Oldboy: Directed by Spike Lee. With Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Olsen, Sharlto Copley, Samuel L. Jackson. Obsessed with vengeance, a man sets out to find out why he was kidnapped and locked into solitary confinement for twenty years without reason.

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Iconic director Spike Lee's "Oldboy" is as a handsomely shot piece of genre entertainment, but it fails in its attempt to define itself, resulting into a completely pointless, watered-down underwhelming thriller.

This weekend, Spike Lee plays the remake game with his version of Oldboy. Based on the cult favorite by director Park Chan-wook, the film follows a man named Joe Doucett ( Josh Brolin ), who seeks revenge after being kidnapped and imprisoned for twenty years for …

In the three years since, Lee has released a 2013 remake of Oldboy, last year's Da Sweet Blood of Jesus, and, as of this week, the powerful mess of a film Chi-Raq. We've updated this list to include those recent offerings from this true Hollywood original.

Spike Lee's role as a documentarian has expanded over the years, highlighted by his participation in Lumière and Company (1995), the Oscar-nominated 4 Little Girls (1997), to his Peabody Award-winning biographical adaptation of Black Panther leader in A Huey P. Newton Story (2001), through his 2005 Emmy Award-winning examination of post ...

In an open letter pleading with Lee to intervene, he said the unnamed agency involved made an "insultingly low offer" when it decided to use the designs, and continued to use them when he declined their offer.

Suitably grim and bloody yet disappointingly safe and shallow, Spike Lee's Oldboy remake neither surpasses the original nor adds anything new to its impressive legacy.

But the pressure is on Lee to match the genius and squirmy thrills of the Park Chan-Wook original, about a man who is freed from fifteen years of captivity and has five days to figure out how he was captured, who did it and why.

A couple of days ago, a graphic designer by the name of Juan Luis Garcia posted - as a last resort - an open letter to Oldboy remake director Spike Lee. Garcia argued that he'd been commissioned by an advertising agency working on the new film to …