What bothers me the most about this particular remake is that it doesn’t improve or add anything new to the original film. It has all the same ingredients but lacks the flavor of the 2003 version. Josh Brolin is a great actor, but his version of the character lacks the extreme anxiety and fragility of the Korean version. He is too calm and collected and just doesn’t make youlike you are experiencing the events of the film through him. It’s just…bland. Though he isn’t terrible by any means, there is just no passion behind the performance. Samuel L. Jackson, another outstanding actor in his own right, is under-utilized as Chaney, the owner of the facility that imprisons Joe. His character could have been interesting, but they don’t develop him at all and he ends up being a silly and superfluous addition to the story.