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.
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Lady Vengeance (2005)
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Reviews Counted:82
Fresh:60
Rotten:22
Average Rating:6.9/10
Consensus: Stylistically flashy and gruesomely violent, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance fits in nicely with the other two films of Park's revenge trilogy.
Theatrical Release:Apr 28, 2006 Limited
Synopsis: South Korean maestro Park Chan-wook concludes his Revenge Trilogy with the operatic, mesmerizing SYMPATHY FOR LADY VENGEANCE. Unlike the first two films in the trilogy--SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE... [More]
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Reviews for Lady Vengeance
Didn't have enough heart for me to find its soft spot.
12/20/06
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07/22/06
Park's elegant new melodrama... raises meaty questions about vigilantism—unlike Tarantino's similarly plotted and pop-styled Kill Bill.
10/08/05
In the end Geum-ja emerges as a stirring feminist icon...
05/03/06
Top CriticThe 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.
10/21/07
...less brilliant than Oldboy but still brilliant.
05/25/06
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.
07/10/07
Pound-of-flesh cinema, you might say.
06/24/06
If you have a taste for revenge or just a taste for wickedly well-done filmmaking, help yourself to a serving of Lady Vengeance.
04/19/07
... as brutal as it is beautiful.
08/06/06
Top CriticPark 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.
12/30/06
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.
03/24/07
Squanders plot impetus, and even with constant crosscutting it's lethargically paced, slogging through soap-operatic back stories and maddening irrelevancies.
06/30/06
Top CriticNot for the feint of heart, but if you like watching revenge served cold (with cake), this is worth a look.
06/30/06
He wants to get into the black heart of revenge, and his films are testaments to that journey.
12/13/05
Park is a crazily confident filmmaker who crafts gorgeous images and whose transitions between scenes are breathtaking.
06/30/06
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.
06/29/06
Top CriticBecause I am a connoisseur of art cinema, my feelings about Lady Vengeance are complex. Some parts I liked; some parts I didn't.
06/29/06
The first hour will test the patience of all but diehard fans of the genre, flipping randomly through time before things settle down for a final 50 minutes examining the ethics of revenge.
02/10/06
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March 17, 2008:
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