After watching the martial arts B-movie Revenger, you may ask yourself: Who the hell is Bruce Khan and where has he been all my life? An immediately iconic anti-hero of the silent-but-deadly type, the seriously buff, humorlessly serious Khan singlehandedly turns Lee Seung-won's skimpily plotted action flick set on a prison island that pits a crew of alpha dogs against a group of oddballs into an engrossing affair. He's not alone in keeping you engaged: A female archer (Yoo Jin-seo) with unfailing precision, her bratty daughter (Kim Na-yeon), and a goofy gang leader (Kim In-kwon) with a hook for a hand are all chewing up the tropical scenery with abandon as is the movie's main nemesis (Park Hee-soon), a mummy-wrapped madman who's taste for blood is insatiable.
He hasn't got a shot against Khan, though, since the latter is generally speaking untouchable whenever he's engaged in hand-to-hand combat or swordplay, regardless of how many people are encircling him. Why is it so satisfying to see one person take on a ill-advised crowd? Anyway, I'd say his most delectable adversary wasn't the film's ostensible embodiment of evil but his henchman played by the drop-dead beauty Choi Je-heon. When they strip down for the final confrontation, you may be struggling to choose exactly who you want to win: the beautiful bad boy or the righteous ruffian who sometimes wears blood like lipstick. I picked the high ground but you do you.
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