Any fans of Oldboy will love this. Electrifying!
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Velcro, I can only say; I never saw anything so raw, visceral, violent, unflinching and thoroughly mesmerizing than this. The only thing that compares to it are the brutal battle scenes in Braveheart. And this movie is 2 1/2 hours long and doesn't let up.
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I'm sure it's awesome, but I can wait. The comic store in town rents indy and cult movies so I usually have to wait for them to get movies like this. The theater here finally screened Black Swan once it was a lock for a nomination, and me and the comic shop owner were the only people in the auditorium. So sad.
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So, I'm working in Portland for a few days and I'm walking up 10th Ave when I see a poster for "I Saw The Devil" on the side of a building that looks like a bar. Turns out, I'd found Living Room Theaters and they were playing the movie. I was already too late to watch the one screening they were showing per night, but I went back the next night and managed to be the first person into the auditorium.
What an awesome film. It had a brilliant and compelling story, phenomenal acting, engaging characters with depth who actually develop as the story progresses and it was fun to watch. Basically, it was everything Sucker Punch wasn't. After the slouching, groaning and eye-rolling induced by that infuriatingly awful piece of celluloid butt-wipe, I really needed a film like this to restore my hope in the medium (what I'm saying is Sucker Punch is a really bad movie.)