[This story contains major spoilers from No Other Choice .]

The great Korean auteur Park Chan-wook has produced several undisputed masterpieces over his three-decade career, but none so urgently of-the-moment as No Other Choice , his latest black comedy thriller.

A passion project more than 20 years in the making, No Other Choice is adapted from Donald Westlake’s 1997 novel The Ax . During its long gestation, the film was at one point set up at Netflix as an English-language thriller, before a tangle of development complications brought it home as a Korean feature starring two of the country’s most beloved screen icons: Squid Game star and perennial leading man Lee Byung-hun, and national sweetheart Son Ye-jin.

[This story contains major spoilers from No Other Choice .]

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