Oh dear. The FT really doesn’t like Park Chan-wook’s Stoker.
“Stoker aims for enigmatic but bulleyes incoherent instead,” says Raphael Abraham, reviewing the DVD release in the Weekend edition on 6 July 2013. “Park Chan-wook constructs every shot with maximum flourish while plotlines appear fitfully and then die from neglect,” he adds, concluding that “after half an hour you’ll be bored, by the last reel you’ll be urging the killer on just to get it over with already”.
Mind you, at least he gives the release one star out of five. The review of the theatrical release by Nigel Andrews in February gave it no stars at all:
Stoker is a nightmare comeback for Nicole Kidman: art-horror, with oodles of useless style failing to fill the vacuum of its would-be spooky content. Straight-to-download is the deserved fate. Don’t hold it back by buying a ticket.
Harsh, but it’s certainly not one of Park’s best.
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