Min-sik Choi Archives

Oldboy (2003)

Rating: ★★★★

Aug 25, 2004Imprisonment and Revenge

Electrifyingly ultra-violent film from Park Chan-wook who ably borrows from Takashi Miike. The film equally becomes a conceptual twister as the protagonist is forced to go on a reality-bending quest through his own life.

Director: Park Chan-Wook

Actors: Min-sik Choi, Gang Hye-jung, Yoo Ji-Tae

Category: Horror

25 August 20048 January 2025 by Roog

I Saw the Devil (2010)

Rating: ★★

Mar 26, 2011South Korean Revenge Film

Overrated South Korean revenge thriller about a detective obsessively pursuing a serial killer that has a mild level of ultra-violence going for it but otherwise fails to grip or dig into a psychological darkness

Director: Kim Jee-woon

Actors: Byung-hun Lee, Min-sik Choi

Category: Horror

26 March 201110 April 2026 by Roog

Lucy (2014)

Rating: ★★★

Jul 27, 2014Drug Grants Enhanced Intelligence and Superpowers/Action Film

Luc Besson makes a preposterously entertaining work where drug mule Scarlett Johansson develops superhuman mental capabilities - sort of if you imagine Limitless reconceived as an action film

Director: Luc Besson

Actors: Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman, Min-sik Choi, Amr Waked, …

Category: Science Fiction

27 July 201429 June 2026 by Roog

Exhuma (2024)

Rating: ★★★½

Aug 18, 2024Korean Shamanism and Exorcism

A completely wild South Korean film set among the rituals of Confucian shamanism during the attempts to relocate a coffin and exorcise a troublesome spirit

Director: Jae-hyun Jang

Actors: Min-sik Choi, Kim Go-eun, Yoo Hae-jin, Lee Do-hyun, …

Category: Horror

18 August 202413 November 2025 by Roog