Ballerina (III) (2023)
4/10
Team Mint-Choc.
23 October 2023
Jang Ok-Ju gets a call from her best friend Choi Min-hee, apologizing for being distant and inviting her to catch up. As Ok-Ju remembers her moments with Min-hee, a ballerina, gets heartbroken to find Min-hee dead at her place. She has written a letter with the name of the person responsible and request Ok-Ju to avenge her. Thus, begins Ok-Ju's revenge mission to find the guy and fulfil her friend's final wish.

It's a done to death story involving sex traffickers and losing a loved one for the crime pushing the lead to turn into an one woman army to take down everyone and everything they hold onto preciously. However, it is not the predictable story that feels like a downer but the slow narrative and lack of enough action scenes which makes this into a dull watch. Having to wait 40+ mins for the first action scene and then the next decent action being placed in the climax, offers very little entertainment value.

Apart from that, the story revolves around Ok-Ju and her memories of her best friend. So there is not much back story to the main lead to explain how is she so tough and for the best friend's predicament. The villain seems good but not much of a match to the lead and also the character's action in the final act leaves a lot to be explained. The screenplays sticks to the revenge action drama template but remains a stale narrative throughout.
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