After begging for money for months and finally (somehow) ending up with a
bloated budget of $30,000,000 to remake a film that originally cost
$3,000,000, Spike Lee just swindled a whole lot of people to produce a
lazy remake that ended up being a total flop at the box office. There
really isn't much more to say about Spike Lee's remake of the classic
Korean film "Oldboy," other than the fact that it is a pathetic attempt
at a cash grab and the completely unnecessary "Americanization" of a
modern foreign classic. This film makes light of the dark and haunting
story of Oldboy and even makes some parts that should have been dark and
gut-wrenching unintentionally funny. The whole film feels like a
goofball attempt to remake Oldboy in terms that a western audience would
enjoy, seeing as how the original Oldboy was probably too smart for
most western audiences in the first place with its subtlety and a
visceral, unflinching script.
As much as I enjoy watching Josh Brolin
as an actor, he is barely passable in this film. Brolin barely captures
Min-Sik Choi's dark performance in the original. The supporting cast,
even with phenomenal actors like Sharlto Copley and Sam Jackson, this
film felt lifeless, boring, and an insult to Chan-Wook Park.
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