Really long and very frustrating... No vengeance at all.. Just scene after scene of how the bad guys win... I suppose maybe it was that way on the real world...

an unpleasant and long movie trying to extract negative emotion from the audience. a child splattered with the mother's blood crying, she has been shot in the head, but there is no brain, after all she's a woman, right? the, by now, usual korean movie violence, but not much else. a shallow and tardily plea for regicide, comparable with the middle age European texts. a shallow understanding of life in general, but who cares when revenge stories sell?

By the end I was yelling at the screen! Shoot! Based on true events on the story of Korea, and unfortunately with similitude to Mexico in 1968, made this film so intense, it is like having six cups of coffee within six minutes, it is like failing to catch the last train home and losing it after running a mile. The movie builds up slowly and fatefully to its purpose, the acting, what can we say? It's a Korean movie, different but compelling. How much can you wish that one of the movie characters gets to die? Especially when you know is a rotten human being much like the Mexican president Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, who before the Olympics in Mexico City, ordered the soldiers to shoot on innocent people on October 2, 1968. I was wondering if ever anyone related to the massacred kids in Tlatelolco, ever fantasize on doing something like in "26 Years" , and "El paciente interno" (THE CONVICT PATIENT) (2012) seems to be the answer to the question, unfortunately I haven't seen this documentary or heard about director Alejandro Solar, but definitely I am looking forward to see his work . To anyone interested in the subject I would recommend "Rojo amanecer" Red Dawn (1990) directed by Jorge Fons, even though the movie presents the story only from "the experience" of one family living in one of the Tlatelolco Buildings. The Koreans, the Chinese in Tiananmen plaza, and many other places in the world have suffer, and lived in terrifying memories. Too bad in real life dictator Augusto Pinochet died of old age, too bad Gustavo Diaz Ordaz never was punished, and too bad Chun Doo-Hwan is still living virtually free! "26 Years" is a good movie that I would recommend to those who like to think and reflect about the past and future of any society on our messed up world.

This movie is so awesome! Should get more worldwide attention but its not because this is surely not Kim ki duk's art house. About a victim's family who want to take revenge after what happened to their family 26 years ago in Gwangju's massacre, very well constructed and so unpredictable, its a true story I guess because at their ending credit they listed a lot of name,of victim of the gwangju's massacre.Got sufficient tension, great acting, some saddy moment that make me cry and honestly I rarely cry watching movie although they say their genre are drama. If you love good thrilling movie just like the chaser, yellow sea, memories of murder, i saw the devil, and many more excellent korean thriller you will absolutely love this! If not I will punch myself in the face just like edward norton in fight club!