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，真是拍着玩的？知道总拍烂片只能自我调侃一下
尼古拉斯凯奇：大家镇定一下，我要开始飙戏了！（但是无效飙戏）本质上和《采访》差不多，玩梗抖机灵驱动的恶搞喜剧唠嗑片，剥削明星最后那一丁点剩余价值，除了偶尔的迷影梗之外，看到尼古拉斯扮演中年危机的尼古拉斯凯奇真的好无聊啊，絮絮叨叨的，反而还多了一点油腻（？）另外一点在意的是，蒂凡尼哈迪斯怎么胖成这样了！
PP和凯奇搞什么傻白甜bromance笑死我了
剧情很套路，但还是恭喜Cage还完所有债务，希望真的能王者归来。
影片最精彩就是完全粉丝向的前三分之一，给脑残粉的惊喜，密集埋梗加上凯奇迷死人的嗓音，看开心了，由衷地为凯奇在片里的状态感到高兴！
nick fucking cage's massive journey
两年前初看此片剧情简介时，我脑补的是《成为约翰·马尔科维奇》那个档次的电影来着，事实证明不能太高估凯奇的朋友圈水准。
谁说Cage过气了？虽然never his fans, 大烂片实在太多，但演技一直在线不可否认。中年危机的类型片里不算最出彩的，停留在嘴炮比较多，还是要为Cage鼓掌，好演员，债还清了，快好好挑剧本吧！
还挺有趣的，关键是气氛越来越好，不过如果不联系凯奇本身的故事。也不会有这么好的效果。
震惊，尼古拉斯凯奇还好意思吐槽女儿品味？！我现在相信有导演和编剧是为某演员量身定制剧本了。
《卡里加里博士的小屋》《帕丁顿熊2》《卡萨布兰卡》
故事走向好莱坞套路好似凯奇20年前的《改编剧本》
卧靠....收藏室里那串绿珠珠！！想要！！
电影中的电影，演员里的演员。
尼古拉斯凯奇：大家镇定一下，我要开始飙戏了！（但是无效飙戏）本质上和《采访》差不多，玩梗抖机灵驱动的恶搞喜剧唠嗑片，剥削明星最后那一丁点剩余价值，除了偶尔的迷影梗之外，看到尼古拉斯扮演中年危机的尼古拉斯凯奇真的好无聊啊，絮絮叨叨的，反而还多了一点油腻（？）另外一点在意的是，蒂凡尼哈迪斯怎么胖成这样了！
感觉这几年只要尼古拉斯·凯奇的作品出来就会有人吹“翻身之作”，《疯狂父母》吹过，《曼蒂》吹过，《猪》也吹过，连《脏话史》都吹过，如今又轮到这部电影了。话说回来，凯奇要真的靠这部电影翻身，那是他的运气也是好莱坞的悲哀，这片子要说差也不差，但要说好也不至于，它和那些拉到欧洲的喜剧动作片没多大区别，也许真的是对凯奇降低了期待值，才会觉得这部电影还行吧。
又一部预告片比电影好看的平庸之作。本来把自己现实的 struggle 放在电影里戏剧化地表现这个点子挺好的，结果电影本身还不及预告片十分之一好笑，也更没多深刻和感情真挚，就，清汤寡水的无聊。
剧组的钱是不是都用来买尼古拉斯凯奇的周边了喂！
我本以为是凯奇借着自嘲来翻身的一部片，没想到只有自嘲了 这还翻个屁啊，烂片又多一部！
一个非常普通的犯罪/亲情剧本，但因为有了尼古拉斯凯奇玩命的自黑，也有了而化腐朽为神奇般的力量，他那份在沉浸多少烂片里都不会洗去的天才之重，落魄影帝的失败人生也摇身一变成了唐吉诃德式的英雄主义，那还是粉丝们翘首以盼的凯奇，我们等你回来真的等太久了。
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