Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002)
In Seoul, the deaf and dumb worker Ryu is very attached to his sister, who needs a transplantation of kidney. He tries to donate his own kidney to his sister, but his blood B type is not compatible with her. When Ryu is fired from Ilshin Electronics, he meets illegal dealers of organs and the criminals propose Ryu's kidney plus ten millions Won per a kidney suitable for his sister. Ryu accepts the trade, but he does not have money to pay for the surgery... (imdb)
Genres: Drama, Suspense/Thriller, Crime, Action
Franchise: The Vengeance Trilogy
AKA: Boksuneun naui geot
Country: South Korea
Directed By: Chan-wook Park
Written By: Chan-wook Park, Jae-sun Lee, Mu-yeong Lee
Starring: Kang-ho Song, Ha-kyun Shin, Ju-bong Gi, Doona Bae, Ji-Eun Lim, Bo-bae Han, Se-dong Kim, Dae-yeon Lee, Jae-yeong Jeong, Kan-hie Lee, Gyu-su Jeong, Masashi Fujimoto
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Oldboy (probably most people's introduction to the trilogy) is gleefully hyperbolic. It knows that it's ridiculous, grotesque, and barely human and makes no concessions. It reads like a comic book. Mr. Vengeance, otoh, adopts a much more serious dramatic tone and slower pace - not to say there isn't more than a helping of ultraviolence. Ultimately director Park Chan-Wook just isn't as good at the human drama thing as he is at the thriller aspect, so it falls a little short of its sequel.
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This is a very bleak and brutal movie with a few bits of levity and humor early on. Not as over the top or artsy as Lady Vengeance and definitely not a visceral and mean as OldBoy. I felt the film meandered a bit too much and that none of the characters were likeable or believable. It's still a great movie just not as good as the other films in the "trilogy".
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Thriller? Action? while you're at it, Medieval Fantasy? OK, to see that we have to watch until the third act, meaning, forty minutes until the end, so an hour and a ten minutes of an Asian Drama, prelude to the Crimes but not a Thriller neither an Action movie. Asian films as usual badly tagged. By the way, I do not know who did the plot resume but hideous one.
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One of the three movies that focus in the themes of vengance by Park Chan-wook. This one in particular is more real but that's what makes it more disheartening. The film has this particular atmosphere of dreariness which is amplified by the long silences whenever Ryu is involved. The direction allows the movie to show and not tell, using the talent from its actors and the robust screenplay brings you into this story of morbidness, regret and pain in which all the characters are stuck.
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