I don't know about you but if I were looking to hook up with someone for a one-night-stand and the moment I got to this stranger's place, an unseen voice started telling me where to go over a speaker system in moodily lit halls with video cameras overhead, I'd turn around and leave. I've never been that horny! Yet Jung Do-jon (Ji Seung-hyeon) doesn't heed such warnings. Missing his shallow wife and tween child (who are abroad longterm), he's tired of being the celibate square at the office so he's going to choose from a pretty strange menu at a pretty strange saloon that serves sex instead of shots. Unfortunately, the secret desire this club's drugged wine is going to expose is Jung's misogyny. Which leads to murder.
What follows is the cover-up that backfires (a.k.a. the movie). So is anyone really cheering on this killer, except maybe the enthusiastic readers of his bestselling novel? (He pens books on the side.) Don't we all want to see him go down? Or does writer-director Lim Jin-seung assume our sympathies are going to be with the lead actor simply because... he's hot? Is he suddenly noble because he's worried about the well-being of his wife and daughter? Lucky for him, he studies martial arts (on the side) so he's ready to take on his newfound enemies when they start coming out of the walls. He's well-trained to murder again and again. So what's the message here? The Puzzle is one weird-ass puzzle. And no amount of false endings — and this movie has a few — is going to change that.
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