Average Rating: 7/10
Reviews Counted: 84
Fresh: 62 | Rotten: 22
Stylistically flashy and gruesomely violent, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance fits in nicely with the other two films of Park's revenge trilogy.
Average Rating: 7.3/10
Critic Reviews: 22
Fresh: 18 | Rotten: 4
Stylistically flashy and gruesomely violent, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance fits in nicely with the other two films of Park's revenge trilogy.
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Preceded by the films "Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance" and "Oldboy," this final installment of director Park Chan-wook's vengeance trilogy finds a woman seeking revenge after she is framed and betrayed by a co-conspriator.
Jul 29, 2005 Wide
Sep 5, 2006
Picture This! Entertainment
All Critics (88) | Top Critics (23) | Fresh (65) | Rotten (22) | DVD (18)
... as brutal as it is beautiful.
Squanders plot impetus, and even with constant crosscutting it's lethargically paced, slogging through soap-operatic back stories and maddening irrelevancies.
The films strain to present some kind of moral compass, a philosophy of revenge's human toll. But in the end, their sadistic glee in creative bloodshed trumps all.
Because I am a connoisseur of art cinema, my feelings about Lady Vengeance are complex. Some parts I liked; some parts I didn't.
Powered by a glowering performance by actress Lee Young Ae, it is a walloping tale.
For once Park has stopped smirking long enough to consider the practical point of violence in a way that's pertinent to his own gruesome cinematic pursuits.
As a man is made to mediate the terms of his own murder, Park Chan-wook offers a perfect resolution to his "Vengeance" trilogy: an acutely agonizing elegy for whatever shred of humanity is left after the impulse for vengeance has worked itself out.
... do we cheer on the grisly justice or question whether turning suffering victim into blood-spattered torturer and executioner brings any peace to the soul?
Talks Sin and Salvation while spending all his creative energies on debasing gags and sneering wide-angle shots
Park Chanwook works his Grand Guignol sense of humor against Korean social conditions to effect a call-and-response logic to the metaphoric and literal things that happen onscreen.
The kind of glorious sensory rush that you can only get when a supremely confident director fully kicks out the jams. Submerged within the flash, however, is a nihilistic worldview that may be even more curdled than its predecessors.
in Lady Vengeance, revenge is ultimately a shabby, sordid business that leaves everybody soiled and in need of purification - or at least of a pie in the face.
If you have a taste for revenge or just a taste for wickedly well-done filmmaking, help yourself to a serving of Lady Vengeance.
What most will take from Lady Vengeance is a director in love with film and the ability to express that passion through the language of his medium.
Exciting, nerve-wracking and utterly original.
No capítulo final de sua trilogia sobre a Vingança, Park (com seu dom habitual para criar belíssimos quadros) concebe um conto de moralidade surpreendente, complexo e assustador, levando o espectador a confrontar sua própria percepção sobre o assunto.
Park Chanwook's latest revenge thriller isn't as graphic as earlier ones, but may be even more psychologically violent -- and that's a compliment, as it leads to astounding revelations about guilt and justice.
Didn't have enough heart for me to find its soft spot.
The theme of how all-around bad revenge is starts to wear a little thin... But there's always a perverse delight in just watching how a Park movie is executed.
A collideorscape it is, and a very fine one.
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"Listen carefully. Everyone make mistakes. But if you committed a sin, you have to make an atonement for that sin. Atonement, do you know what that means? Big Atonement for big sins. Small Atonement for small sins."After thirteen and half years in prison for kidnapping and murdering the boy Park Won-mo,
April 4, 2009
Super Reviewer
Worth a watch just for the phenomenal ending. Personally, my favorite of the vengeance trilogy.
August 19, 2011Super Reviewer
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