14/04/2014

Oldboy (2013)

Spike Lee does a remake of the 'classic' South Korean flick from 10 years ago, the critics all turn their pompous noses up at it, ignore them.

If you don't know the story, here goes, some fella gets kidnapped and imprisoned for 20 years, he is then released and contacted by his kidnappers with a proposition, "who am I and why did I do it?"

Josh Brolin stars as he (literally) cracks heads with his trusty hammer, he doesn't eat a live Octopus like in the original but does get jiggy with Elizabeth Olsen, the dirty old (lucky) bugger.

Mega violent, all rather silly, but very entertaining with an evil killer twist.

*****

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