After getting laid off from his job at a paper manufacturing company, Man-soo (Lee Byung-hun) sends his resume to a rival company and hatches a plan to kill the other employees competing with him for the position in No Other Choice. Writer/director Park Chan-wook and his co-writers, Don McKellar, Lee Kyoung-mi and Lee Ja-hye, have made a clunky, overlong and tedious dark comedy. The plot eventually loses steam and just becomes over-the-top, mean-spirited and exhausting while making it very hard to care for Man-soo. His wife, Lee Min (Son Ye-jin), seems more likable, but underdeveloped like most of the female characters. Does it sound funny to you when another woman sucks the venom out of a snakebite on Man-soon's leg while he FaceTimes his wife? concurrently? Or when the woman mistakenly tells him to raise his leg above his heart instead of lowering it below his heart? The attempts at comedy are more physical rather than any funny lines. There are also issues with the film's blend of tones because it's hard to take anything seriously when the plot seems so outrageous and preposterous almost like a satire, but with not enough bite. There have been better films that have tackled the issue of job loss in a family with more humor, wit and heart, i.e. Tokyo Sonata. Keep in mind that this won't be the film for you if you can't handle teeth porn---there's a scene involving teeth that will make you squeamish like in Bring Her Back. At a running time of 2 hours and 19 minutes, No Other Choice  opens in select theaters on December 25th, 2025 via NEON.