Better than Kill Bill

Rating: 9/10 (1 November 2004)

Both speaking about the same general theme, as to say blind vengeance, Old Boy and Kill Bill are quite similar on paper.
But if QT has clearly chosen an esthetical and graphical approach, I think that Chang Wook Park has an even better story to propose and his characters are more presents and alive.
Old Boy has a really great story and deserves a second vision on cinema, since the first time the spectator is too deeply involved in the story. A second vision really enables a take a distance from the "what is said", in order to understand the "how it's made", which, on the present case, is absolutely fascinating. Various scenes have already entered in the cinema history, but beyond this, it is the general atmosphere that gives the movie his strength and beauty.
A masterpiece.