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  • Summary: On October 26th, 1979, the president of South Korea was assassinated at his own dinner table by the head of the KCIA. This is the story of that fateful night. (Kino International)

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  1. Positive: 8 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 11
  3. Negative: 0 out of 11
  1. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Sean Axmaker
    83
    The funniest film you'll see this year about a political assassination.
  2. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Noel Murray
    83
    Though The President's Last Bang is undeniably dense-with more than a dozen significant characters-the particulars aren't too tough to understand.
  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Dana Stevens
    60
    Tight, sober and strangely comical.

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  1. jackb.
    10
    One of the best movies I've seen all year. Beautiful camera and sound work, excellent pacing, strong acting by the leads, and set in a slighty ironic-black-comic mood entirely appropriate to the absurd-yet-entirely-serious circumstances.… Expand
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