A Must See For All Adults

Rating: 9/10 (21 April 2009)

Oldboy is based off a manga (like many pulp Asian movies such as Ichi The Killer). However, not confuse you with the nature of most Asian pulp movies, this one was done with all seriousness and a great cast as well as director.
If ever, you are searching for a movie that has one of those endings that make you sit up in your seat, or race to be the first one in the living room to shout the 'concluding answer', then this movie is for you.
The movie is pretty long for you pretty much being extremely confused (two hours), however, every little thing in the movie is pretty much necessary, if not to define Daesu (Oldboy), but to truly hit you in the end.
Oldboy takes the human aspect of several details and puts you on a near week odyssey of a man trying to commit to vengeance and a quest to find the truth behind 'why' and 'who'. The movie was suggested to me by one of my friends when I asked for a movie title that would leave me struck and speechless in the end. This movie was suggested and I regret buying it and waiting a week to watch it, as it was ultimately the best foreign film I have seen.