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| Year of first release: 2013 | |
| Director: Spike Lee | |
| Actors: Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Olsen, Sharlto Copley, Samuel L. Jackson | |
| Country: USA | |
| Genre: Action | |
| Conditions of visioning: 02.12.2013, Schauburg, OV sneak preview | |
| Synopsis: A man is kidnapped and locked without human contact for 20 years. When he is released, he is obsessed by vengeance. | |
| Review: After having seen this movie, I felt like: "ok, it is a remake of the Korean Old boy" and I recognized some cult scenes, but I knew something was missing that was a major point of the original movie, without remembering what it was. So I decided to watch the original. The Spike Lee version is a good movie. It shows some scenes with more clarity than the original movie so that it is easy to understand. The acting is nevertheless quite bad from Josh Brolin but maybe he could not save the role given by Spike Lee of superman, that differs from the original movie and turns this version a bit ridiculous. Sharlto Copley is even worse for the flash back scene at the end. And the revolutionary part of the original is not remaked at all and this is really a pity! Therefore the Spike Lee movie is good and entertaining, but nothing more. |
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Rating: 5 /10
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Thursday, December 5, 2013
Old boy (2013)
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So you saw this movie. I was not expecting more of it than what you describe: the typical weaknesses of asian movies removed (too long movie, weak ending...), but something more vital lost in translation. I had the same feeling when watching the poor remake of Internal Affairs by Martin Scorcese.
ReplyDeleteSo what is the scene you say was not kept from the original. Something to do with his daughter?