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Review by Wrench for Teenage Hooker Became A Killing Machine [DVD]
(2 / 5)
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A very bizarre Korean revenge movie with elements of “Nikita” and “Robocop” thrown in. But this is in no a way your typical mainstream movie. It’s a very cheaply made independant film shot on a shakey DV camera and only lasts for a mere 60 minutes – 7 of which are wasted on a painfully slow moving opening credits sequence in which every citizen of Korea must’ve got a mention! And that’s really the flaw of the movie – too many unneccessarily long scenes which drag on and bore. Welcomed moments of gore do eventually occur in the latter half of the duration, but the revenge theme comes in to play very late on and is all too brief. It’s a cool plot idea having a female cyborg exacting revenge on her brutal, sadistic dismemberers, but it deserves a better treatment than this amateurish, artsy effort.
Review by Pretentious movie buff for Teenage Hooker Became A Killing Machine [DVD]
(4 / 5)
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You need to have patience with this…and you probably need to watch it twice.
Apart from winning the world championship for best movie title ever, as another reviewer mentions, there are elements of Nikita here and I’m going to throw Lynch’s Eraserhead and Ghost in the Shell in the mix as well.
Plot.
Hooker (unexplained why) gets pregnant by her teacher who hires three killers to knock her off by sawing her to pieces. She’s then brought back to life as an automaton and she is tasked to become an assassin for some agency. Her first assassination goes wrong, she is shot, her circuits go bananas and she regains her previous memories and wants revenge.
That’s it. Nothing really complicated there. But it’s more than that.
There’s an undercurrent of ‘disposal’ running through the movie: Disposable sex, disposable life, disposable body parts and disposable machine which hints at the protagonists feelings of lack of self worth. Indeed, the entire film is shot in a dream-like quality with grainy texture and surreal camera angles, imagery and sound indicating that she wishes to separate herself from the life she is living. Yet, conversely, when she *is* actually dreaming of a better future for herself, the (great) scene is shot with normal texture. Nice touch.
There’s a Christian allegory in there with the Hooker as the Madonna/Mother (whore?) yet it is she and not Junior that is resurrected while bathed in (holy?) light. Another nice touch. Stylish shooting scenes as well.
Unfortunately, some of the scenes are over long especially at the beginning e.g. the teacher’s mother and the opening credits taking forever forsaking the great imagery in the background and are quite tiresome as a result. Might put some off. Stick with it.
It’s not a masterpiece by any means. The director needed better editing to make the movie flow and more thought was required for the soundtrack which sounds ‘glued-on'(apart from the wonderful track over the opening and ending credits – I must get that) yet it is clear what they were trying to do. It’s not trash as some have described. It’s actually quite poignant.
Great “reversal of roles” in the very last seconds of the movie and the dancing/foreplay scene is just outrageously good.
67/100 Gets better the more you analyze it.
Review by Mr. G. Sturdy for Teenage Hooker Became A Killing Machine [DVD]
(1 / 5)
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… but that’s about it. The great premise is squandered. The story, what there is of it, is nonsensical, goes nowhere and is, to put it simply, dull. It looks awful too – it looks like it was shot on video and is too murky and dark. This seems like an intentional style on the part of the director but simply doesn’t work.
The extra, a thirty minute student film, has an equally interesting premise, but again fails to hold your attention.
Disappointing in al respects.
Review by Leeam for Teenage Hooker Became A Killing Machine [DVD]
(1 / 5)
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I am a fan of Eastern and alternative cinema and thought this might be something like Shinya Tsukamoto’s films Tetsuo and A Snake of June. I couldn’t have been more wrong. After the longest title sequence in history I sat and watched in amazement at how truly terrible this film is. It is badly written and acted, the lighting is terrible, the pacing painful and the violence unbelievable. It has no artistic qualities, original ideas or redeeming features. There is even a whole scene ripped off of the French film La Femme Nikita. Is that allowed? The film runs 60mins but feels like it goes on forever. It has obviously been released because of the fact that Eastern cinema is popular, the title and the exploitation elements but please, dont waste your time on this. I recently made my own short film which is much better than this. Bet i cant get it released on DVD though. Trash.