The best "revenge" movie ever made

Rating: 10/10 (18 February 2004)

This movie is totally awesome!!! That was the feeling I was left with after watching this movie, and I bet that most of people who've watched this movie must have felt the same. The script was so well written, with absolutely brutal tension throughout the movie, plus superb acting make this movie simply spectacular.
The movie begins with an ordinary guy, married with one girl, going sort of crazy in a police station, after night of heavy drinking. After getting out, he makes a phone call to his daughter to tell her that he'll be home soon with her birthday present, then his whole life turns upside down.
He becomes kidnapped by unknown men, held in a solitary room in some building for 15 years, then one day, he was suddenly let out without any kind of explanation. While in captivity, he finds out that his wife's been murdered, and he has became the prime suspect.
After he's been let go, he falls in love with a young woman, and together they solve the mystery behind his capture. When he finally confronts the man that held him for 15 years, he promises him that if he finds out why he was held in 5 days, he'll die for him.
From this point on, the focus of movie shifts from why he was held for exactly 15 years to why he was let go after 15 years. And when the truth becomes finally unveiled, it's so painful and shocking that it makes him wish that he was never let out.
This movie is revenge movie at its best. It will definitely blow away any American revenge or mystery movie you've ever seen, and acting of Choi will leave you breathless, especially the final confrontation between the two men. No one would've thought that director Park would be able to top his previous masterful revenge movie "Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance," but this movie is even much better, which in itself is unbelievable.
This movie will make you gasping for air. And expect unexpected.