Not to everyone's tastes, but if you have a strong stomach, OldBoy is sure to impress.
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04/01/06
Oldboy (2005)
82 %
Reviews Counted: 120 Fresh: 98 Rotten:22 Average Rating: 7.3/10
Consensus:
A strange, powerful tale of revenge.
Rated: 18
Runtime: 2 hrs 25 mins
Theatrical Release: 15-10-2004
Synopsis: It would be a sin to reveal too much about this riveting and bizarre thriller from Korean director Chan Wook Park, except to say that it's about a man named Dae-Su (Choi Min-Sik) who is locked in a hotel room for 15 years without knowing his captor's motives. When he is finally released, Dae Su... [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Choi Min-Sik, Bo-Kyeong Kim, Yoo Ji-tae
Reviews
Top CriticQuite an achievement then, and well worthy of its Cannes prize.
01/26/06
Top Critic
A dark and thrillingly horrible adventure into the realms of the unthinkable.
05/13/05
Top Critic
Kinetic and energetic, funny and more than a little insane, the film ingeniously gets us into the mind of its hero.
11/08/04
Full of insanely grand passions, bloodthirsty violence and jet black comedy, it's a sadistic masterpiece that confirms Korea's current status as producer of some of the world's most exciting cinema.
10/06/04
Top Critic
As played by Choi Min-shik, Dae-su attains tragic stature. He's like a shaggy King Lear undone by his own foolishness.
04/19/07
Definitivamente no para todos los gustos, esta violenta y asombrosa película coreana promete convertirse en una de las verdaderas sorpresas del año.
05/23/06
Park has a strong visual style and a near-surrealistic noir touch, but unraveling the mystery scarcely repays sitting through his relentless rounds of gut-wrenching violence.
05/12/06
Este no es un filme para todo el mundo. Lo cual no es necesariamente algo malo.
05/05/06
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01/17/06
Top Critic
Its tentacles are still wriggling in my memory, as if I just ate something that should never have been served in the first place.
10/31/05
That Park has talent in the technical department is a given; that he's a good filmmaker is debatable.
10/14/05
It's hard to make an argument for Oldboy based on anything other than pure cinematics, but when the style speaks this loudly, it's an argument worth making.
09/26/05
This is absolutely not a film for all tastes, but it's a masterpiece of pitiless power whose audacious, ambiguous climax strikes a note of insane romanticism as haunting as it is perverse.
09/24/05
Three couples were talking out loud as the film started. But before I could give them the traditional New York 'Shut the #%*& Up,' the movie shut them the #%*& up for me.
08/07/05
The buzz was right: Oldboy confirms Park as one of the best filmmakers working today.
07/16/05
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