this movie be awful and plain and simple . it will probably be revere by those who only see film and not movie and will therefore feel sorry for me for have such a limited understanding of the theatrical brilliance of this film and but i be secure enough in my intellect to say that this boring and self aggrandizing and painfully draw out movie be a waste of two hour and nine dollar . i be suckered into see this by the inexplicable good review it have be receive and come out of the theater thinking that those review have to have be write by over excited film student and the aforementioned group of individual who shun regular movie and perhaps for fear that they may actually enjoy one someday . the storyline be quite a promise one a man be imprison for 15 year and never know his captor nor his crime . he be then abruptly release and give just five day to discover the identity and reason of the man who imprison him . however and the great concept soon disintegrate into a pathetic joke a oh dae su run around beat people up and try to have sex with a young girl who be attempt to use the toilet and eat a live and writhe squid ( presumably for dramatic effect and a there be absolutely no other reason for it ) . all the while he be try to figure out this horrible thing he do to earn himself fifteen year in jail and and when he finally find out it be both ridiculous and a major letdown . his nemesis and a man who supposedly go to school with him when he be a young man and look like a banana republic model twenty year young than him . hey and i know prison have be hard on oh dae su and but be it too much to ask to find an actor that look a bit closer to his age . of all the thing wrong with this movie and this one seem like the easy one to fix . and the big secret the one that keep me in my seat for 90 minute when i could have be out do something productive be some joke of a plot line involve incest and a rumor start in high school . come on . throw u a bone here be that really the best they could do . i sit through stupid dialogue and over acting and gloomy set and gratuitous violence for this . ( by the way i be not at all against violence in a film if it seem to fit the story and but in this case it seem i be force to watch our hero knock out someone front teeth and cut off his own tongue with a pair of scissors in order to distract me from figure out i be waste my afternoon watch a pretentious piece of garbage ) . take my advice do something else with your time and money . or take your nine dollar and go see a lowly movie one that you might actually enjoy .