Stunning like a Clawhammer to the Head

Rating: 7/10 (7 October 2006)

"OldBoy" is a pretty bizarre film, a mixture of themes from "Oedipus Rex", "The Manchurian Candidate" and "The Count of Monte Cristo". If it weren't for the uniformly above-average performances from the cast, I would have switched off after 25 minutes.
What makes this film worth seeing are the human stories intermingled with the scenes of violence. "OldBoy" is morally ambivalent and not an easy film to watch in places but it made me empathise with the main characters, even the villain.
Even a day after seeing it, I'm still trying to work out if "OldBoy" had a happy ending or not. It gets a high score from me because it it is still making me think about it.