The Good, the Bad, the Weird (2008)
Directed by Kim Jee-woon
The story of three Korean outlaws in 1930s 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 use a treasure map to uncover the riches of legend.
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Director Kim Jee-woon (The Good, the Bad, the Weird and A Tale of Two Sisters) pays only lip service to logic throughout, with a bad guy that shifts between gibbering loon and Hannibal-level evil genius seemingly at whim.
Kim Jee-woon, whose previous film was the Sergio Leone spoof The Good, the Bad, the Weird, doesn't so much parody genres as he beats them senseless with a stick - much the way his hero, special agent Kim Soo-hyeon (Lee Byung-hun), does to those who piss him off.
Director Kim Ji-woon has made a career of making off-beat films of great style and tremendous individuality (A Tale of Two Sisters {2003}, The Good, the Bad, the Weird {2008}).
Kim, who continues to explore all avenues of expression, leaves the J-horror (The Tale of Two Sisters) and action spaghetti westerns (The Good, The Bad, The Weird) behind to create a complicated, compelling look at how two men mismanage their unholy animalistic urges.
Director Kim Jee-woon (A Tale of Two Sisters, The Good, the Bad, the Weird ) does well with his cast: Choi was the grizzled star of Oldboy , brutal and dangerous, and Lee is the dashing, handsome star of The Good, the Bad, the Weird.
Enter Park’s countryman Kim Ji-woon, a gifted genre alchemist who fused J-horror style with florid melodrama in 2003’s A Tale Of Two Sisters and Eastern-ized the spaghetti Western with 2008’s The Good, The Bad, The Weird.