Dover gets himself locked in a backyard bunker by the kidnapper, with his only hope of survival being the tenacious Detective Loki (Jake Gyllenhaal). What wasn't expected was Staff Sergeant Dignam (Mark Wahlberg) showing up right at the final moment after all the dust has settled to put a bullet in Sullivan's temple.ĭenis Villeneuve's abduction thriller Prisoners follows desperate dad Keller Dover (Hugh Jackman) as he hunts his daughter's kidnapper, though while he finally succeeds in solving the mystery of her disappearance, the audience is left with a huge unanswered question of their own. After finally exposing Sullivan and slapping the cuffs on him, Costigan is shot in the head by another of Costello's moles, though this level of violence (while still shocking) has come to be expected from Scorsese. Billy Costigan (Leonardo DiCaprio) spent time in prison on a fake assault charge to make his cover more believable, though it didn't do him much good in the end. The veteran gangster relies on a his police mole Colin Sullivan (Matt Damon) to stay ahead of the game, though he doesn't realize he also has a double agent in his ranks. Oh Dae-su and the young woman are actually father and daughter, which Oh's tormentor takes great pleasure in revealing.Ī loose remake of 2002 Hong Kong crime thriller Infernal Affairs, Martin Scorsese's Best Picture winner The Departed moves the action out of Asia and brings it to Boston, home of notorious Irish mob boss Whitey Bulger-the inspiration behind Jack Nicholson's character, Frank Costello. The woman and Oh Dae-su fall for each other and begin a sexual relationship, though unbeknownst to the pair this is all part of the captor's grand plan. When he's randomly released 15 years later, he aims to track down his captor with the help of a young female sushi chef who takes him in after his ordeal. The film follows a drunk named Oh Dae-su who's framed for the murder of his wife and imprisoned in an iron-doored hotel room by an unknown man.
While both drew praise from critics (the latter has an impressive 95 percent Certified Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes) most reviewers agreed that Park's best work was done domestically, and the jewel in his Korean filmography is undoubtedly Oldboy. South Korean director Park Chan-wook made inroads in Hollywood in 2013 after helming two English-language films, the psychological drama Stoker and the Chris Evans-led sci-fi thriller Snowpiercer.
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