Kill Boksoon ending explained: Untangling Netflix's twisty action ...

31 Mar 2023

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Kill Boksoon ending spoilers follow.

If you're in need of another action fix after John Wick: Chapter 4, Netflix's new movie Kill Boksoon is just what you need.

Set in a John Wick-esque world where assassins work for companies and there are rules to abide by, the movie follows elite assassin Gil Boksoon as she nears the end of her contract with leading killing agency MK Ent.

But while killing is easy for Boksoon, raising her teenage daughter Jae-young is nowhere near as simple. She plans to retire to mend her relationship with her daughter, although you won't be surprised to know that her final assignment doesn't quite go to plan.

If the twisty action-thriller made you feel as lost as Boksoon does as a parent, we're here to help by diving into Kill Boksoon's ending to unravel who double-crossed who, why they did it and whether Boksoon managed to make it out unscathed.

Major spoilers are ahead, so don't read on unless you've seen the movie.

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Kill Boksoon ending explained

In the world of Kill Boksoon, there are three rules that every killer agency must follow: "You must not kill minors; you will only take on shows [assassinations] sanctioned by your company; you must always attempt shows sanctioned by your company."

Boksoon is one of only two grade-A-ranked assassins at MK Ent, alongside Cha Min-kyu – MK's chairman – who she's known ever since he staged the suicide of her father. In fact, Boksoon was even the one to kick the chair out from under her father's feet.

For her final assignment, Boksoon takes on a grade-A assassination to stage the suicide of a student who, crucially, isn't a minor. However, when she's on the 'show' with MK "intern" Kim Young-ji, Boksoon realises the target is the son of Senator Oh Jeong-sik.

The senator is the new candidate for prime minister and he's facing a scandal after being accused of getting his son fraudulently admitted to college. To spare his blushes, he paid MK to kill his son, but given her own fraught relationship with her daughter, Boksoon chooses not to go through with it.

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It means that Boksoon has broken the rules (rule three, to be precise), but she tells Chairman Cha that if he accepts that she just failed and confirms the senator's son won't be killed by somebody else, she'll accept a new contract.

Chairman Cha's sister Cha Min-hee – MK's director – isn't happy about this and Boksoon's influence on her older brother. She blackmails MK assassin Han Hee-sung (who had been carrying out unsanctioned 'shows') into carrying out the assassination of the senator's son, in return for a promotion to grade A.

Aware of the threat Boksoon poses, Director Cha tells Hee-sung to kill Boksoon and, since they're at the local hangout for assassins, she offers any other assassin the chance to work at MK if they kill Boksoon instead.

Boksoon, with the help of Young-ji, manages to kill all of the fellow assassins, including Hee-sung. Unfortunately for Boksoon, it means that the other companies will be coming after her when they learn she killed their assassins.

Chairman Cha has a plan though to frame Hee-sung for it all, and he kills Young-ji to remove any witnesses. He also makes it clear to all the other companies that since MK is the leading agency, he can basically set any rules and kills another company's chairman to prove he's untouchable.

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He didn't count on Boksoon discovering that he killed Young-ji, thanks to Director Cha's gloating. Boksoon kills Director Cha and sends a "bloody knife" (well, technically, a bloody pen) message to Chairman Cha which, in the world of the movie, is essentially its version of throwing down the gauntlet.

Boksoon and Chairman Cha have a showdown in his office where Boksoon realises that no matter the scenario she plays out, she ends up dead. (It's basically her superpower to guess her opponent's moves, which is why she's been so good as an assassin.)

Instead of confronting Chairman Cha directly, she distracts him by taunting that she knows his weakness is her. He's distracted enough that Boksoon is able to land a fatal blow, but Chairman Cha has the final laugh as he tells her that her daughter has watched the whole thing as she was sent an iPad with a livestream of the office.

Boksoon's daughter Jae-young – who might also be Chairman Cha's daughter as the movie hints at it, without ever confirming it – had no idea of her mother's profession. When Boksoon returns home, Jae-young seems pretty chill about everything so we're left to wonder if she actually watched the livestream.

The movie does show Jae-young watching the livestream, but since we also see Boksoon's visions of failed moves, it could be Boksoon imagining her daughter watching it. Or Jae-young just realises that maybe she shouldn't mess with her mother, the cold-blooded ruthless killer.

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Either way, the mid-credit scene sees Jae-young looking pretty relaxed, having returned to the school where she was expelled to say goodbye to the girl she was seeing.

We also hear that the newly-elected prime minister was found dead in his car, a suspected suicide as a result of the trauma of his son's death. It could well have been Boksoon's doing or just MK clearing up loose ends.

So, all's well that ends well, we guess?

Kill Boksoon is available to watch now on Netflix.

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