A review of No Other Choice (2025)

I’m not really a Park Chan-wook guy because I find his work pretty cold; when I watched The Sympathizer recently it was more because I was interested in what a collaboration between Park and Don McKellar looked like, which turned out to be, well, perfectly watchable, if not to damn it with faint praise. Interestingly, No Other Choice has very much the same preoccupations as The Sympathizer: that the people in charge are greedy and stupid; that if you want to survive, you’re going to have to step on the people you should be in solidarity with; and that you’re