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- 2021
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 2 h 11 m
- 2021
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 2 h 11 m
Summary Hiding out in Jeju Island following a brutal tragedy, a wronged mobster with a target on his back connects with a woman who has her own demons.
Directed By: Park Hoon-jung
Written By: Park Hoon-jung
- 2021
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 2 h 11 m
- 2021
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 2 h 11 m
Night in Paradise
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6.7
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Summary Hiding out in Jeju Island following a brutal tragedy, a wronged mobster with a target on his back connects with a woman who has her own demons.
Directed By: Park Hoon-jung
Written By: Park Hoon-jung
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
59
17% Positive
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83% Mixed
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While the visual and thematic richness of Night in Paradise could adequately carry the film on their own, the wry comedic tone that often infiltrates even the darkest exchanges between characters enhances the overall emotional payoff.
Leisurely pacing rather draws it all out a bit, but there’s real inventiveness to the way Park wrong-foots the viewer and handles the operatic displays of gunfire and death – and the leads are rather charming.
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Generally Favorable
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Generally Favorable
Based on 12 User Ratings
6.7
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You just wish that director Park had managed to execute the film as a whole with the crisp efficacy of some of his individual sequences.
Night in Paradise contains a lot of good plotting, several amusing characters and a decent array of exciting action scenes and bloodshed. But it is indulgently long.
Park makes a noble attempt to suffuse the meditative soulfulness of Takeshi Kitano’s “Fireworks” into the propulsive genre tropes established by more recent (and more Korean) forebearers like “A Bittersweet Life,” but he just can’t find the same poetry in that silent pain as he’s able to produce from the screaming kind.
Night In Paradise is an exceptional resource for anyone trying to understand how stories can be told within the frame, even as it consistently trips on its relentless grimdark tendencies. There are no pleasant people to be found here; there is no path that doesn’t lead to the grave.
Production Company
Goldmoon Film
Release Date Apr 9, 2021
Duration 2 h 11 m
Rating TV-MA
Tagline No Safe Haven
Awards
Buil Film Awards
• 5 Nominations
Blue Dragon Awards
• 1 Win & 4 Nominations
Chunsa Film Art Awards
• 1 Nomination
