Oldboy (2005) Critic Reviews
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Based upon 14 Critic Reviews- Highest Rated
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It says something when you come out of a film as weird and fantastical as Oldboy and feel that you've experienced something truly authentic. I just don't know what. I can't think of anything to compare it to.Read the full review
Obviously, this sort of taboo-flouting imagery isn't for everyone, but Park's vision is all of a piece.Read the full review
A wild, intensely cinematic ride into two men's burning desire to get even.Read the full review
You will surely leave this movie shocked, shaken and surprisingly moved. And definitely stuck on that poor octopus.Read the full review
Regardless of how you look at Oldboy, it's unlike anything you are likely to have seen before.Read the full review
His film is not for the weak of stomach or heart, but it's a stunner all the same.Read the full review
Oldboy caused a love-it-or-hate-it stir at Cannes last year, and how could it not: It's an onslaught made to cause a sensation. Consider me simultaneously jolted and depressed.Read the full review
Entertaining to watch - notwithstanding the scene in which Dae-su eats a live animal - which is a good thing, because there is not much to think about here, outside of the choreographed mayhem.Read the full review
As always with Park Chanwook, you just hold on and let him rip.Read the full review
Oldboy is a powerful film not because of what it depicts, but because of the depths of the human heart which it strips bare.Read the full review
