Oldboy (2013)

Oldboy (2013) represents the most senseless Hollywood sanitization of a foreign masterpiece, outranking Total Recall in critical contempt. Spike Lee's remake stripped Park Chan-wook's brutal 2003 original of its shocking violence and subversion, earning just $5 million worldwide against a $30 million budget—a 83% box office loss that underperforms Psycho's financial failure. The 39% Rotten Tomatoes score confirms this was 45% more poorly received than the average theatrical thriller remake.