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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD EAN: 0842498030240 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Tartan Video Languages: Manufacturer: Tartan Video MPN: DTVD3024D Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Tartan Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: September 26, 2006 Running Time: 112 minutes Studio: Tartan Video Theatrical Release Date: 2005 Editorial Review: Amazon.com: The third stop in Chan-wook Park's breathless revenge trilogy, Lady Vengeance comes down slightly--just slightly--from the astonishing highs of middle segment Oldboy. Elegant and ultraviolent in equal measures, Lady Vengeance requires rapt attention from the opening moments, as Park unloads his set-up in a jumble of characters and flashbacks. At the center is a doll-faced ex-con named Geum-ja (Yeong-ae Lee), who just spent 13 years in the slammer for killing a little boy. There's much more to her case than the public knows, and Geum-ja has been carefully, quietly preparing for revenge against the man who put her in this situation. We watch those gears turning throughout the movie, but as Lady Vengeance nears its completion it broadens into an even bigger event than Geum-ja expected. Funny and horrifying, Lady Vengeance is as measured as Geum-ja's own preparations, and has a gorgeous sort of logic about it. As impressive as those machinations are to watch, the movie doesn't make as forceful an argument as Oldboy on just how revenge might be as punishing to the revenge-taker as for his target. Lee is a cool heroine, and Min-sik Choi, who did such heroically exhausting service in Oldboy, is here employed as the monster. (The film's title in the U.S., Lady Vengeance, is different from international title Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, a closer tie to the first part of the trilogy, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance.) --Robert Horton Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Arresting imagesFew are the classic movies which leaves us with scenes and images we will never forget. Sympathy for Lady Vengeance has several such. It is a movie filled with extra ordinary moments of beauty, cruelty or deep emotion. Please, please, please watch it. It is an experience out of the ordinary, both in terms of story telling style as well as the quality through-out. Rating: - Artistic and Entertaining...This is the third film in the vengeance trilogy and the best for my money. It is visually stunning and also gritty. Revenge has never been so artistic and beatiful while being painful and dark. I won't spoil it for any future watchers, but I will say that that the story is gripping and you won't be able to look away. enjoy Rating:  - This movie, to put it plainly, sucksAlright. Let me say this, if you are looking for a really artsy movie that is not entertaining but is unpleasant as well as disturbing this is your movie. Do not be fooled into thinking that you are in for something like Kill Bill, or a Bittersweet Life, or any "cool" violent movie. This movie isn't like them. I cannot beleive I wasted my time on it, and I would recomend that anyone who says this is a good movie or that they enjoyed this movie be institutionalized. And it isn't sophisticated ... Read More Rating:  - Good film, with some reservationsLady Vengeance, the third installment in Park Chan-Wook trilogy of vengeance is some notches below the masterpiece that was Old Boy (I have not seen the first movie, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance) but it is still a well-made film, worth seeing. In this case, as the title suggests, is a woman who seeks revenge, Lee Geum-Ja, after being held in prison for thirteen years for the murder of a child he did not commit (but was involved in the kidnapping). She was forced to confess to the murder after the murderer, ... Read More Rating: - stunningthis movie popped up on my netflix as a "suggestion" and i didn't give it much thought but added it anyway. that was six months ago. i have rented it another two times since and now i'm just going to break down and buy it. i have since seen the other two installments in the revenge trilogy (in backwards order) and this is by far the most thrilling for me. the imagery and soundtrack are stellar and the story is engaging. i'm pretty picky about movies and i'm not easily impressed. this film left more ... Read More |
