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Movie review: Female-centric action-thriller The Villainess' is deliriously violent, with carnage everywhere

"The Villainess," an insanely over-cranked action-thriller from the South Korean director Jung Byung-gil, begins with the sort of sequence that seems designed to clear most of the theater, until only those with cast-iron stomachs remain.

With little fanfare and even less context, the film thrusts us into the shoes of a deadly assassin named Sook-hee (Kim Ok-vin) as she shoots and slashes her way through what seems to be an entire building's worth of armed-to-the-teeth thugs, a brutal revenge mission that sends blood gushing and

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