apongilyang
Incredible! I had a doubt before watching this movie, however after watching it everything became crystal clear why this movie is so so good. It grabs your attention from the beginning till the end, and the best thing about this movie is, it is really natural and the way the actings have been truly terrific which grabs you in it and make you feel like you are a part of this movie, so detailed. Literally a masterminded kind of story. This movie will leave you breathless till the end, that is how incredible this movie is. What a direction, what a story, what a cinematography and what an acting by every casts. If you don't like this movie then you no longer should be watching any kind of movie. Perfectly executed, tremendous job done.
bondblackberry
I am a fan of thriller movies, especially the South Korean ones. Of the various movies, this is the worst of the lot. There is no thriller in the first place and the movie is plain and simple. A guy kidnaps a child for money with assistance from his girlfriend. He does for a good cause and everything goes according to plan, but a sudden twist flips everything upside down with the child accidentally kills herself. The father of the victim hunts for the kidnapper, and the pursuit was boring to say the least. There are many thriller/crime movies, but this movie is nothing but a Quentin Tarantino drama. I don't recommend this movie to anyone for a gripping thriller movie.
harihar90
While stylishly shot and crafted (especially in its handling of the twin narrative threads) the movie is ultimately a failed exercise in exploring the nature of revenge as the characters felt sterile. When the plot and themes are as clear and straight forward as they are here, the only reason to take as long as this film does to get to its point could be to establish the audience empathy for the characters. But by cutting away from the characters' faces during the few moments when they actually betray any emotion and by relentless jumps in time that made the film feel like a bunch of vignettes, the film made me feel more and more alienated from them. And without any interest in the characters, the long sequence with (needlessly) large amounts of splattery stuff on scene ended up feeling tedious rather than shocking.
Johanna Eugenie
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance is fine piece of Korean cinema, it is a prime example of how great of a director Park Chan-Wook is. It features many great Korean actors such as Song Kang-Ho and Shin Ha-Kyun, who have appeared a lot through-out many great film by Park, amongst other great films.The atmosphere the character create, the acting, scenery and the dialogue create a very down-to-earth feeling. It shows several sides of people, it shows our happiness, our sorrows, hatred, depression, the feeling of loss and anger. The film was very good at making me sympathize with all the character, even though Ryu was in fact responsible for a death through a kidnapping, I only realized that I should have sympathized more with the character Park. However, everyone suffered, everyone lost what they had, everyone lost someone they loved, and everyone eventually dies in the end. That is what I love about this film the most - everyone feel pleasure at some point, but we all suffer and die. What I particularly "like" is how it managed to show how horrible it can be to be deaf-dumb, when he was eating noodles and she was dying, when he was burying his sister as the girl was drowning - these were all great at showing just how hard it can be. - and best of all, his crying when his sister commits suicide - it is the most genuine cry you can have, he can not hear it, so he weeps as genuinely as one can.There's a lot of cozy stuff too that make me happy, how nicely they fit together, their conversations. This film is a master piece.
AD
