Oldboy is rather a good Korean movie. Not for the squeamish, due to graphic Reservoir-Dogs-esque facial-features trauma. Not for the prudish or moralising, due to other graphic things. Not for people who don't like subtitles or weirdness.
For everyone else, it's lots of fun. There's an insane plot! There's hammer-fights! There's eating live squid that grabs your nose with tentacles after you've bitten its head off! There's fifteen years locked up without explanation! There's incest, twice! There's suicide, three times! There's more hammer-fights!
Apparently it's essentially a retelling of the Count of Monte Cristo, but with, er, more hammers, suicide, incest and squid. And subtitles. Now apparently being remade in America, so if you don't like subtitles you can watch a shit version in three years' time instead! Shit version guaranteed fewer hammers and squid! 90% chance of inferior plot! 95% chance of reduced incest and suicide! 98% chance of worse acting and direction! But hey, no subtitles, so it must be worth waiting for.
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