20 Movies Destroyed By Their Plot Holes

4. Oldboy (2013) - Leaving Everything To Chance

Spike Lee's ill-judged Oldboy remake retells the story of a man held captive for decades before embarking on a journey of revenge, but it throws out nearly everything that made it so great before. The emotion, the complexity, and worst of all, the logic. This is especially true in regards to the villain's big plan, which was demented genius in the original, but a load of plot hole-ridden bilge in the remake. 

In both versions, the antagonist locks the protagonist up for years without explanation, then sets them free just as suddenly. Both incarnations are trying to trick the protagonist into committing incest with their own daughter in order to get revenge for exposing an incestuous relationship they themselves had as a young man, but while Oldboy 2003's Lee Woo-jin used hypnosis to facilitate his sick scheme, Oldboy 2013's Adrian Pryce (Sharlto Copley) left everything to chance. 

There was no hypnosis, and when Adrian's ally led protagonist Joe (John Brolin) to his daughter, Marie (Elizabeth Olsen), there was no guarantee that the pair would hit it off. They wouldn't have even met again had Joe's friend not found Marie's card in Joe's pocket and called her, and that was wildly coincidental at best. 

To be fair to Oldboy 2013, it's not awful at first, and though it's noticeably less emotional, it could've been a perfectly watchable thriller had it told a remotely logical story. Alas, it wasn't to be, and it's no surprise Spike Lee has disowned it since.