'No Other Choice' Review: Park Chan-wook's Black Comedy Is Really Black and Really Comic

The phrase "no other choice" is repeated many times by many people in many contexts in the film of the same name, so we might as well add another use of the phrase right now: South Korean director Park Chan-wook has no other choice but to make big, bold movies that always flirt with going over the edge, and sometimes do a lot more than flirt. His new film is a case in point. Based on an early 1970s novel by Donald E. Westlake, "The Ax," it's a black comedy about an employee in a paper manufacturing plant who is let go by the company's new American owners ("no other choice," one . . .