Excellent Movie!

Rating: 9/10 (12 February 2006)

Someone recommended this film to me recently, and I thought I'd give it a go. I didn't really know what to expect, half expected it to be some kung fu woo chop affair. I was pleasantly surprised to find quite a deep movie, from the get go, with the way he describes the passing of time with his TV as his only companion, to the part where he goes out finding the people who locked him up, I knew this was going to be more than just your average bloke gets wronged somehow, gets trained up and then kills the bad guy type movie. In fact the ending is far from your typical Hollywood 'all works out nicely for the good guy' type ending, it's pretty bad for our Oh Daesu (won't get into, watch it to find out) and does leave you something to ponder when you get to the end. I hear they're remaking this, I wish they'd just leave it alone, it doesn't need to be done again in my opinion!
Pretty disturbing, but great 9/10 !