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Tazza: One Eyed Jack
Movie

Tazza: One Eyed Jack

2019 • Unknown

Woke Score
1.2
out of 10

Plot

A young poker player at the top of his game joins a team led by the legendary poker player One-Eyed Jack. While successfully working on a plan to win a huge jackpot, a single mistake puts the entire team in a life-or-death situation.

Overall Series Review

The movie is a South Korean crime thriller centered on the high-stakes world of professional gambling, focusing on a young prodigy who joins an elite con team. The narrative is driven purely by the mechanics of the con, the characters' skills, and classic themes of betrayal, debt, and revenge. Its cultural context is entirely South Korean, drawing on a local comic book tradition about 'tazza' (master gamblers). The plot's energy comes from elaborate schemes and character-specific talents, such as card-handling and infiltration. Female characters operate within established crime-film archetypes, such as the seductress and the femme fatale, whose motivations are tied to money and power within the underworld rather than modern feminist political messaging. The central conflict is a personal, generational pursuit of justice and mastery in the gambling world, requiring character merit and skill to succeed.

Categorical Breakdown

Identity Politics1/10

The movie is a South Korean production with an entirely Korean cast, and the narrative conflict is centered on personal skill and criminal rivalry in the gambling underworld. The story judges characters by their merit as gamblers and con artists, not by race or an intersectional hierarchy. Universal meritocracy is the primary theme within the criminal context of the plot.

Oikophobia1/10

The film focuses on a crime subculture within modern South Korea. It is a genre piece about con artists and the wealthy they target, which does not contain hostility toward South Korean heritage or institutions. The plot is internal to the nation and does not suggest the home culture is fundamentally corrupt or that other cultures are spiritually superior.

Feminism2/10

Female characters like Young-mi and Madonna are defined by traditional crime-thriller archetypes—the seductress and the femme fatale. Their primary function in the plot is tied to infiltration, distraction, and ultimate betrayal. The women are not Mary Sues and their roles do not include anti-natalism or career-as-only-fulfillment messaging; they are simply complementary, gendered roles within a criminal enterprise.

LGBTQ+1/10

The narrative centers on a core team of male and female characters involved in high-stakes gambling and heterosexual attraction/relationships are present but secondary to the con. The film contains no evidence of centering alternative sexualities, deconstructing the nuclear family, or lecturing on gender theory. The structure is normative and sexuality is a private, plot-device element.

Anti-Theism1/10

The core plot is a crime/gambling thriller focused on money, skills, and revenge. The narrative contains no overt or implied hostility toward religion. Morality is transcendent only in the sense of a gambler's code of honor versus betrayal, which functions outside a spiritual or theological framework. The concept of objective truth is acknowledged through the reality of consequences for breaking the code.