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)
这啥玩意这是，这个剧本毫无悬念又毫无看点，要不是廖叔遗作（也不知道是不是最后一部），我真没打算看
男二律师演的太水了吧，是带资进组吗？故事 演技 节奏不行，电影都不如电视剧，不如TVB 不如傲骨贤妻里的一集内容。
还蛮讨厌这种解决方式（骗人才能达到的司法公正）。
故事老套，演技浮夸，节奏稀烂，毫无悬念，甚至内涵都没有。什么名导名编老演员已经救不了香港电影，就像光靠ps美颜已经撑不起剧里那几张松弛的脸。
只能说新一代的港片编剧同新一代的香港演员一样青黄不接、乏善可陈，全剧都靠着老戏骨的支撑。
如果庭审之后，再倒序摊牌的细节，影片的得分会更高一点
方中信谭耀文廖叔鲍姐曾江陈保元个个好戏 // “我地系辩护律师，唔系福尔摩斯”
评分咋也么低，居然都没及格。开头一段有点多此一举，后面都还可以，转承起合都有，也有一定的完整性，对现实也有讽刺意义，个人感受是没有评分那么差。
想表达的东西是深沉的，但是戏剧结构的张力稍有不足。但依旧是港片的熟悉配方，舒服。
剧本一般，有点牵强，对抗性不够。女一很美，扮演死者的女三也很不错。
法庭的戏有点像很多年前看过的刘德华和叶德娴的一部电影（太久远不知道有没记串）。看前面就能猜到后面的戏份，就很类型片吧。只是这几年联想到现实里的香港，法庭羊毛卷真是看的很不顺眼。
电影本身真的是模式化痕迹过重，全靠一群老戏骨演技支撑。
方中信演律师还是挺有气质的。李逸峰在酒吧认识漂亮的美女，一夜邂逅就变成了杀人嫌疑犯。这个案件还是比较简单，有点以前TVB港剧的感觉。
ps.对于很少看港片的朋友真的由衷建议看港片一定要看原声版，国语配音真的很影响效果
2.0 / 阿Sir，我是观众，我不是弱智啊
从一开始就是找他爸不香吗……看到有人评论 东邪西毒，秒啊
屎到爆炸，旧桥旧戏，好似睇紧90年代TVB刑事侦缉档案，以后呢d甘嘅老戏骨磨皮加九流剧本可以统称为TVB大网剧。
昨天晚上一边写证据目录一边看的，感慨就是关键得有钱才行，有钱能使磨推鬼。
方中信还是那么帅，张强还是那个常胜将军，不过这个案子的反转来的太过突兀，不够合理。但最后张强的话还是很令人动容。
这个官司太简单了……可以压缩到90分钟的……
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