India, Dec. 22 -- South Korean auteur Park Chan-wook might have made his bleakest film yet with No Other Choice, which takes an acidic shot at a society where capitalism has pervasively altered the way human beings co-exist. Everyone thinks for themselves, competes against one another, and strives to be successful. But at the cost of what? The director behind films like Oldboy and The Handmaiden has adapted the 1997 Donald E. Westlake novel, The Ax, about a man's violent search for a job. This was previously adapted by Costa-Gavras, but in Park's hands, it turns into some sort of untameable beast.

The amorality is the film's jolting vacuum, as Park goes rogue with his biting satire on how selfish and vengeful the world has turned its pup...