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Oldboy<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(2013)<\/p>\n Josh Brolin is perfectly cast as Joe Doucett an outwardly menacing, but inwardly heroic figure. Elizabeth Olsen (younger sister of Mary-Kate and Ashley<\/a>) radiates charisma as Marie Sebastian.<\/p>\n Sharlto Copley was great in District 9<\/em> (2009) and I liked him in The A-Team<\/em> (2010), but\u00a0he\u2019s not menacing enough as The Stranger, and, at this point in his career, Samuel L. Jackson no longer creates characters, but does recurring impressions of\u00a0Jules Winnfield<\/a>.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n Spike Lee has made some very good films: Do the Right<\/em> Thing <\/em>(1989), Malcolm X <\/em>(1992), 4 Little Girls <\/em>(1997), and\u00a025th Hour\u00a0<\/em>(2002), but he’s out of his comfort zone here.<\/p>\n This isn’t a bad movie, but it\u2019s vastly inferior to the original<\/a>.\u00a0Chan wook’s adaptation of the Japanese manga<\/a>\u00a0was a visually astounding tale of revenge and unintended consequences.\u00a0 This remake hits the same beats, but feels listless and uninspired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Oldboy\u00a0(2013) Josh Brolin is perfectly cast as Joe Doucett an outwardly menacing, but inwardly heroic figure. Elizabeth Olsen (younger sister of Mary-Kate and Ashley) radiates charisma as Marie Sebastian. Sharlto Copley was great in District 9 (2009) and I liked him in The A-Team (2010), but\u00a0he\u2019s not menacing enough as The Stranger, and, at… Continue reading That’s not a boy, it’s a man!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[952,663,953,950],"class_list":["post-1275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-progress","tag-elizabeth-olsen","tag-remakes","tag-sharlto-copley-samuel-l-jackson","tag-spike-lee","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1275"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14855,"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions\/14855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}