... a kinder, gentler exercise in empty virtuosity.
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04/28/06
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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
Lady Vengeance dazzles us with cinematic savoir-faire, but it is ultimately as cold, calculating and contradictory as its anti-heroine.
04/27/06
Top CriticProbably like nothing you've seen before, but you'd have to be pretty sick and twisted to really get off on it.
04/27/06
The whole process adds up to a fairly impressive two-stage thrill ride.
04/27/06
The whole process adds up to a fairly impressive two-stage thrill ride,
04/27/06
It concludes Park's trilogy on a dual note of circular tragedy and fragile hope, while working equally well as an introduction to his universe of retribution and repentance or as a stand-alone thriller with a darkly feminist twist.
04/26/06
Chan-wook has examined many aspects of the concept of revenge, including the most lasting: consequences. For many movies, the act of retribution is the point of the film. For Chan-wook, it's the starting point for a larger tapestry.
04/25/06
Top CriticLady Vengeance is his most sullen and patient film, and yet it's breathless pop filmmaking, narratively mercurial, viscerally traumatic, and thematically infernal.
04/25/06
Top CriticAt once the msot stylized and dullest of the Park trilogy.
04/20/06
Transfixing and transcendent.
04/12/06
Slick and frequently mesmerising, but ultimately it feels as calculated as the murky, melodramatic denouement.
04/01/06
Lady Vengeance isn't as horrifying as its predecessor but it's certainly powerful enough to end the trilogy on a high note. One thing is for sure... no one dishes out vengeance quite like Chan-wook Park.
03/20/06
The Vengeance Trilogy is a remarkable accomplishment not only for Park, but for world cinema and lovers of the extreme who finally have a collection of films they can truly call art.
02/25/06
Tough, unrelenting and powerfully moving.
02/18/06
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
An unsettling mix of stylish visuals, surreal fantasy, and shocking violence.
02/07/06
He wants to get into the black heart of revenge, and his films are testaments to that journey.
12/13/05
Alternately wonky -- a late plot twist will leave you thinking a couple of the film's reels went missing -- and offensive as only an elegant depiction of brutal violence can be, Lady Vengeance is meretricious nonsense.
12/11/05
Like a fairy tale with fangs, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance promises pleasurable escapism, but ensnares its audience in a thorny line of questioning.
11/01/05
Park's elegant new melodrama... raises meaty questions about vigilantism—unlike Tarantino's similarly plotted and pop-styled Kill Bill.
10/08/05
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