A pulp movie, full of original twists and some defects. See it.

Rating: 7/10 (17 April 2005)

Oldboy is a peculiar movie, very well directed, full of original twists and with a double spectacular finale.
Until half of the movie I found also some amusing dialogs and situations that made me laugh but then the mood becomes very dark and smiling ceases in favor of some gory scenes, and violence prevails. It reminds me Tarantino Pulp fiction and Reserevoir dogs, but in a more realistic and gruesome fashion.
It is an original movie, very crude and harsh with some defects and plot holes such as the main character that comes out of a fight with 15 adversaries with a knife stabbed in his back, the hardly believable 15 years of prisony, the hypnotism explanation, etc A nice experiment that should be seen, definitely.