Oldboy

Violent, spectacular, and visceral in more than one sense, Oldboy isn't for the faint-hearted. It's certainly gripping, and stylish, too, painting from a broad but consistent tonal palette - but, all up, it didn't give me all that much, its moves wreathed in internal conviction and force but without much external reference...or something like that, anyway. Put another way (though saying something slightly different), it was well made and held my attention, but I'm just not that into this kind of film.