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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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11/08/07
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 CriticThe 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 CriticPark 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.
04/15/09
Because 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
...meaningless lunacy...
10/06/05
Slick and frequently mesmerising, but ultimately it feels as calculated as the murky, melodramatic denouement.
04/01/06
Didn't have enough heart for me to find its soft spot.
12/20/06
With Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, Park Chanwook delivers more virtuosic but empty flash.
09/30/05
Somewhere over the course of this trilogy, most of the flavor has gone out.
07/13/06
Talks Sin and Salvation while spending all his creative energies on debasing gags and sneering wide-angle shots
08/30/09
Exhibits elegant craftsmanship...Unfortunately, the fragmentary narrative style and a distasteful final act leave it another near-miss.
06/30/06
The flashiest, funniest, and most baroque of the “Vengeance Trilogy.” It is also the most simpleminded and, despite that, eventually the most muddled.
09/30/05
Apart from Park's impressive but ultimately hollow style (his images are impeccably composed and visually inventive), Lady Vengeance is still an exercise in wretched excess (though less extreme than its predecessors).
06/23/06
It doesn't help that Lee's performance is pretty one-note. She doesn't seem too interested in exploring her character's human side, despite opportunities provided by Park.
07/01/06
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10/03/06
... a kinder, gentler exercise in empty virtuosity.
04/28/06
The freshness and ingenuity of Oldboy has been replaced with the kind of lazy self-satisfaction that often comes when a unique filmmaker unexpectedly achieves worldwide success and isn’t quite sure of how to handle it.
06/03/06
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March 17, 2008:
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