The Moving Picture Writes - Martin Heavisides

This film has seven of the top ten moments in cinema history. I'm not kidding. Your jaw will meet the floor. Mine did. I knocked stuff over I was so amazed. I'm talking about the kind of sequences Hitchcock made legend- the broken glasses moment from Strangers on a Train, the whistling from Shadow of a Doubt, Marion’s last shower and the car sucking mud pit from Psycho- well get out your list! You’ll have to add the autopsies, the elevator ride with paramedics, the masturbating neighbours, the drowning, the electrical interrogation, the engineer’s protest, the baseball bat scene… and more. Despite the powerful moments the film doesn’t add up to a singular punch like it’s successor, Oldboy. But hey, maybe you’ll think Oldboy is cheap. This isn’t cheap. It's sophisticated.

When good people are forced to do terrible things and those things go wrong and all the good people have to start taking revenge on each other until there's barely anybody alive and there's nobody to hate and nobody to feel sorry for... your poor heart is in a knot. This is not a Hollywood revenge movie where you are satisfied because the baddies got what they deserved.