The Good, the Bad, the Weird
In the desert wilderness in 1939, Park Chang-yi The Bad is hired to steal a treasure map from a Japanese offical traveling by train. Meanwhile, Yoon Tea-goo the Weird, who is a master thief, involves in the case and takes it before The Bad does. Park Do-won The Good, who is a bounty hunter, has a mission of stopping them and saving the treasure map. Involving in the chase are the Japanese Army and the Chinese bandits.
25 October 1984, South Korea
16 October 1964, South Korea
12 July 1970, Seoul, South Korea
4 March 1986, South Korea
2 April 1958, Gyeongsangnam-do, Chinhae, South Korea
September 04, 2010
... a madcap chase for a treasure map filled with double crosses, crazy escapes and lots of black humor.
May 13, 2010
Thrill-seekers, rejoice. Here's the summer blockbuster you've been waiting for -- no, dreaming of. The Good, the Bad, the Weird is to Hollywood's puny efforts what the Large Hadron Collider is to a Hula Hoop.
May 06, 2010
A giddy mashup of Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns and Lucas and Spielberg's Indiana Jones romps, this guns-a-blazing wide-screen Korean hit offers a nuttily staged, beautifully filmed, but kind of brainless homage to old-school Hollywood.
August 18, 2010
This film was a total blast from start to finish! It's more than Good, has little that is Bad, and is filled with the Weird.
June 08, 2016
It isn't the film's style-over-substance approach that prevents it from being as engaging and entertaining as it desires; it's the lack of cohesiveness and discernible rhythm.
August 06, 2010
Imagine the sparseness of classic oaters matched with the energy of martial arts movies and you've got what Kim Jee-won has wrought.
May 07, 2010
With a nod and a wink to Sergio Leone, South Korean filmmaker Kim Jee-woon delivers a slam-bang western set in Manchuria after the Japanese invasion in 1931.
March 24, 2011
The most amazing silliness I've seen in ages.
July 24, 2010
'The Good, the Bad, the Weird' offers a bizarre but intoxicating synthesis of silliness and awe.
May 06, 2010
If you're going to attempt an ambitious action epic, you'd better have the directorial chops to pull it off. Kim clearly doesn't.
August 06, 2010
This is an object example of every dollar being on the screen.
May 07, 2010
Kimchi Westerns, anyone?
