Le Bon, la Brute et le Cinglé
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Jee-woon KimActeurs·trices:
Byeong-heon Lee, Kang-ho Song, Woo-seong Jeong, Cheong-ah Lee, Ji-won Uhm, Dong-seok Ma, Jin-woo Park, Do-won Gwak, Kwang-soo Lee, Seong-min Lee (plus)Résumés(1)
Les années 30 en Mandchourie. Le Cinglé vole une carte aux trésors à un haut dignitaire japonais. La Brute, tueur à gages réputé, est payé pour récupérer cette carte. Le Bon veut retrouver le détenteur de la carte pour empocher la prime. Un seul parviendra à ses fins, s'il réussit à anéantir l'armée japonaise, les voyous chinois, les gangsters coréens... et ses deux adversaires. (texte officiel du distributeur)
(plus)Critiques (2)
Infantile, over-combined but entertaining (even so). The greatest shame is that none of the central trio puts even a hint of the charisma or even interest into their character. One look from Tuco and these three would shoot out with each other over the immense honor of licking his dirty feet and then stepping up to Blondie standing next to him to polish up his dusty boots.
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A Korean western (a great idea to set it in 1940s Manchuria), probably the only one of its kind, a jolly addition to the genre. Shoot-outs, tight fights and ideas galore, where the only problem is in the length. The introduction is too long-winded, if it weren’t for Jee-woon Kim’s director’s tricks up his sleeve, it would have been a bit boring. As the end approaches, the more Japanese army and an Indiana Jones veneer start encroaching on this western. Mainly during the chase in the desert toward the end. The trio of main protagonists is interesting, basically I didn’t have a favorite during the final shoot-out and the slight twist at the end was very welcome. Dig.
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