That's the best way to describe the Korean movie Old Boy. I just got back from watching it @ Camera 7 in the Pruneyard....

A family man who is grabbed off the street and imprisoned in a room by unseen captors. Fifteen years later he is released, and sets out to discover the reason behind his incarceration and to take revenge on his mysterious enemies.

Check it out

 

Ive seen it too - I didn't like the ending.

 

well if it's a Korean movie... everyone dies at the end... especially whoever is/are the protagonist(s)...

 

Just saw it last night. The "reason" why is crazy cool. Folks in the theater where pretty much like oooooh ****...hahaa. Very interesting. That chick who plays Mida is easy on the eyes too. =0)

-ryan

 

It's quite disturbing movie, like 'Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance' by the same director.

 

where is pruneyard?

 

http://www.cameracinemas.com/cameras.html#camera7

 

i havent gotten to see this one, but maybe ill check it out since you guys seem to like it...

usually i just watch kdramas here n there

 

Korean flicks rock! Choi Min Shik is a great actor and I'll have to go see this one too

 

anyone ever see Shiri? your thoughts on that movie?

 

i saw shiri a long time ago... as i recall it wasnt interesting enough to hold my attention, maybe because i was with my gf at the time while watching it =p...

i think i might of tried watching it again after but it was kind of boring *shrug*

 

Oldboy is the second movie in the "revenge" trilogy by the director. The movies are:

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
Old Boy
Sympathy for Mrs. Vengeance

All pretty brutal.

 

Kind of a routine, formulaic spy action/thriller. The was pretty good, but not anything crap-yer-pants spectacular. I think the most interesting thing for me about that movie was the North-South Korean relations storyline (I'm big on Asian politics and I'm having a field day with Sino-Japanese relations now )