Oldboy is an exquisitely/excruciatingly imaginative revenge fantasy/nightmare...

It is surefootedly cinematic in much the same way that "Cine" City is...

It is an ultra-dark portrayal of the worst aspects of what it means to be human...

It is the Korean Memento with all the cultural pleasures/barriers that might suggest to you...

It's really much better freakin' well done than you ever might hope for an artsy foreign vengeance flick...

5 out of 5.

(Note: This movie would make the ultimate Heaven & Hell double bill with the outstanding 1998 Japanese movie After Life by director Hirokazu Koreeda -- Warning - I highly recommend that you watch Oldboy first!)

I do like that we're getting to see more and more movies from Korea.

This movie was okay. Is Chan-wook Park trying to be like Takashi Mîke? You got weirdness, revenge, violence, incest.... If Park put in some S&M and an obsession with bodily functions, he would really be like Mîke.

What's with those over-head crane shots? Blah.

Park's short film in the "Three... Extremes" series was my least favourite.