paulclaassen Yet another outstanding film from director Kim Jee-woon! An all-star cast, awesome photography, great cinematography and full-on action, adventure and excitement - what more could you possibly ask for in one movie? This action packed western is fast-paced and insanely entertaining. The music was just stunning and effectively propelled some scenes forward. The entire production was simply brilliant.Although not always realistic, this is the most fun I've ever had with a movie. Some of the action scenes are just jaw-dropping! Byung-Hun Lee in particular was very convincing as The Bad. It is impossible not to be entertained!

Osmosis Iron This Korean "western" is as fun and cool as it gets. A perfect blend of humor and action set in the interesting backdrop of Manchuria! Main characters are all memorable and cool, the plot is also interesting and moves along nicely. Gives the "real" westerns both "spaghetti" and "real" a run for their money! Give it a chance, you just might love it, even if you usually don't watch westerns!

cinemajesty Movie Review: "The Good, The Bad, The Weird" (2008)In this Action-Adventure import from South Korean motion picture production company CJ Entertainment, founded 1995 as CJ E&M Film Division, also-handling their international distribution, comes the knock-out of high-quality movie entertainment. Loosely adapted from Luciano Vincenzoni and Sergio Leone's screenplay from 1965/1966 for the Western-Classic "The Good, The Bad And The Ugly" starring Clint Eastwood as The Good; here in this inspired variation of Director Jee-Woon Kim, already with Hollywood approval in directing "The Last Stand" (2013) starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, accelerates fireworks in well-choreographed shoot-outs, knife as fist-fighting of protagonist-chasing parties from Japanese military to Chinese bandits with suspense-pushing story twists of three title-given characters, all up front actor Kang-ho Song, known from international hit movies "Memoirs of Murder" (2003) and "Snowpiercer" (2013), playing the tricky as shrewd character of "The Weird" with such delights that "The Good, The Bad, The Weird" becomes an amazing exotically-classic Action-Movie with great production design, packed and wrapped in World-War-II times of the Wild Far Eastern country of Manchuria, and skillful cinematography, for original-mimicking triangle stand-off in hyper-thrilling conclusion of this treasure hunt plot to be watch over and over joyfully again, just for the shear splendid execution of production under tight budgetary conditions.© 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

tcpanter This is one of my all time favourite films. I was walking around the London underground and saw the posters for this film and new it was going to be good. I have always said that Korea produces some of the greatest films to come out of the east and this film just goes to prove me right. The new setting for the classic story is perfect and I loved all the characters. The three stars all put in great performances the Good has the perfect look for a Korean Cowboy but the show is definitely stolen by Kang Ho Song. The cinematography in this film is just astounding. The action is slick and pleasing to the eye and contrasts perfectly with the humour and tone of the film. The sets are delightful and the pacing and story telling is packaged so well that I think this film will be appreciated by fans of Spaghetti westerns and Asian cinema alike.