Oldboy on C4 tonight. (Not to everyone's taste.)

</p><h3 class="summary">Oldboy</h3>

</p><p class="dateTime"><span class="dtstart">Tuesday 21 October
11:35pm - </span><span class="dtend">2:00am </span>
<span class="location">Film4</span></p><div id="review">

Director Park Chan-wook demonstrated that his critically acclaimed Sympathy for Mr Vengeance was no flash in the pan when he received the Grand Prix at 2004's Cannes film festival for this mind-bending action thriller. Choi Min-sik plays the happily married father who is kidnapped and incarcerated for no apparent reason. He's then horrified to discover that his wife has been murdered with himself as the principal suspect. Fifteen years of unexplained Kafka-esque detention follow. Suddenly, he wakes up to find himself free and gets down to the serious business of vengeance by leaving a trail of blood and mayhem that would make Quentin Tarantino proud. Some viewers will be repulsed by scenes of self-mutilation and the most painful visit to the dentist since Dustin Hoffman and Laurence Olivier's t&ecirc;te-&agrave;-t&ecirc;te in Marathon Man. However, Oldboy has more to offer than action and violence - it's an imaginative tale of guilt and revenge, with a shocking twist in the tale. </p></div>

 

RE: Oldboy on C4 tonight. (Not to everyone's tatse.)

needs an edit mate (tatse)

 

I'll endorse that

Very good film.