The original Oldboy is one of the most ridiculously overrated films I've ever seen. Aside from being bafflingly dull, I've never understood the fanfare about the hallway fight scene. Everyone is actively trying not to hit Dae-Su, even after he makes some vicious strike and then pauses in a vulnerable position for a number of seconds. You have guys pretending to kick him while there is an open lane to his body, you have guys running into his hammer. That is how people behave when they're choreographing a fight dance or sparring with a dictator. That does not happen in a real street fight. He would have had his head caved in by a swarm of blows. And then Stoker? How incoherent and pointless a film. That PCW managed to achieve some impressive visuals doesn't compensate for enough.
Yeah, count me in the group of people who think the director of 25th Hour destroys Park Chan-Wook as a filmmaker.