Oldboy is a film that has already been released in South Korea. It will be released in the States in 2005. The premise goes as follows:
An average man is kidnapped and imprisoned in a hotel room for 15 years without explanation. He then is released, equipped with money, a cellphone and expensive clothes. As he strives to explain his imprisonment and get his revenge, he soon finds out that not only his kidnapper has still plans for him, but that those plans will serve as the even worse finale to 15 years of imprisonment.
The premise alone is interesting to me. Based on what I've read on the web this is probably one of the most violent movies to come out of South Korea. Check out the trailer here.
Infernal Affairs was released last year by Miramax and will be remade by Martin Scorsese under the title The Departed. The movie will star Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio. I got a chance to see the original last year and it was just incredible. The premise goes as follows:
The film follows the parallel lives a cop who secretly reports to ruthless Triad crime boss; and an undercover police officer who poses as a Triad member in the crime boss's gang. These two sleeper agents live underground for a decade before a series of mistakes clues in all the wrong people as to what's going on and each mole is ordered to root out the double agent--which in both cases happens to be themselves.
Check out the trailer here.
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Cool stuff.
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