Great revenge thrillers have you feeling so strongly for wronged heroes that no amount of brutal retribution is too much - there is perverse pleasure in indulging in a revenge fantasy and seeing justice doled out in a violent way not allowed in real-life - but in this 2010 South Korean revenge thriller, the woman with the sickle (pictured) has thirty years of good reasons to hate her enemies (the villagers of Moo-do Island) but the reasons for her insane rage at all of the people on the island isn't made completely clear until after the bloodbath and so the violence is joy-free and horrific; you can't shake the idea, too, that some of the enemies are women who share in the heroine's plight, and several clumsy plot advancements also detract from what really could have been, with a few slight changes, a perfectly grisly pleasure.
★★★☆☆
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