Truly amazing

Rating: 10/10 (5 August 2006)

OLDBOY is the second installment in Park Chan-wook's 'Vengeance' trilogy.
Oh Dae Su (Choi Min-sik) is a normal guy who lives a normal life with a wife and kid. One night when he gets caught drunk and disorderly, he's kidnapped and imprisoned in a room and is only able to communicate with the outside world by watching the TV that's in his room. One year passes by and still trapped in his room he turns on the TV and watches the news and finds out that his wife has been murdered, making Oh's rage grow and grow. Fourteen years later, he's released and starts to seek for revenge to find the person who stole Oh's fifteen years and murdered his wife. When he's released, he is given a mobile phone, clean clothes and money and meets an attractive young female named Mido (Kang Hye-jeong) who gets caught in Oh's quest for vengeance. But there is one rule in Oh's quest for revenge; the rule is he is only given five days to find his captor and his wife's murderer or else Mido will die.
OLDBOY is an absolute classic tale of the obsession for vengeance and Park Chan-wook has done an incredible job, but it's unfortunate that he didn't get the Palme d'Or at Cannes but at least he got the Grand Prix Prize. I'd highly recommend this movie to those who aren't squeamish, but if you are squeamish, look away because the violence is nasty and quite realistic.