The good, the bad, the whole sheBANG
The Good, The Bad, The Weird
Sometimes it's better to die than to lose.
Park Chang-Yi is Bad, a villainous hitman who gets his kicks out of making life hell for everyone. The stoic bounty hunter Good (Park Do-Won) ruthlessly hunts anything and anyone for money. And Weird (Yoon Tae-Goo) has more lives than a cat can boast. His every move is unpredictable and you can be sure he'll use fair means or foul to survive, operating from the maxim: "Life is about chasing and being chased."
In The Good, The Bad, The Weird, it's safe to say that when this nefarious triumvirate of anti-heroes find themselves in one place at one time, hell will break loose. They all have their eye on the prize - an ancient treasure map buried after the fall of the Qing Dynasty. But Good, Bad and Weird don't only have each other's double-crossing antics to contend with: the Japanese Imperial Army, the Chinese Ghost Market Gang and a ragtag assortment of badass bandits are also chasing the map.
Dubbed a 'kimchi western', Korean director Kim Jee-Woon's nod to Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns is set in the anarchic badlands of early 1930s Manchuria where many Koreans fled after the Japanese occupation of their homeland. It's chaos on the high sands in the hands of master stylist Jee-Woon that no poky home theatre system could do justice.
Screening in Long Play, don't miss your only chance to catch Jee-Woon's elaborate adventure-thriller on the big screen where all his flair for spectacle is dizzyingly amplified to full effect. Remember to breathe, trust no one and keep a close eye on the escalating death toll while Good, Bad and Weird audaciously defy the odds. And expect the bangs to be BIG.
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Published Monday, 12 October 2009
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