It has been hyped up to something that it hardly can deliver...

Rating: 5/10 (29 August 2018)

I remember seeing t his movie back in the day when it was first released, and I remember the movie as being quite good and entertaining. So when I got the chance to sit down and watch it again in 2018, I did so.
Either my taste in movies have changed dramatically over the past 15 years or my memory of the movie have been somewhat deluded. Why? Because this movie was not all that spectacular as I remembered it, nor as the high rating would otherwise indicate.
The movie is unfathomably long, dragging on to the point where it feels redundant. Especially because there isn't a whole lot actually happening in the 2 hours that the movie run for. So it was somewhat of an ordeal to sit through it and not have my attention wander elsewhere.
It was solely the performance of Min-sik Choi that made me stick with the movie to the very end, this second time around. He was phenomenal in the role and was really so well cast for that particular role. But just a shame that he had so very little to work with.
The storyline was mundane and rather stumbling. It took forever to get from A to B, because a whole lot of nothing had to be told and shown on screen in the process of getting there. Which made it feel very prolonged and strained in a way.
I will not be returning to watch "Oldboy" (aka "Oldeuboi") a third time, that much is for certain.