Everything is wrong with [Spike] Lee's version of Park Chan-wook's notorious, super-violent super-action-thriller. For one thing, it's far from super. Not the quality, per se (although, for Lee, that's off, too), but the energy.
Oldboy
Ask not why you were imprisoned. Ask why you were set free.
2013 · 1h 44m · R
Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
Spike Lee
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Oldboy
Overview
A man has only three and a half days and limited resources to discover why he was imprisoned in a nondescript room for 20 years without any explanation.
Director and cast
- Spike Lee Director
- Josh Brolin as Joe Doucett
- Elizabeth Olsen as Marie Sebastian
- Sharlto Copley as Adrian Pryce
- Samuel L. Jackson as Chaney
- Michael Imperioli as Chucky
- Pom Klementieff as Haeng-Bok
- James Ransone as Dr. Tom Melby
- Max Casella as James Prestley
- Linda Emond as Edwina Burke
- Elvis Nolasco as Cortez
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Why would we want to watch a chronicle of Joe's agonies, and the agonies he gets to inflict on others? Passing it up would be the best revenge.
Hollywood's wildest cinematic freakout since "Shutter Island" is a remake of-and an improvement on-the Korean original, from 2003.
A vivid yet academic remake, this Oldboy is shorter, leaner and lesser.
Sometimes I don't understand the Hollywood mindset. Who thought remaking Park Chan-wook's 2003 cult classic, Oldboy, was a good idea?
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