Clearly a fan of legendary Korean filmmaker Park Chan - wook, The Gift resembles Park's own
stories of vengeance, not only for its similar twists and turns, but because of its understanding of slow, methodical vengeance, as opposed to the the usual
bloody, action - filled tales of
revenge that American audiences have grown so accustomed to, since that is what usually makes it to our theaters.
Despite people finding fault in the lack of
bloody kills, I personally enjoyed the quieter end to the
story, as it turns this one - dimensional
revenge thriller into a deeper character piece.