Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
15,839
Thriller
Lady Vengeance tells the story of Kum-ja, a woman who takes revenge after serving 13 years in jail in place of an evil man who abducts and kills a 6-year-old boy. Two thirds of the story shows how Kum-ja gets involved in the murder case and how she prepares for the revenge. Choi Min-sik (Oldboy), plays the villian Mr Baek. It combines the theme of kidnapping from Sympathy for Mr Vengeance with the imprisonment of Oldboy. This movie will ... [+]
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"South Korean director Park Chan-wook's tremendous conclusion to his Vengeance trilogy is a modern classic" | ||||
"A kinder, gentler exercise in empty virtuosity" | ||||
"[An] inflammatory, inimitable movie inventory of hell on earth" | ||||
"A film with the capacity to both sicken and delight, a dark thriller with an obsessive, shocking story, shot in gorgeous images that heighten the gruesomeness and horror of what they reveal" | ||||
"While the film never really achieves the emotional resonance to which it clearly aspires, its sheer inventiveness and bravura visual style deliver plenty of entertaining moments along the way" |
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