I’m usually not into Westerns, but with this movie having a Korean take on it – I thought it won’t be too bad and decided I’d give it a go. I wasn’t disappointed..
The Good, The Bad, The Weird is set in the desert wilderness of 1930s Manchuria and follows 3 main characters consisting of The Bad, who is a bandit/hitman played by Lee Byung-hun. He is hired to acquire a treasure map from a Japanese official traveling by train. Before he gets the map, The Weird who is a thief, played by Song Kang-ho manages to steal it, but then is caught up in The Bad’s derailment of the train.
The Good who is a bounty hunter, played by Jung Woo-sung now appears on the scene to claim the bounty on The Bad’s head. The Weird manages to elude The Good and The Bad where he flees to the Ghost Market. In the Ghost Market he aims to uncover the map’s secrets and recover what he believes is gold and riches buried by the Qing Dynasty. As the story unfolds, the battle for the map escalates and The Good, The Bad, The Weird all meet.
The movie is quite long, but filled with enough black humour, silliness and action to keep you entertained.
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