Lady Vengeance

Few are the classic movies which leaves us with scenes and images we will never forget. Sympathy for Lady Vengeance has several such. It is a movie filled with extra ordinary moments of beauty, cruelty or deep emotion. Please, please, please watch it. It is an experience out of the ordinary, both in terms of story telling style as well as the quality through-out.

This is the third film in the vengeance trilogy and the best for my money. It is visually stunning and also gritty. Revenge has never been so artistic and beatiful while being painful and dark. I won't spoil it for any future watchers, but I will say that that the story is gripping and you won't be able to look away. enjoy

Alright. Let me say this, if you are looking for a really artsy movie that is not entertaining but is unpleasant as well as disturbing this is your movie. Do not be fooled into thinking that you are in for something like Kill Bill, or a Bittersweet Life, or any "cool" violent movie. This movie isn't like them. I cannot beleive I wasted my time on it, and I would recomend that anyone who says this is a good movie or that they enjoyed this movie be institutionalized. And it isn't sophisticated or intilectual either, its like someone was like "wouldn't this be really messed up" and then the director decided to be all artsy about it, life has enough real tribulations. If you like watching movies like this, my advice to you is: move to a third world country and learn something real about life...and don't come back

Lady Vengeance, the third installment in Park Chan-Wook trilogy of vengeance is some notches below the masterpiece that was Old Boy (I have not seen the first movie, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance) but it is still a well-made film, worth seeing. In this case, as the title suggests, is a woman who seeks revenge, Lee Geum-Ja, after being held in prison for thirteen years for the murder of a child he did not commit (but was involved in the kidnapping). She was forced to confess to the murder after the murderer, a teacher called Mr. Baek, held her daughter hostage, threatening to kill her. Once in prison (after the murder being covered feverishly by the sensationalist press), she presented herself as a model prisoner, always helping her fellow inmates with a supposedly angelic demeanor. Once she finished her sentence, and she was released from prison, her personality reverted to her true self: that of a cold avenger seeking the death of Mr. Baek. To achieve that, she recruits the help of her former inmates, who owed her for her actions in prison in a variety of ways. Filmed stylishly, the movie works through a complicated scheme of flashbacks and dream sequences, though unlike Old Boy, it is clear from the start who wants revenge from whom (and Lee is so dedicated, we never doubt that she will succeed in her mission). The first hour and a half of the film is really gripping; the last twenty minutes are a complete letdown: the scenes of the parents of other children murdered by Baek discussing justice is really dreadful (as are all the scenes of Lee reuniting with her daughter, in which the film does not shy away from saccharine sentimentality). Still, I recommend this film, with reservations.

this movie popped up on my netflix as a "suggestion" and i didn't give it much thought but added it anyway. that was six months ago. i have rented it another two times since and now i'm just going to break down and buy it. i have since seen the other two installments in the revenge trilogy (in backwards order) and this is by far the most thrilling for me. the imagery and soundtrack are stellar and the story is engaging. i'm pretty picky about movies and i'm not easily impressed. this film left more than an impression