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I can't say I get all the Oldboy love. Sweet premise, and intense, but beyond that I didn't find it all that satisfying. It also seemed like a fairly gratuitous exercise in shock, in places, kinda like a somewhat gentler Miike film (which from the little I've seen I'm not a big fan of either.)

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Yeah, I agree, it's incredibly beautifully shot, and some of the scenes are just breathtaking visually, but all the "vengeance trilogy" movies are really shallow, which robs them of the emotional impact they could have had. I would say it's analogous to "Kill Bill" in that it's technically very well done but totally lacking in character development and plot, which makes it more a work of art than a story.