Oldboy

Never seen the original , this movie was awesome. Period.

This movie was really something. This type of revenge should teach a lot of bullies in schools a valuable lesson. I have to say, I really enjoyed this one, I didn't expect that ending at all.

Good lord, people are such haters. You'd think by a lot of the reviews here this movie wasn't good. In fact, it's a great movie. It's just like when book nerds complain the movie isn't better than the book, yeah but what's your real point? One's a movie, one's a book. In this case it's a remake of a movie that was Korean. I haven't seen the original, and I don't care to because it's just my preference that I like watching movies where I'm not reading subtitles the whole time, so I'm glad I got to see this story and this movie and couldn't give a flying fuck about the original or if it was or wasn't better than it.

It was actually 20 years. Great movie!

I will start my review by saying that I never saw the original South Korean Oldboy film. My intention was seeing the original before seeing this american remake or even thinking if I wanted to see the remake or not because all of the negative comments about this new one. The thing is, I won tickets for the premiere and as a huge addict in films I couldn't refuse it. Many people told me not to see this despite not having seen the original but man, it's stronger than me!

The story of this film JEEZ! What an amazing story! But I have to admit that one of the things that I am certain (and from hearing the reactions of some people after the film finished) is that for more amazing that this story can be, unfortunately this film make it a little predictable. At the middle of the film I was already suspecting how it would end and in the original film (as you all say) the perfect pacing and the perfect atmosphere will keep you completely blank about what will happen until the very last minute.

Josh Brolin wasn't entirely bad for the role, he was intense and emotional but in my point of view he hadn't all of the intensity required for that role and he hadn't all of the emotion required for made me feel totally heartbroken for that poor father that learned a life lesson in the worst possible way.
Elizabeth Olsen wasn't bad, she is a promissing actress and Shalrto Copley is a good villian! He surprised me as a villian earlier this year on Elysium and he surprised me again. I think he has all of the creepiness required of this kind of characters.

Overall, I can't say that it was a horrible film because for me, mostly because of the shocking story, it was a surprise and I enjoyed. Although, some things didn't worked well for me.
After all I think it was better for me not watch the original film before because I had nothing to compare. Now I am still very curious to see the original Oldboy and take my conclusions.
Many of you might criticize my rate about it but I can't lie. It entertained me and I was totally stunned by the story.

A good movie, Elizabeth Olsen made it even better :)

I agree with most of the coments here. Not bad. But if you have seen the original. Then don't expect to be satisfied. I am not one for corean movies but the original of this movie is a masterpiece.

I wanted to dislike this movie and simply write it off as a unneccesary remake, but the truth is I can't. Although I still think the Korean original is way better, this isn't as bad as I initially thought it was going to be.