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Reviews Counted: 53
Fresh: 29
Rotten:24
Average Rating: 6.1/10
Consensus: Though Park directs with stylistic flair, this revenge thriller is more excessively gruesome than thrilling.
Runtime: 2 hrs 9 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Theatrical Release: Aug 19, 2005 Limited
Synopsis: RYU (SHIN Ha-kyun), a young factory worker, has recently quit art school in order to look after his sister, who is dying a slow, agonizing death for want of a kidney. When a doctor tells Ryu that he is an unsuitable donor and that the chances of... [More]
Park forces us to consider a world where good intentions go awry, decent people do bad things, and fate deals cruel cards. But even at its darkest moments, Sympathy finds surprising and heartbreaking shreds of humanity.
Confirms Park's mastery of a niche style of cinema that is glossy, morbid and childishly provocative.
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Executed with style and it sets up a situation that provides some food for thought.
The best way to describe it is as the work of an artist -- director Chanwook Park -- who possesses both a conscience and a burning desire to use images to tell stories.
A stylish exercise with some agreeably weird touches, but as a whole it substitutes atmosphere for coherence or credibility.
Park prizes craftsmanship over bargain-bin schlock. It's an odd testament to his spiritedness that, despite the coldblooded killing and trail of the dead, Mr. Vengeance feels warmly suffused with life.
Top Critic Almost every scene contains something surprising, even startling -- we feel as if Park is searching for a new way of seeing...
The movie begins as a tragic tale of sacrifice and love... intense and understandably moving. It gets a little less interesting when it turns into a gore-fest.
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Fun, up to a point, but once it crosses its own internal Rubicon it becomes downright horrific, with blood and torture and the vertiginous sense of being unable to wake from a particularly arresting nightmare.
It is a worthy start to a trilogy and to a director who is fast establishing himself as a new light in Asian cinema.
Top Critic It's not a new idea, that violence destroys everyone, no matter the 'righteousness' of their cause. But it's one worth relearning.
While there's no denying that Park has strong visual skills, his content so far is in appalling bad taste.
There's powerful drama in watching Ryu and Dong-Jin take their inevitable paths toward destruction, but not enough to mitigate the stomach-turning luridness along those paths.
Park's juvenile obsession with blatant gross-outs belies his many talents.
March 17, 2008:
Charlize Theron Has Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
She'll spend the summer blending humor and superhero action with Will Smith and Jason Bateman in Hancock, but Charlize Theron already has Vengeance on her mind. More...
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