The ever reliable, rubber-faced Song Kang-ho plays Tae-goo, the train robber, and gives the film what little comic spark it has.
The Good, the Bad, the Weird(좋은 놈, 나쁜 놈, 이상한 놈)
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Korea · 2008
Rated R · 2h 10m
Director Kim Jee-woon
Starring Song Kang-ho, Lee Byung-hun, Jung Woo-sung, Yoon Je-moon
Genre Action, Adventure, Comedy, Western
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The story of three outlaws in 1930's Manchuria and their dealings with the Japanese army and Chinese and Russian bandits. The Good (a Bounty hunter), the Bad (a hitman), and the Weird (a thief), battle the army and the bandits in a race to uncover legendary riches in this fresh, fun kimchi western.
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A tangled narrative and damp-squib ending detract from an otherwise joyous Spaghetti Eastern.
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.
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.
Sergio Leone learns to speak Korean in The Good, the Bad, the Weird, an exuberant tale of greed, vengeance and, well, weirdness.
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.
The Good, the Bad, the Weird may owe a lot to other films, but it is always fresh and never boring.
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