The conclusion to Chan-wook Park''s revenge trilogy, "Lady Vengeance" is an elegant opera of plotting and revenge. Unfortunately,
it''s also boring and utterly confusing.
As a huge fan of "Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance" and "Oldboy," Park''s extremely dark and violent films about people who find themselves driven over the edge to the point where they become obsessive monsters, I had huge expectations for "Lady Vengeance." Park is a master of storytelling and is able to balance complex stories with violence and a little bit of gore, but "Lady Vengeance" loses that balance and the house of cards comes tumbling down.
"Lady Vengeance" is about a woman named Lee Geum-Ja, who at the age of 19 went to prison for the murder and abduction of a 5-year old boy. She admitted to the crime, but the act was actually performed by a man named Mr. Baek. Upon release from prison, she uses the help of her former prison mates to track down Baek and make him pay for what he did.