This South Korean film, a revenge fantasy is really something to see if not experience. Extremely well directed by Park Chan-wook, the film has a lot of violence and sadism running through out with an interesting if rather sick story wrapping it all up.
A man is imprisoned in a room for 15 years with only a TV set to keep him company, he doesn't know why and at the end of his imprisonment he's released and only has five days to solve the mystery.
Oldboy has a considerable reputation among cultists and film buffs and it's probably well deserved. Park Chan-wook gets a lot of credit for making what is really a sick joke of a film as interesting as it is. Oldboy has a lot of torture throughout the film, but for the most part it's filmed in such a way that it's left to the imagination although you really wouldn't know it.
The South Korean's seem to have a way with this kind of exaggerated violence and what I would call main stream "torture porn." They know how to make this stuff compelling. Half of the time you are marveling at the film making skill while trying to decide if you should just shut the DVD off and have a stiff drink to forget the whole thing.
Oldboy is the middle part of some sort of revenge trilogy. You have to wonder what the first and third films must be like.
120 minutes.
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