Good Bad and the Weird (Blu-ray)

Editor's Note Kim Jee-won (A TALE OF TWO SISTERS) directs this big-budget take on the Western genre that unites three of Korean cinema's most popular actors: Jung Woo-Sung, Lee Byung-hun, and Song Kang-ho. In the 1930s Manchurian desert, a search for a map brings together three very different men who seem to exemplify the characteristics of the title. In this Korean-language film, all of the actors--including the top-billed stars--performed their own stunts.

	Kang-ho Song
	Byung-hun Lee
	Woo-Sung Jung
	Min-suk Kim - Screenwriter
	Mogae Lee - Director of Photography
	Miky Lee - Executive Producer
	Ji-woon Kim - Screenwriter
	Young-gyu Dalparan Chang - Composer
	Jae-won Choi - Producer
	Ji-woon Kim - Producer
	Ji-woon Kim - Director

Total Film
3 stars out of 5 -- "The most expensive Korean movie ever made....lashed together with streaks of loopy black humour." 02/01/2009

Empire
"[The director] transplants Sergio Leone's enduring epic to '30s Manchuria, recasting Clint's Blondie as a laconic, rifle-toting bounty hunter..." 03/01/2009

Box Office
3 stars out of 5 -- "Kim adds in some clever allusions to varied films like THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, APOCALYPSE NOW, and GIANT. Kim's cinematic vigor never flags..." 02/23/2010

A.V. Club
"THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE WEIRD's real strength is in the way it establishes what it's going to be about right from the start....Kim's inventive action sequences develop like short films, with their own plots and props..." 04/22/2010

Los Angeles Times
"Action set pieces move from train shootout to marketplace shootout to horseback-jeep-motorcycle shootout before the inevitable three-way showdown..." 04/30/2010