Oldboy

2013 • 104 minutes

3.4

96 reviews

39%

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Eligible

About this movie

Spike Lee's remake of the critically acclaimed Korean masterpiece, OLDBOY, follows the story of Joe Doucette (Josh Brolin), a man who is abruptly kidnapped and held hostage for 20 years in solitary confinement, for no apparent reason. When he is suddenly released without explanation, he begins an obsessive mission to find out who imprisoned him, only to discover that the real mystery is why he was set free. (Original Title - Oldboy)

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Ratings and reviews

3.4

96 reviews

Stuart Robb

April 22, 2014

Dreadful, awful. Rooted nowhere, unrealistic fights, characters you don't care about. Why bother with the story at all, it's all so unbearable. School boy writing. Equally bad execution. What's frustrating is that it could have been brilliant.

Aidan Ma

September 16, 2019

The Original 2003 is a masterpiece, this ' adaptation ' misses the whole damn point of what made the original, ' The best example of Asian cinema '. If you have watched this, without seeing the original, I can only pray for you.

Daniel Ware

August 1, 2014

Watch the original because it's an absolute classic. This isn't bad but they changed the ending to be less shocking, apart from that the plot is the same.

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