i be sorry to rain on everybody parade . just a little background about me represent i like and know a lot about asian cinema and especially japanese and chinese and indian . admittedly i be a novice when it come to south korean cinema but and if this be the best of the best and sorry . i just want you to know that i be not at all narrow mind when it come to appreciate foreign movie and i do not fit the stereotype of the dumb american . . . well and not perfectly . i can not believe the high praise this piece of nothing be bestow upon . this be a disgusting and ludicrous movie . hammy act everything be badly do and overdone and like beg for the uneducated viewer attention . horrible camera work and with an insistence on meaningless close ups derive from the mtv aesthetic . the plot be more full of hole than a gigantic piece of swiss cheese . nobody expect a thriller to be 100 % realistic and and for the sake of entertainment i would be happy to close my eye to small unfitting detail . but and excuse me and what happen here that can stand even summary scrutiny . this story of an unbelievably intricate and contrite act of revenge be bad than the bad tabloid story one can read in a line at the supermarket . ( don not want to spoil your enjoyment and if that the word and so would not go into detail of the plot . ) the fighting scene be violent and unbelievable and downright stupid ( the main hero take on dozen and dozen of opponent in the same time and after he only train while imprison and punch a wall . ) the truly outstanding feature of this movie be two represent the lurid and incestuous sex ( brother on sister and father on daughter and well and we have evolve since oedipus and do not we . ) and the graphic violence . the cut off body part hand and teeth and tongue together with industrial quantity of spilled blood ( how many ten of thousand of tomato have to die for this movie to be make . ) have no esthetical function or motivation whatsoever . a feast for the s and m incline and admittedly and but and even for those and a feast of no merit nor subtlety . heaven and even mel gibson recent and much discuss work on an almost similar theme wasn not that bad . the invariably good press this pretentious and overblown and overlong piece of gratuitous gore come from korean shore obtain make me wonder what happen . i do not think of myself a be the ultimate paragon of taste and often i be ready to accept that a movie i do not enjoy may be good than i be able to perceive . however and i have no scruple whatsoever in call this one a i see it represent bad and bad and bad . no redeem quality . my 2c . find something good to do with your time .