It’s technically impressive, and entertaining in a cinematic bubblegum way, but, hardly ever varying its madcap tone, the film lost my attention.
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02/12/09
The Good, the Bad, the Weird (2009)
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Reviews Counted:16
Fresh:14
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7.1/10
Consensus: Whilst never taking itself too seriously, this riotous and rollicking Sergio Leone-inspired Korean Western is serious fun.
Runtime: 2 hrs 10 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
US Box Office: $0
Synopsis: Set in the 1930s Manchurian desert, where lawlessness rules and ethnic groups clash, three Korean men fatefully meet each other on a train. The Good, Do-won (JUNG Woo-sung) is a bounty hunter who... [More]
Reviews for The Good, the Bad, the Weird
1 - 18 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
It's a picture of ferocious energy and excess, consciously influenced in its plot, music and visual style by Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly as well as by the Indiana Jones movies. Over-extended, but extremely enjoyable.
02/12/09
Some fancy setpieces here and there, and gunplay just about everywhere, but none of the principals can begin to rival the sacred trio of Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef and the other one.
02/10/09
Filled with shoot-outs, knife fights, amazing stuntwork and striking colours, this breathless yarn feels completely bonkers at times.
02/10/09
Not for the fainthearted, certainly, but it has an unembarassable elan that helps it avoid the pitfalls of campness and silliness.
02/06/09
Top CriticWith a plethora of incredible stunts and gunfights, plus the inevitable Mexican stand-off, it all adds up to a fistful of fun.
02/06/09
A tangled narrative and damp-squib ending detract from an otherwise joyous Spaghetti Eastern.
02/05/09
Top CriticThis is filmmaking as rodeo ride: bruising and ultimately pointless, but thrilling as hell while it lasts.
02/05/09
Wild, crazy and packed with memorable moments, this South Korean homage to the western may not be thought-provoking or particularly deep, but it's also one of the most genuinely fun and inventive movies to hit the screen in quite some time.
02/05/09
If Sergio Leone could see The Good, the Bad, the Weird, a gleefully deranged Korean homage to his spaghetti westerns, he would probably envy the resources available to director Ji-woon Kim.
02/05/09
Top CriticThe Good The Bad The Weird is as scattershot as his second and third movies, but is well-staged, handsomely designed fun that never threatens to take itself seriously.
02/05/09
Kim Ji-woon's Sergio Leone-inspired Korean Western is riotous, stylishly directed and frequently funny but it's also at least 30 minutes too long and runs out of steam before the end.
02/05/09
It's flawed, without question. But it also has more originality and invention than any given half-dozen films.
10/30/08
It's like every favorite movie you've ever loved, and like nothing you've ever seen before.
10/29/08
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10/18/08
Top CriticIt's exciting, funny, thrilling, and as entertaining as hell - and proves, if proof be needed, that genre knows no borders.
10/13/08
Though Kim's western pastiche may be insubstantial, it's anything but a drag. It's masterfully directed, legitimately funny, and legitimately fun, thoroughly enjoyable even at an excessive 129 minutes.
09/05/08
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