|
|
|
Lady Vengeance
|
|
|
Large Photo
|
Starring: Yeong-ae Lee, Min-sik Choi, Tony Barry, Anne Cordiner, Su-hee Go
Director: Chan-wook Park
MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Tartan Video
Running Time: 112 minutes
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Amazon.com Sales Rank: 14589
Average Customer Rating: 
UPC: 842498030240
List price: $19.99
|
Save 36%
off list price
Price Range: $12.72 - $18.99
|
|
|
17 Merchants
|
|
|
|
Compare Prices
|
|
Product Description:
After being blackmailed and wrongly imprisoned for 13 years a beautiful woman is finally set free. Now her brutally elaborate plan for vengeance against the true criminal can begin to unfold. Studio: Genius Products Inc Release Date: 05/13/2008 Run time: 112 minutes Rating: R
From 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
Advisable - 
|
Lady Vengeance DVD Review
|
|
|
I had watched the other 2 movies of this trilogy, for that reason I couldn't stop to buy this to complete it.
If somebody doesn't know this trilogy, I recommend it, it is simply remarkable.
|
|
A gun, a sin, and the things that were untold that get told again. -
|
Lady Vengeance DVD Review
|
|
|
While sometimes called the weakest of the three revenge tales, Lady v. is a great stand-alone film and the comparions here is an unfair one. Trying to take Old Boy and Sympathy for Mr. V. and group the three does make the tale weaker in ways, but the tale also has its strong points and is a different tale altogether. It deals with threats and missing children, and with a woman that networked while behind bars in order to become the thing she needed to be. While behind bars she was a model of transformation, becoming everything that was asked of her. She also made friends by taking up for the weak and the needy, doing some fairly terrible things in order to seutre friendships. and, when she found herself released, she called upon these people because she needed something. She needed something she designed in jail, and way to make herself untouchable after her plan went into effect, and other things that were unexpected from such a great person.
The mask must have been heavy, I kept thinking, and the years must have been long. In some ways that made me pity the person that she was thinking about taking her frustrations out on.
As far as the movie goes, the script was great, the twists were superb, and the end was one that I really didn't see coming. The counterpart to our Lady was equally well-acted, as were the people that we ran across during our tale. Considering the reviews i saw in the newspapaer this surprised me, but more surprising was the way the story was touching and made you side with Lady V. The staging of all the horrible things that the movie provies are equally as good, and - taken by itself - it is a great watch. In fact, it could be argued that this movie spoke in a different tone than the other movies spoke in, and this was why some people different understand that it was a different taste altogether.
If you liked the two other movies, check this out and make sure not to copmpare these. See it as stand-alone and compare it to itself, and you'll see something that it transfixing and beautifully done. I say this because i started out doing exactly what I am saying not to do, and I think I missed out on the stand-alone portion of the movie because of that. Even if you did not like the other movies for some reason, you might find this to your liking. It has violence and it has blood, but the horrors seen here are not as gruesome as some of the things I saw before. Instead of being a machine, our lead was a widow waiting in the web, and all the little fibers are beautiful to see as they are spun.
I really recommend the movie - it isn't a third movie but is instead a thing unto itself. Well worth seeing.
|
|
Justice Served Cold... -
|
Lady Vengeance DVD Review
|
|
|
After spending 13 years in prison for a murder she did not commit, Ghuem-Ja (Yeong-Ae Lee) is released. Thus begins her story of transformation from lovely young girl into avenging angel of justice long overdue. Along the way, we are given bits and pieces of Ghuem-Ja's life, both in and out of prison. She is a complex woman of remarkable patience and skill. Her plan is flawless. Her aim is true. The grand finalé of LADY VENGEANCE is another visceral jaw-popper of vicarious bloodletting. I found myself both horrified and satisfied w/ this mighty twist. LV delivers the revenge, along w/ the agonizing sorrow / rage that fires it. A violent, sometimes hilarious, often heartbreaking classic of payback in spades...
|
|
Haiku review: stylistically brilliant, elliptical, powerful, moody and dark film about vengeance, atonement, and redemption -
|
Lady Vengeance DVD Review
|
|
|
Young boy, sad mistake
Thirteen years, long time to wait
Snow falls on white cake
|
|
One of my favs -
|
Lady Vengeance DVD Review
|
|
|
This is by far one of my favourite films. The production style alone puts it up with the likes of films like "kill bill", and "requiem for a dream".
The story line is however unique in the sense of how the revenge is achieved. It does not focus soley on vengeance, but also on the development of the main character (Geum-ja) through out her teen-age years up to her 30's.
Revenge is sweet, and I think you will enjoy this film, especially if you liked "Old Boy"
|
|
 See more customer reviews...
|
|
|
