InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Myron Clemons A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Kimball Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

abednasser I didn't like this movie at all, sometimes I got lost during watching it as the plot was not clear, but most of all I hate its ultra-violence

cinemajesty Director Chan-wook Park presents his talent in visual story-telling in this twisted Crime-Drama of a fired factory worker, who kidnaps his former boss's daughter. Collaborating with his favorite actor of choice Kanf-ho Song, the director is able to improve "Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance" progression with on-going running time before all the accumulated energy suddenly breaks out at around 85 Minutes into the movie. Some skillful scenes of murder action emerges without shying away of showing the violence within the human condition, yet avoiding the trap of glorifying the torturing acts, where Director Chan-wook Park shows taste and respect for the audiovisual art form of motion pictures, which already peaked with his international breakthrough picture "Oldboy" (2003) the year after.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

praneethmendu If you his saw this movie because of Oldboy like me u might feel this is a mild prequel but the truth is both the movies quiet different .Revenge and unimaginable situations that make the world look so delicate are common. The camera is kept still and panned out most of the time .The background music is used in very selected places .Sets and locations are detailed and picturesque. The plot is as dark as it gets but it feels very possible.It is very slow but in a sharp way lets the story sink in .Unlike most slow drama movies it is not ambiguous, Suspense is also well maintained .There is an unpredictability not because the characters are so but because the situations are such that u wont be able to judge what anyone would do there.I felt so satisfied by this movie .It increased my respect for korean movies .2 Hours of suspense and bewilderment ,very clear and intense.

mcrothers09 For anyone reading this review and considering watching this movie, please immediately switch your attention to, "Sympathy for Lady Vengeance", which is twice the movie Mr. Vengeance is. My reasoning? I am not a native Korean and I found it difficult to follow the time-line and individual characters watching with English subtitles. The same issue arose with Lady Vengeance but the simple ploy of Lady Vengeance wearing distinctive red eye-shadow meant she was always easily identifiable. I do not wish to sound in any way racist but when every Korean person in these movies is virtually identical - ladies with homogeneous height, body shape, hair colour and make-up, men with the same dark side-shade and suits (although one character in Mr. Vengeance has green hair) - it is very difficult for non-Asians to follow just exactly who everybody is and their importance to the plot when using English subtitles.Both Mr. and Lady are dark movies which depict the less-well-off areas and people of South Korea. Both movies show grim realities that are a reflection of SK culture and religious beliefs - to me it is a cross between old-school American evangelicalism and old-school Japanese cultural rigidity (apologies to Koreans for liking them to Japanese and vice-versa). There are scenes in both movies but particularly Mr. Vengeance that I cannot envisage being shown in western movie theatres (two "niche" sex-scenes and very believable torture). Overall I found Lady Vengeance more coherent, less depraved and Lady Vengeance infused me with sympathies that quite honestly did not manifest in Mr. Vengeance - so Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance is a complete failure in that my true sympathies lay with the characters upon whom vengeance was visited, not the "righteously indignant" party. Mr. Vengeance - 6/10 Lady Vengeance - 8.5/10