The story’s many advances and reversals can be hard to follow at times, but this isn’t really a movie where plot is paramount. Everything boils down to the action, and what that action means.
80
Time OutDavid Fear
Time OutDavid Fear
At its best, this pomo oater gets within chaw-spitting distance of action-flick greatness; at its worst, the movie is simply unadulterated guns-and-guts fun.
70
The Hollywood Reporter
The Hollywood Reporter
A jaunty, happy-go-lucky adventure that packs a fistful of dynamite in the spectacular showdown.
70
VarietyDerek Elley
VarietyDerek Elley
East meets West meets East again, with palate-tingling results, in The Good the Bad the Weird, a kimchi Western that draws shamelessly on its spaghetti forebears but remains utterly, bracingly Korean.
The entertaining non-stop action has the potential to give the film wide cross-over appeal and cult status.
60
EmpireDan Jolin
EmpireDan Jolin
A tangled narrative and damp-squib ending detract from an otherwise joyous Spaghetti Eastern.
40
Village Voice
Village Voice
Kim's filmmaking is generally cartoonish in a bad sense, as he squanders his set pieces, flashbacks, and other attention-getting with sometimes downright wretched staging.