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Critics Consensus: Its script doesn't quite carry the dramatic heft of his earlier work, but Park Chan-wook's Stoker showcases his eye for sumptuous imagery and his affection for dark, atmospheric narratives populated by mysterious characters.
Critic Consensus: Its script doesn't quite carry the dramatic heft of his earlier work, but Park Chan-wook's Stoker showcases his eye for sumptuous imagery and his affection for dark, atmospheric narratives populated by mysterious characters.
All Critics (193) | Top Critics (45) | Fresh (133) | Rotten (60) | DVD (1)
It's too safe, too knotty, too wastefully handsome, too dull.
Stoker trembles between the portentous and the ridiculous, and I think you know which one is going to win. The audience does make its decision: They've been had yet again.
Stoker is a movie about tension and inaction, about people trying to figure out what's going on in someone else's head.
Stoker is a cunning exercise in transgression. But one can't help but wonder what kind of film Park might have made if he'd had the full creative control to which he's accustomed in Korea.
None of it is life-changing, but it is effectively eerie. Stylishly spooky, even.
"Stoker" plays out like a Kabuki "Macbeth": gallons of style slathered on a story you already know by heart.
Park is a director of detail, and nothing goes unnoticed here.
Park Chan-Wook was aiming for a Hitchcockian feel with this one, but we instead got a Brian De Palma film, and not a good one.
Unfortunately, acting and stunning technical ability cannot elevate a B-level script very high.
Better casting might have redeemed the logic-challenged script.
It's a horror film with no horror, and one of the all-around finest examples of quality film production.
Stoker is a brilliantly inventive Gothic fairy tale gone wrong, with devilish shades of Hitchcock.
Imagine growing up in the Addams family only nobody told you. Everybody just seems to deny it. But, come your 18th birthday, voila, the truth comes out. Eerie and spooky without ever saying why, I got a kick out of this walk on the weird side.
Super Reviewer
Wasikowska's creepy and hardly bearable character is only one the problems of this mis-structured thriller that also tries to extract tension from a mystery that we don't even know is there - and when it is finally revealed, everything that follows is made entirely predictable.
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Dark, twisted story. Not sure I got it all, but fascinating and beautifully filmed and acted. One to rewatch, I think!
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