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Oldboy Review
Lee is known for his bold films, but his remake of Chan-wook Park's genuinely freaky Oldeuboi lacks the former's visceral punch. Two scenes - an extended tracking shot of a fight scene involving a hammer and Joe crawling out of a Louis Vuitton trunk in a field while a woman holding a yellow umbrella stands in the background - are surreal. What's oddest is that at the end of 20 years, Joe looks like he hasn't even aged 20 days and some of the dialogues are shockingly limp. The film has graphic violence and perversion, but there is no take-away. It leaves you trying to nail down what the point to this remake really was.Visit Site for more
Ratings:0.5/5 Review By: Paloma Sharma Site:Rediff
Watching Oldboy feels like you’re watching a history lesson on the projector in your seventh grade class. While the visuals may be dark and slick, there is really nothing about the film that feels even a tiny bit humane. I’m going with half a star for Spike Lee’s Oldboy and that’s only because of Sean Bobbitt (Shame, Byzantium) and his dreamily morbid cinematography. Oldboy is not for the weak-hearted.Or film lovers. Or just people, in general.Visit Site for more
Ratings:1.5/5 Review By: Mihir Fadnavis Site:Mid Day
Everything about the film is half-assed, from the writing to the direction to the acting by Josh Brolin. The villain in the original was a classy badass with a terrifying motive to torture the hero, in the remake he’s given a scar on his torso to compensate for his cheesy standard issue back story. The whole thing really feels like an Asylum remake of Oldboy with an aftertaste of the live octopus that Oh Dae Su swallows in the original. - See more at: http://mihirfadnavis.blogspot.in/#sthash.Lq76lGGY.dpufVisit Site for more
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