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A teenage girl in highschool uniform (Lee So-yun) wanders the seedy
parts of town late at night, offering special "rides" to
interested (paying) customers, which include chasing her through the
streets at night, then raping her. At the climax of one such rides though,
the girl is caught by her teacher (Kim Dae-tong) - who seems to also act
as her pimp though. Eventually, he hands her over to three guys - who kill
her and take her apart. Teacher sews her back together and grants her a
second life as a cyborg. And she is no hooker no more, she's now a
assassin for hire. But she soon develops a will of her own, kills the
three men who have killed and dismembered her. Then she goes after teacher
- but she can't kill him, because there's a failsafe in her programming
(she's a cyborg, remember?) that won't allow her to shoot her teacher.
Then though, teacher's wife rushes in to tell him he has been promoted to
principal. No teacher no more, no failsafe - to the girl grows a gun out
of her groin to shoot him dead. In a way, Killing Machine
is avant garde gone wrong. Sure, director Nam Gee-woong knows how to
impress his audience with his weird, eccentric imagery, an odd but next to
perfect musical score, and surreal ideas. However that can't totally hide
the fact that he fails to tell an original story, instead relies on trash
mainstays, unimaginatively quotes films from La Femme Nikita to Tetsuo
a few times too often, fails to give the film a decent pacing, and
couldn't care less about his characters. All this said, the film is
short enough (1 hour) to not outstay its welcome and is still some fun to
watch - but that's just it, some fun, no more.
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