
In Seoul, Ryu, a deaf worker has a sister who needs a kidney transplant. He tries to donate his own kidney to his sister, but his blood type is not compatible with hers. When Ryu is fired from Ilshin Electronics, he meets illegal dealers of organs, and the criminals propose that he give them his kidney plus ten millions Won to obtain a kidney suitable for his sister. Ryu accepts the trade, but he does not have money to pay for the surgery. His anarchist revolutionary girlfrie... (Full plot summary below)
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In Seoul, Ryu, a deaf worker has a sister who needs a kidney transplant. He tries to donate his own kidney to his sister, but his blood type is not compatible with hers. When Ryu is fired from Ilshin Electronics, he meets illegal dealers of organs, and the criminals propose that he give them his kidney plus ten millions Won to obtain a kidney suitable for his sister. Ryu accepts the trade, but he does not have money to pay for the surgery. His anarchist revolutionary girlfriend Cha Young-mi convinces him to kidnap Yossun, the daughter of his former employer Park, who owns Ilshin Electronics. However, a tragedy happens, generating revenge and a series of acts of violence.
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| Cinema em CenaPablo VillaçaDo roteiro moralmente complexo aos quadros impecáveis e repletos de significado concebidos por Park, este filme revela-se uma absoluta obra-prima. |
| St. Paul Pioneer PressChris HewittThe best way to describe it is as the work of an artist -- director Chanwook Park -- who possesses both a conscience and a burning desire to use images to tell stories. |
| New York Daily NewsJami BernardYou can't look away, not only because the carnage is so masterfully photographed, but because the director sucks you into his bleak, poetic, even sensible vision of cosmic brutality. Not for the faint-hearted! |
| OffoffoffJoshua TanzerThese are visions from among the dark recesses of the mind, shoved in our faces with ruthless imagination. Even beauty. |
| Planet Sick-BoyJon PopickPark is the most exciting filmmaker to burst into my conscience in the last few years. |
| TV GuideMaitland McDonaghThe only constant in Park's brilliantly cruel world is this: No matter how badly things seem to be going, there's a twist of fate lurking around the next curve that will make them worse. |
| NewsdayGene SeymourSomehow you'd be more won over by his anti-revenge case if he didn't seem to be having such a good time making it. |
| Boston GlobeWesley MorrisThe violence in the final 45 minutes of Mr. Vengeance is tough to watch. |
| Salt Lake TribuneSean P. MeansThere's powerful drama in watching Ryu and Dong-Jin take their inevitable paths toward destruction, but not enough to mitigate the stomach-turning luridness along those paths. |
| Seattle TimesTom KeoghPromises to be a stylish, resonant plunge into the dark waters of despair and revenge but ends up amusing itself with ostentatious shocks. |