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Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002)

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Korean director Park Chan-wook followed up his highly acclaimed Joint Security Area with this tale of a deaf mute named Ryu (Shin Ha-kyun) trying to help his sister (Lim Ji-Eun) get a kidney transplant. Because his blood type is incompatible and no donors are available, he turns to a group of black-market organ dealers who offer to find one in return for one of his and ten million won. The dealers rip him off, so Ryu conspires with his girlfriend, a political activist, to kidnap his former boss'

R, 2 hr. 1 min.

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The only redeeming point of this movie is about 75% of the way through. A man, clearly mentally retarded- wanders into the film and becomes an instant star. Compared to the much more retarded plot line and terrible script, he was actually a genius. There is no effort to explain why he is in the movie, but personally,

November 23, 2011

A great plot with twists and turns all of which are unfortunately laid out here in the movie info. You can foretell the UN-Hollywood outcome from the halfway mark. The movie suffers by comparison to Old Boy and JSA, but Mr Park's hand is quite obvious. A must for his fans and obsessive-compulsives hung up on the number

July 6, 2011

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