Oldboy
(Previously a 4On my prior account I occasionally did these for 5 star movies that I would consider either masterpieces or flawless. I'm bringing it back for the best of the best.
10 Reasons Why Oldboy is great:
1. Park Chan-Wook's perfect screenplay and direction.
2. The leading performance from Choi Min-sik perfectly balanced sympathetic, drunken asshole, and degranged.
3. The performances from Kang Hye-Jung and others are great supporting characters who provide necessary information.
4. Lee Woo-jin is one of the most hatable, yet sympathetic villains out to screen
5. The viciousness of it's intentions
6. The experimental and dizzing style of editing
7. The Hallway fight
8. Probably one of the greatest finalizes and twists out to screen.
9. Balance between seriousness and dark comedy
10. Soen of the best pacing for this kind of film