If this is the new face of Asian cinema...

Rating: 7/10 (23 September 2005)

then it is definitely time to get reacquainted with the genre. This is a dark tale about Oh Dae-Su and his quest for vengeance and answers after 15 years of being imprisoned for no reason that he knows. There is some fight action in the film, but none of the wire-aided flying garbage that has come to represent so much of the Asian films of the last decade. The cinematography is very good, there is a lot of very dark humor scattered throughout, and the story is convoluted enough to leave even the wisest cinema buff guessing what the outcome will be. Though the ending left me feeling a bit disappointed, the rest of this tense and somewhat morbid film was very entertaining and I would highly recommend it !