‘The Assassin(s)’ Review: A Riveting South Korean Popcorn Thriller About a Real Assassination

Hur Jin-ho and his dazzling cast turn a political mystery into mainstream entertainment.

By Siddhant Adlakha

Siddhant Adlakha

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Hur Jin-ho’s star-studded “The Assassin(s)” turns the holes in a public investigation into an imaginative mystery along the lines of Oliver Stone’s “JFK.” Like Stone’s provocative thriller, Hur crafts a clockwork political saga sure to spark curiosities about the attempted assassination of strongman South Korean prime minister Park Chung-hee in 1974, which resulted in the death of his wife, first lady Yuk Young-soo, as well as a young bystander.

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