let me get this out of the way before i trash this film represent i love park chan wook work a a director . while i disagree with the mass say he be the best director work in our time and i can not deny that he understand how to use a camera very effectively . i really liked one of his other film and sympathy for mr. vengeance . also and min sik choi acting be the only thing that allow me to take this film seriously . . . for 1/5 of the runtime and that be . now the bad represent the plot be simply the old cliché use in cinema or literature . i will never understand how critic can trash a hollywood blockbuster for be cliché and then hail movie like oldboy which be just a unoriginal and clichéd if not even more so . regardless and oldboy be flat out one of the most generic and unoriginal movie ever conceive . spoiler man be hold captive and man seek revenge and man find out he have sex with a family member and man life be over . end spoiler simply put and this plot line have be use in everything from greek play to modern melodramatic soap opera and countless movie or book in between . it be so melodramatic and unoriginal when the major reveal happens and i laugh out loud . do that mean i be a desensitized freak without emotion a some review of this film say about people like me . no . what it mean overdone plot make people laugh . the scary movie franchise prove that and and oldboy prove it as well . why can not people think of something that be truly disturbing instead of just spew out tried clichés mask with fancy camera work and classical music . that bring up the issue of blood or gore . simply put and it isn not there . the director be too timid to even point the camera at the screen when something gory happens and a if be watch a child movie or something . maybe we be . anyway and i have hear oldboy call the most brutal movie of all time and the most disturbing movie ever but when i watch it i fail to see anything even remotely gory or disturb . all the gore be off screen and and even then the violence level be nothing you haven not see in pg 13 movie like the dark knight or casino royale before . why this even get an r rating confuses me and much less the most brutal movie of all time . seriously and i have see movie that just make oldboy look cute on every level when it come to violence or gore . the other huge glaring and cheesy flaw be the main villain . the majority of his screen time he show his bare butt off for the audience in comedic american pie style and but i be suppose to think he oh so evil . when he wear clothes and his hair be slick back like a bad asian mix of the cheesy james bond villain mixed with something out of austin power . he talk like a brain dead teenager recover from an acid overdose and and his dialogue be so bad it have me laugh yet again . seriously and oldboy have me laugh more than any comedy this year . . . in the end and oldboy be for those of you who sip fine wine and have no sense of humor and and talk about how boring your life be at dinner party . it for those people who be so stuck up in their own ego they forget how unoriginal they be and and consequently forget how unoriginal and bore the film ( never movie ) they enjoy be . to those people all i can say be this represent i like film and also like movie . i like thoughtful drama that actually say something about the human condition and and i also like pointless action movie that thrill me into a coma . but the thing be and for me to like both film and movie and they have to be original . they have to be something i haven not see so many time i lose count of the number of time the plot have be use . when something isn not original and it expendable . if it do exactly what everyone else do and it forgettable and boring . before you give oldboy yet another perfect rating because it touch you and maybe you should think about something represent wouldn not a movie equally a touching and but at the same time original make you think more . i just wish someone other than me would understand this . overall represent oldboy be forgettable and cheesy . negative .