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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Mar 06 | emreekelees | 70 28% |
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Jan 26 | Phalanx | 65 65% |
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Jan 23 | Manric34 | 89 69% |
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Jan 23 | ![]() |
glumpy_99 | 91 80% |
Riveting, brilliantly executed thriller packs enough delicious and disturbing plotting into its first half to satisfy a whole film, before moving carefully and deliberately into a gut wrenching portrait of "vengeance" (via a character/focus shift of which Hitchcock would be proud). Contrasting the insidious snowballing of one characters misfortune with the eventually callously, deliberate acts of the "wronged" party makes for an invigorating (if troubling) experience.
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Jobs-Bronson | 30 37% |
Jan 17 | PotsyGrandpa | 80 50% |
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Dec 13, 2020 | John Marston | 84 54% |
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Dec 13, 2020 | LordKubrick | 74 23% |
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PerryStroika | 68 80% |
I turned this on with no idea what I was in for, ready to turn it off at multiple places but something kept me with it. It wasn't until maybe three quarters in that I realized how much this repellent yet fascinating movie had gotten in my head.
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scenoj | 55 4% |
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Dec 05, 2020 | slanbexx | 70 37% |
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Park Dong-jin: "I know you're a good guy... but you know why I have to kill you..."
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Oct 04, 2020 | mcirish52 | 89 79% |
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Weird.
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Jun 15, 2020 | gokayn | 94 84% |
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Apr 13, 2020 | castoffcrown | 84 63% |
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Apr 05, 2020 | cembo | 82 56% |
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Apr 05, 2020 | GavanRex | 91 66% |
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oskarhu | 78 62% |
Although the unpleasant imagery this film lives off is too often self-serving, it doesn’t spoil the positives that drive the intriguing drama between the main characters.
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cankutozturk | 76 66% |
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Viewed March 3, 2020.
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Oct 19, 2019 | itay | 50 10% |
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bhajansunlo | 65 46% |
The film feels too smitten with its own cleverness both narratively and technically. Despite the overly contrived structure, it does have several moments and images that stick. Many of these flaws are addressed in the sequels.
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Hisingen | 70 51% |
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Insan3 | 95 98% |
Amazing film about the cycle of violence and, as the title says revenge. After a certain point it just never lets up and becomes.difficult as hell to watch. Definitely glad I saw it though.
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Jun 30, 2019 | duperman | 59 11% |
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Jun 27, 2019 | mbramhald13 | 80 70% |
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Mar 17, 2019 | tallkotte | 7 77% |
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peyrin | 75 69% |
Park Chan-wook knows how to frame a long still shot, goddamn. Preferred the first half over the gory second half myself but I suppose I'd better get used to it for the next two in the trilogy. Song Kang-ho is goat as always
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Mar 11, 2019 | greger_jens | 70 73% |
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Once again (as with Old Boy), not my kind of story, but every scene is visually exciting and fresh. Sort of like an Asian Tarantino...
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Average Percentile 64.58% from 2517 Ratings | ![]() |