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Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
2002
· Movie
· 129 min
B
MEANRANK
73/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1703
- IMDb #1096
- Rotten Tomatoes #2571
- Metacritic #1856
- Letterboxd #564
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3671
+8 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1247
- Metacritic Critics #2563
- Metacritic Audience #791
- Criticker #440
- Douban #724
- Kinopoisk #1474
- AlloCiné #1826
- Trakt #1328
Every rating
53–86
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 53, highest is Google on 86. Critics average 56, everyone else 77.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A deaf factory worker desperately needs a kidney transplant to save his dying sister. After being swindled out of his savings and his own kidney, he and his girlfriend decide to kidnap his former boss's daughter to get the money for the operation. The plan goes horribly wrong, triggering a devastating cycle of revenge and retaliation.
Details
- Director
- Park Chan-wook
- Writers
- Lee Jae-soon, Lee Jong-yong, Lee Mu-yeong, Park Chan-wook
- Studio
- CJ Entertainment, Studio Box
- Released
- 29 March 2002
- Country
- South Korea
- Language
- Korean, Korean Sign
- Runtime
- 129 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $4.0M
- Box office
- $2.0M
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Cast
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Awards
7 wins & 9 nominations total
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