The story grabs you by the tie your wearing and never lets go… literally!  The movie starts with our main lead being taken from a phone booth on his daughters 3rd birthday and imprisoned without reason.  With just a small hotel room size prison cell consisting of a bed, a television, and a bathroom, Dae-su sits around rotting for 15 years until he is suddenly released.

Revenge entails, but first he must find out who held him or why and how his wife is dead and daughter ended up missing.  Joined by Mi-do, a woman he met in a sushi bar; Dae-su tries to find out what happened.  With a story that continues with Dae-su learning martial arts and ending with one of the bloodiest and best movie twists in cinema history, this is truly a must see for those who can handle it as revenge can be quite brutal.

Opening scene of the film 

  This story of revenge, although demented, feels real. Think Orsen Wells with a dash of Tarentino served on a revenge drama that you would have to be stupid not to rent.  OLDBOY is a stunning plot driven drama that speaks of the two stronger human feelings, love and hatred. This is quite simply one of those contemporary masterpieces that puts almost everything I've seen to shame. Imagine America's best movie-making innovators and take away the restrictions that the MPAA placed on them and you would get films like these; actual pieces of art. Don’t get me wrong; art can be dark and gruesome, as I wouldn’t go as far as to say this movie is beautiful. I don’t truly find beauty in the extreme actions of torture and passion found in this film. I have always held that making a film extreme – in and of itself – does not make a good movie. That said, there are both bad and good extreme films. With its engaging storyline and entertainment value, OLDBOY is an unequivocal example of the latter. If you like cinema to feel and think, and don’t mind the lust of human love and revenge, then OLDBOY is recommended.

 The famous hammer fight scene

Dae-su Oh and Mi-Do notifying a friend that they were "bugged"