Oldboy 2003 iLK21 LayarKaca21Year 2003Duration 120 Min2157 votes, average out of 10 With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate businessman seeks revenge on his captors. Tagline15 years of imprisonment, five days of vengeance Release1 Jan 2003 Language한국어/조선말 Budget$ Revenue$ CastAhn Yeon-suk, Choi Min-sik, Ji Dae-Han, Kang Hye-jung, Kim Byeong-ok, Lee Dae-yeon, Lee Seung-Shin, Oh Dal-su, Oh Gwang-rok, Oh Tae-kyung, Yoo Ji-tae, Yoo Yeon-seok, Yoon Jin-Seo

Cast & crewUser reviewsTrivia2013R1h 44mPlay clip110Watch OldboyObsessed with vengeance, a man sets out to find out why he was kidnapped and locked into solitary confinement for twenty years without with vengeance, a man sets out to find out why he was kidnapped and locked into solitary confinement for twenty years without with vengeance, a man sets out to find out why he was kidnapped and locked into solitary confinement for twenty years without production, box office & company infoVideos15More like thisReview A remake that's just about adequate on its own merits, but is hardly a patch on the film on which it was remakes of Asian films are always an iffy proposition. How will the nuances and culturally-specific references translate across oceans and continents? Generally, however good the remakes, they rarely – if ever – eclipse the original films. In recent memory, perhaps only Martin Scorsese's The Departed, based on Infernal Affairs, has managed to find a life of its own. Other remakes, like The Lake House and Shall We Dance?, have sunk into ignominy. Spike Lee's Oldboy isn't completely terrible, but it does lose quite a bit of the dark, bruising, ambivalent flavour of Park Chan-Wook's 2003 Korean Brolin takes centre stage in Lee's version. He sinks credibly into the abrasive, drunken skin of Joe Doucett, a slimy guy whose wife and daughter Mia have left him. Nevertheless, Joe continues to merrily offend everyone around him, until he is abruptly kidnapped and trapped in a hotel room for twenty years. During his arduous time spent in solitary confinement, Joe ponders the mystery of his captor. When he finally gets free, he resolves to seek revenge and re-connect with Mia – a mission that becomes increasingly fraught with complications as horrifying secrets from his past are its own merits, Oldboy – the title as obtuse as ever – is passably gripping. It entertains and horrifies in equal measure, packing in a great deal of bone-crunching violence and torture that runs the gamut from physical to psychological and everything in between. The relationship that develops between Joe and charity worker Marie Elizabeth Olsen is well-acted, if a little forced. Lee even cooks up a pretty disturbing face-off between Joe and Chaney Samuel L. Jackson, the guy in charge of locking up people for his clients – no questions works rather less well is the deliberate dilution of the twist in Oldboy's tale, presumably because American audiences can only handle so much moral and emotional ambiguity. Where Park's version sees the revenge mission warped with a horrifyingly emotional dilemma, Lee's film shies away from the conundrum. As a result, the film becomes far less subtle and considerably more melodramatic. There's a flashback sequence towards the end of the film that's ridiculous enough to make audiences laugh rather than gasp, even as blood splatters across walls and families are torn cast assembled is impressive, even though they're not really given a lot to work with in the frequently stilted, over-blown script. Brolin anchors the film with admirably stony determination, but his Joe never seems to really feel the weight of his twenty years without human contact. Olsen, too, stumbles around a bit, as if never quite sure how to play her part, and Sharlto Copley comes close to overplaying his hand when he emerges from the shadows to drop a few hints about the reasons behind Joe's enough on display in Oldboy for the film to jog by at a fairly quick clip. Lee pays tribute along the way to a few iconic elements of the Korean film – an octopus in a tank, a prolonged battle in a corridor – and the cast tries its hardest to make it all work. But it's hard to shake the feeling that something a little deeper, richer, sadder and weirder was lost in translating the film into a vernacular more pleasing to Hollywood 1, 2013Movie and TV Reboots and RemakesMovie and TV Reboots and RemakesTake a side-by-side look at some of Hollywood's biggest reboots and the galleryFAQ3Contribute to this pageSuggest an edit or add missing contentWhat is the streaming release date of Oldboy 2013 in Australia?AnswerEdit pageMore to exploreRecently viewedYou have no recently viewed pages

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