It's a movie of such jaw-dropping violence, wild improbability and dazzling style it overpowers all resistance.
90
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
Whatever its oversteps and excesses (I do think Park ran a little amok with the computer gimcrackery), Oldboy has the bulldozing nerve and full-blooded passion of a classic.
88
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
As always with Park Chanwook, you just hold on and let him rip.
88
Premiere
Glenn Kenny
Once the picture gets into Hollywood's bloodstream, it could well prove to be as influential as John Woo's 1989 crime thriller, "The Killer."
80
Variety
Derek Elley
A wild, intensely cinematic ride into two men's burning desire to get even.