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Main character of the film is a Joe Doucett - a promotional staff. Joe was abducted and detained in a closed room for 20 years. When he is let out, he decides to seek those who is behind the terrible kidnapping and discovers unexpected secrets…
Lee takes his time crafting fiery characters and an impenetrable, who-and-why mystery only to rush through a series of arbitrary clues and explanations.
Much of the dialogue is stilted (several scene are laughable) and the melodrama feels unmoored without the lurid, baroque atmosphere of Park's film -- which, after all, was kind of the whole point.
Compared directly, the difference between both films are more than a little disappointing, but with all of that said, 2013's Oldboy still has pleasures to be witnessed.