I don't remember many of my babysitters. I don't think I had that many. Maybe my parents didn't go out that much. I know for sure they never went on vacation without my brother and me so when two middle-aged women go on an extended girl's vacay and leave the mercenary boyfriend in charge of the troubled teenage girl (Lee Seo-young), I can't securely say that what follows is utterly preposterous. Maybe mom and dad never left us alone because there really are predatory crime rings ready to abduct bourgeois adolescents then sell them into underground sex rings. I do feel pretty sure that if an attempt had ever been made in that regard on my older brother and me, none of the babysitters we had would've been able to defend us like Bang Ui Gang (Jang Hyuk) of The Killer: A Girl Who Deserves to Die.
Then again, good help has always been hard to find as evidenced throughout Choi Jae-hoon's bloody action thriller. How else to explain the way the thugs keep coming at the film's protector despite his ability to stab, shoot, and karate chop an elevator full of attackers. Does no one think, "Hmm. Rushing this guy with an axe might not be the best strategy." Very few. And most of those guys aren't very smart either. Well, fear makes you dumb. It does me. Those who don't feel fear — like one bleached blond bruiser (Bruce Khan) and one dirty cop (Lee Seung-joon) — won't necessarily fare better than the scaredy cats. Because the only thing that's going to save you in The Killer is a guy like Bang Ui Gang. Great hair. Patrician overbite. No competition.
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