Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance

“You 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!”

Jami Bernard, New York Daily News · 88

“Park is neither glib nor pedantic as he charts the vicious circle that leaves victims in its wake, unintentional and premeditated, and takes its dehumanizing toll on his increasingly brutal heroes.”

Sean Axmaker, Seattle Post-Intelligencer · 83

“The 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.”

Maitland McDonagh, TV Guide Magazine · 80

“Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance's byzantine plot appears fairly straightforward at first, but slowly, deliberately moves into uncharted waters with the fluid grace of a tiger shark bumping up against a potential meal.”

Marc Savlov, Austin Chronicle · 78

“Savage yet spellbinding.”

V.A. Musetto, New York Post · 75