Pagwa (2025)
Genre: Thriller / Action
Duration: 133 minuten
Alternative titles: The Old Woman with the Knife / 파과
Country:
South Korea
Directed by: Kyu-dong Min
Stars: Lee Hye-yeon, Kim Sung-cheol and Kim Mu-yeong
IMDb score:
6,1 (1.630)
Releasedate: 1 May 2025
Pagwa plot
"Now I see who you are"
A sixty-something woman has already killed many people as a contract killer. She meets a young man who wants to build a similar career and takes him under her wing to teach him the trade. While a close friendship grows between them, it later turns out that their paths crossed years earlier.
Reviews & comments
filmkul
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- 2601 messages
- 2323 votes
Mediocre action thriller. The story is decent but doesn't offer enough to fill the entire running time. The execution isn't entirely successful either. The pacing is a bit slow, and with a few exceptions, it's not very exciting. The action scenes aren't particularly spectacular and are rather monotonous. Furthermore, the visuals are quite dark and drab. The acting is otherwise okay. 2.5
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blurp194
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- 5681 messages
- 4306 votes
It is mainly the somewhat predictable "lost in translation" that kills this film for me, I think – that happens to me quite often with Asian films, and especially those from Korea.
The beginning is quite promising, but somewhere along the way I lose track of exactly what the main characters' motivation is, and that never comes back. Some nice action, sure, but not enough to keep the film interesting in itself.
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orbital
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- 168 messages
- 607 votes
I do have a soft spot for Korean films, and this one is pretty okay. Admittedly, it's not top-notch and we've seen these kinds of storylines by now, but the action is good and "godmother" is a unique character who has to take on one of the people she victimized in the past. It fits on a beer coaster, and that's often the case with this type of action movie, but that's okay.
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