This is the stuff of nightmares, where even the good guy is bad, and as shock cinema goes, it packs a punch. full review

After a while, the sheer length and repetitiousness of the film begins to feel pornographic in the dullest sense. full review

Director Kim Jee-woon is a born filmmaker, even if this script (written by Park Hoon Jung and adapted by Kim) is unworthy of his efforts. full review

As revenge fantasy, "I Saw the Devil'' is clever. As comedy, it's sick. As moviegoing, it's tedious... full review

A thriller that makes you wish you knew how to scream "O.M.G." in Korean. full review

When it comes to bloody revenge movies, it's difficult to beat the South Koreans. full review

Even at its most chaotic, the film never loses sight of the human toll of the increasingly over-the-top events it portrays. full review

A droll Nietzschean fable that's fully aware of its lapses into absurdity. full review

Somewhere in all the blood (sickening realism is a selling point), a question is posed: When does the one fighting a monster become a monster himself? full review

Never good with nuance, Kim is a beast with disarming imagery (like the severed head that turns face-up in a river current) but has few resonating ideas, leaving the domino-tumble of brutality to become its own tiresome spectacle. full review

On any number of levels, Devil is troublesome at best, offensive at worst. full review