New York Post by V.A. Musetto

The Good, the Bad, the Weird may owe a lot to other films, but it is always fresh and never boring.

NPR by Mark Jenkins

Sergio Leone learns to speak Korean in The Good, the Bad, the Weird, an exuberant tale of greed, vengeance and, well, weirdness.

The A.V. Club by Noel Murray

The story’s many advances and reversals can be hard to follow at times, but this isn’t really a movie where plot is paramount. Everything boils down to the action, and what that action means.

Portland Oregonian by M. E. Russell

Director Kim Ji-woon creates a funny, fast-moving pastiche of Spielberg, Woo, Leone and George Miller, but it's really a must-see for its three big action set pieces -- which go on for a million years each and become almost hallucinatory.

Time Out by David Fear

At its best, this pomo oater gets within chaw-spitting distance of action-flick greatness; at its worst, the movie is simply unadulterated guns-and-guts fun.

Austin Chronicle by Marc Savlov

Mines the traditional Western genre and infuses it with fresh, frequently hilarious life.

The Hollywood Reporter

A jaunty, happy-go-lucky adventure that packs a fistful of dynamite in the spectacular showdown.

Variety by Derek Elley

East meets West meets East again, with palate-tingling results, in The Good the Bad the Weird, a kimchi Western that draws shamelessly on its spaghetti forebears but remains utterly, bracingly Korean.

Los Angeles Times by Robert Abele

Knives, explosions and knockabout humor have been added to taste. As vigorously staged as it all is -- sometimes confusingly, occasionally with camera-torqueing flair and impressive stuntwork -- the urge to thrill grows wearisome. Were audience members to be included as a collective character as well, they'd be "The Tired."

The Hollywood Reporter by Maggie Lee

A jaunty, happy-go-lucky adventure that packs a fistful of dynamite in the spectacular showdown.

Boston Globe by Ty Burr

It’s a lot of fun before it wears you out, and it wears you out sooner than it should.

Boxoffice Magazine

The entertaining non-stop action has the potential to give the film wide cross-over appeal and cult status.

Empire by Dan Jolin

A tangled narrative and damp-squib ending detract from an otherwise joyous Spaghetti Eastern.

Village Voice

Kim's filmmaking is generally cartoonish in a bad sense, as he squanders his set pieces, flashbacks, and other attention-getting with sometimes downright wretched staging.

The New York Times

The ever reliable, rubber-faced Song Kang-ho plays Tae-goo, the train robber, and gives the film what little comic spark it has.