn't need a reason. But justice might.

DirectorPark Chan-wook
StarsLee Byung-hun, Kim Go-eun, Ryu Jun-yeol
StudioCJ ENM / MUBI
Runtime2h 18min � Rated R
8.2
IMDb
97%
RT Score
$38M worldwide
Box Office

Park Chan-wook returns with a darkly comedic revenge thriller that may be the most purely enjoyable film of his career � ferociously funny, morally outrageous, and technically flawless.

Park Chan-wook Unleashed

At 97% on RT, No Other Choice has landed as one of the most acclaimed films of the 2025�2026 award season. Park's first film since Decision to Leave is a tonal high-wire act � a revenge thriller that keeps finding genuine comedy in its escalating violence, like watching a Rube Goldberg machine built entirely from human suffering and perfect timing. Lee Byung-hun plays Ko Guk, a mild-mannered accounting executive who discovers his entire career was built on embezzlement by his superiors � and decides, with meticulous precision, to dismantle their lives one carefully engineered disaster at a time.

"Park Chan-wook at his most playful and his most devastating � No Other Choice is the revenge thriller as dark comedy of manners, and it's immaculate."

� Cahiers du Cin�ma

The Verdict

An essential Park Chan-wook film and a masterpiece of genre filmmaking. The 97% RT score reflects near-universal recognition that this is something special. Seek it out on MUBI immediately.

? Our Verdict

Park Chan-wook returns with a darkly comedic revenge thriller that may be the most purely enjoyable film of his career � ferociously funny, morally outrageous, and technically flawless.