"A cryptic, considered thriller, the office is a Korean film that takes its time to paint a cryptic mystery we try to work out.
The plot: A man gets home from work, murders him family with a hammer before returning to work. He never leaves. The police can't find him, his co-workers have nothing bad to say, it's a mystery.
But behind the happy face of the company there is sinister considerations. Interns that may have seen more from him than they thought, dark implications that hint that the pressure of work may have lead to a snapping of character.
It's all told through a slow drip of information and is painfully tense at times, even more so with flashbacks and scenes we can never be sure are happening or not.
Indeed, it becomes almost a surreal nightmare set in a banal office and that is where this succeeds. Just who is killing and why?
The reason are not clear, even to the end, and it leaves room for thought just like the best of films do"
- 7/10
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