I nearly stopped watching this after the first seven minutes, which is a relentless, close to first person-view knife fight/slaughter as our heroine first shoots, then slices and stabs her way through a henchman-filled series of corridors and rooms - spectacular, but also wearying. But I persevered and so I can report that The Villainess is a fairly complicated, backstory-heavy, violent film with some surprising moments of lightness and a few striking images. Oh and it's South Korean, from which plenty of this kind of well-made genre seems to come.
