‘Villainess’: a South Korean ‘La Femme Nikita’
“The Villainess” doesn’t waste a frame getting started, as an unstoppable female assassin mows down scores of bad guys who quickly ooze blood and crash out of windows. It’s just a day’s work for Sook-hee, the anti-heroine of this South Korean adrenaline rush.
Director Byung-gil Jung, a trained stuntman, is an expert in staging action set-pieces, and for fans of dazzlingly violent shootouts on motorcycles and buses, this brutal revenge tale should be right up your alley, even if the proceedings often get sidetracked with a confusing back story.