No Other Choice
2025
Worth it. Park Chan-wook delivers a wickedly sharp corporate black comedy that critics have rallied behind at 97%. Lee Byung-hun anchors it with a skillfully hapless performance.
Why it's worth it
- Critics gave it 97% from 241 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes
- Audiences loved it: 93%
- High on IMDb: 7.5 out of 10
Critics 97%Audience 93%140 min15+
Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Shown in UAE cinemas from 27 September to 1 October 2026
About
No Other Choice is a 2025 South Korean black comedy thriller film co-written, produced, and directed by Park Chan-wook. Based on The Ax by Donald Westlake, the film stars Lee Byung-hun, Son Ye-jin, Park Hee-soon, Lee Sung-min, Yeom Hye-ran, and Cha Seung-won. It is the second film adaptation of the novel, after the 2005 French-language feature The Axe directed by Costa-Gavras, to whom No Other Choice is dedicated in the closing credits. The film follows a desperate paper industry expert who decides to kill off his competition to be assured of the job he seeks to maintain his way of life.
- Runtime
- 140 min
- Rating
- 15+
- Language
- Korean
- Genre
- Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Ratings
- IMDb
- 7.5
