unnecessary remake, skip it, especially if you seen the original

Wow, they truly did fuck this up. This is not only worse than the original in every conceivable way, but it's just plain bad. All the subtlety, uniqueness, and creativity on display in the original is nowhere to be found here. The action is considerably worse, the dialogue is awful, and the villain is horrendously laughable and dumbed down. Even the acting in this version sucks. Josh Brolin plays a character who is much different from Oh Dae-Su in the original, and neither his performance nor his character inspire all that much sympathy for what we see him going through. If you haven't seen the original, then I could see you having an okay time with this, simply due to the 'what the fuck' nature of certain reveals and twists. But as a film, it's not good, and as a remake, it's an atrocious bastardisation of Park Chan-wook's masterpiece from 2003. Do yourself a favour and watch the original. Don't sully your soul with this trash.

This movie was really something. This type of revenge should teach a lot of bullies in schools a valuable lesson. I have to say, I really enjoyed this one, I didn't expect that ending at all.

Good lord, people are such haters. You'd think by a lot of the reviews here this movie wasn't good. In fact, it's a great movie. It's just like when book nerds complain the movie isn't better than the book, yeah but what's your real point? One's a movie, one's a book. In this case it's a remake of a movie that was Korean. I haven't seen the original, and I don't care to because it's just my preference that I like watching movies where I'm not reading subtitles the whole time, so I'm glad I got to see this story and this movie and couldn't give a flying fuck about the original or if it was or wasn't better than it.