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)
完成度不错的港片了，香港电影里却是一直在讨论现实和公理的问题，不过如今很多港片已经都在描绘精英，而少了以前的草根和市井了…
廖启智和曾江在船上的对手戏好爽！
演员很努力地在表演了 但剧作实在太普通了
编剧撑不起来的一部电影，硬是让演员给撑起来了。当看到最后游艇上智叔和曾江对飙戏的那一段的时候，忽然想到斯人均已逝，忍不住的有点感伤。香港真的不缺好演员，只是现在还找得到好的故事么？还等得到么？
陈家乐一如既往的太嫩，担不起大任。
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还蛮讨厌这种解决方式（骗人才能达到的司法公正）。
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。
从电影的角度来说，这个收尾真是很牵强，但同为父母，我倒是能理解这样的安排和表达。
作为律政剧，它把律师们当了空气；作为刑侦剧，它把警察们当了空气；作为主旋律剧，它把观众当了空气。三星给还在坚守香港电影的老戏骨。
至少找个不是法盲的编剧来写法律戏吧，这庭审基本可以算是看过的法庭戏里面最傻逼的，一板一眼却感觉比白面包青天里的还搞笑
Nice！方中信化身正义律师，不畏强权，捍卫公理，最后的自辩部分很精彩。廖启智终于演了回首富，不再是微不足道的小跟班，气场不输曾江。
这个谭耀文到处搞点客串啊，太理想了，也就不好玩了。像别人说的如果死者是个普通人咋办啊？
情节来说不过不失，老中演员的演技满分，青年演员就一般般，结果上说童话故事吧。
即便是一个阳光普照的社会，也总有阴影，也总得吃饭，既然公义不能当饭吃，那就吃饱饭再行动了，雷律师在这一点上想的清清楚楚明明白白
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说好的公平正义……结果最后还是靠黑吃黑狗咬狗实现了公平正义……有点浪费这演员阵容啊……
脸皮薄的人，当不了“好”律师。不会忽悠的人，赚不了“大”钱………反正我做不到
如果死者的父亲不是超级富豪，能与有权者平起平坐，故事的走向还会是正义战胜邪恶吗，鸡蛋与高墙的力量悬殊实在是天壤之别。因此结尾处那段说教真是太教条了。与其说法治，不如说法律是有钱权者的玩具，需要的时候怎么利用都可以。演员们尤其是老戏骨演技真是精湛。
-冲着智叔最后一部电影
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