The Good, The Bad, The Weird Details

[Highly rated reviewer]

The very Good,The very Weird

Basically,anyone who adored the Sergio Leone spaghetti westerns is going to have a ball watching this.The director has taken elements from the similarly epic Leone movies 'the Good,the Bad,and the Ugly',and 'Duck you Sucker' and mixed in some Korean mayhem via 'Mad Max 2'.

This film is sometimes breathtaking-mostly in the action sequences that are some of the best I've seen in ages.The narrative veers all over the shop,but the visual flair and the superb acting of the three leads make sure that you'll stay till the end.This is homage,not pastiche and it had me wondering why someone hasn't attempted it before.There are some wonderful

set pieces involving moving trains,deserts,and lawless towns.The Korean twist to proceedings gives the film an almost mythical quality that Hollywood simply couldn't deliver

and it is this that makes this epic a must see.

An Eastern Western...

Its interesting to see all the familiar WEstern tropes transferred to China and mixed with a little Eastern martial arts. Not much in the way of plot, but some fun characters, likeable performances and good action sequences make it work. On the down side, slightly over-reliant on CGi trick shots and some of the fights are shot too frenetically. Watching in subtitles, you probably lose a little of the Chinese/Korean distinction which is quite a major point, but still very watchable.