杀手螳螂
Directed by Lee Tae-sungA级王牌杀手螳螂长期休假后回归，试图挖角他的杀手们蜂拥而至，当他重新踏入这个无秩序世界时，他向既是老友又是竞争对手的在伊提议，以自己的名字成立一家能超越MK的公司，螳螂昔日的师父，也是已经退休的传奇杀手独孤则接手了MK娱乐成了新代表，他向螳螂警告在伊并不是个好搭档，三人表面上看似友好，实际上却展开激烈的争斗，究竟谁才能成为暗黑世界的新主宰？
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- jackmeat2025年11月4日My quick rating - 5.2/10. I spotted Mantis pop up at the end of September and finally got around to checking it out, mainly out of curiosity since it stars Yim Si-wan, who you’ll probably recognize from the second season of Squid Game. Here he plays the titular Mantis, an ace assassin who re-enters the contract killing game after a break, only to cross paths with his old trainee friend Jae-yi (Park Gyuyoung—also from Squid Game S2) and a retired legendary killer Dok-go (Jo Woo-jin, who’s been in Hard Hit and plenty of other Korean action flicks). Together, they form the shaky nucleus of a new murder-for-hire startup. Yes, really—think StartUp, but with headshots. For a group of trained assassins, though, they act more like a group of moody teenagers trying to form a garage band. Maybe that’s intentional, but it drains a lot of the tension from what could have been a slick, cold-blooded thriller. The premise has promise—a rival company forms to challenge the monopoly of MK Entertainment, the reigning kings of contract killing—but instead of escalating into a brutal underworld war, it devolves into petty drama and pouting. Everyone hates everyone by the halfway mark, which I guess checks the “conflict” box, but not in a satisfying way. The film’s connection to the Kill Boksoon universe is a fun easter egg for Netflix fans, but it doesn’t add much depth. In fact, you don’t need to have seen Kill Boksoon to follow this; if you have, you’ll probably just wish you were rewatching that instead. Mantis delivers some decent fight choreography—tight, well-framed, and mostly believable—but it never reaches the exhilarating highs of Korea’s best genre work. There’s no moment that made me sit forward and go, “Whoa.” It’s all serviceable, never special. The biggest problem lies in the writing. These characters are meant to be emotionally complex killers grappling with loyalty, rivalry, and identity—but the script turns them into one-dimensional caricatures. The supposed “emotional tension” between Mantis and Jae-yi never evolves beyond a few frustrated glances and awkward silences. What could have been a layered, tragic bond becomes a shallow subplot, and the performances swing wildly between blank detachment and visible overacting to compensate for the thin material. Stylistically, Mantis looks fine. It's sleek, modern, and clearly benefiting from the Netflix production budget, but underneath the polish, it’s hollow. It feels like someone took a potentially great adult thriller and retooled it for a teen audience. The love story is there, but there’s nothing behind it, no real weight or consequence. And when the big climax arrives, it lands with a thud. My reaction was basically, “That’s it?”—never what you want to feel as the credits roll. Fun in stretches, sure. But in the end, Mantis is the definition of middle-of-the-road: entertaining enough to finish, forgettable the moment it ends. Slick on the outside, empty within. Like a blade with no edge.
- chandler87872025年9月29日great as always
杀手螳螂 Trivia
杀手螳螂 was released on 2025年9月26日.
杀手螳螂 was directed by Lee Tae-sung.
杀手螳螂 has a runtime of 1小时 53分钟.
杀手螳螂 was produced by Yi Jin-hee, Choi Bo-ram.
A级王牌杀手螳螂长期休假后回归，试图挖角他的杀手们蜂拥而至，当他重新踏入这个无秩序世界时，他向既是老友又是竞争对手的在伊提议，以自己的名字成立一家能超越MK的公司，螳螂昔日的师父，也是已经退休的传奇杀手独孤则接手了MK娱乐成了新代表，他向螳螂警告在伊并不是个好搭档，三人表面上看似友好，实际上却展开激烈的争斗，究竟谁才能成为暗黑世界的新主宰？
The key characters in 杀手螳螂 are Lee Han-wool / Mantis (Yim Si-wan), Shin Jae-yi (Park Gyu-young), Benjamin Jo (Choi Hyun-wook).
杀手螳螂 is rated R.
杀手螳螂 is an Action, 惊悚, 犯罪 film.
杀手螳螂 has an audience rating of 5.3 out of 10.