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Few people would ever accuse Park Chan-wook’s Oldboy of being subtle cinema, but Spike Lee’s remake of the 2003 feature smashes any lingering vestiges of the restrained right into the ground with a bloody, looming hammer. Strangely enough, the opening credits of Oldboy provide some insight into the feature itself – this is “a Spike Lee film,” not “a Spike Lee joint,” and it’s “based on the Korean film,” not “based on Park Chan-wook’s film” or “based on Garon Tsuchiya’s manga.” This is not a unique feature and even its own director isn’t interested in putting his signature touch on it.
As with Chan-wook’s film, Oldboy centers on a seemingly regular man who is abducted, thrown into a prison-like hotel room for two decades, and framed for the heinous murder of his ex-wife. Josh Brolin is effective enough in the role, and he’s got the fiery anger and unswerving drive element of his character down pat. Emotions not fueled by rage and revenge aren’t quite his forte, at least here, but those don’t really come into play into further down the line. For the first act of the film, he’s just about perfect. Brolin’s Joe Doucett is a flabby, drunk loser who thinks that a smooth-talking attitude will help him succeed at work (it won’t) and just yelling about things to his beleaguered ex-wife will get her to shut up (it also won’t). He’s unsympathetic, but he certainly doesn’t deserve his punishment (or, well, does he?).
Once Brolin is tossed into his hotel cell, the film picks up significant momentum, and Oldboy impress when it comes to the sequences used to portray Joe’s imprisonment. While Lee utilizes some familiar bits from the original film, the entire thing is so engrossing and engaging that any recognizability is soon forgotten. Brolin cycles through a believable series of emotions and actions, from depression to anger and back and forth and back and forth, until finally springing into something that resembles action. Current events flip by on his television screen – Bill Clinton’s election, 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, Barack Obama’s election, and still more – and the crushing weight of two decades in one room steadily adds up.
Yet, when Joe is finally released, Brolin hasn’t appeared to age much. He actually looks better than before – buffer and with a more suitable haircut and a simmering rage that sort of works for him. It’s a minor quibble, but it showcases some of the shoddiest elements of the film and a continued lack of quality that keeps Oldboy from achieving anything close to craftsmanship. He’s been imprisoned for twenty years. Give him some gray hair. Something. Anything.
Let loose, Joe is taunted by threats against the life of his still-living daughter, who he has observed growing up by way of a cheapy television series that chronicles crushing true crime. Tasked with discovering the identity and reasoning of his captor, Joe sets out on a quest that he thinks will lead to redemption, but which has far more nefarious consequences in store for him. Along the way, he’s joined by his old pal Chucky (Michael Imperioli) and an alluring young new friend, the softhearted Marie (Elizabeth Olsen), who just so happens to be one of the first people he encounters when he’s released from his prison. See more at: http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/reviews/oldboy-review-spike-lee.php#sthash.JfOgeLUp.dpuf
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