The Good, the Bad and the Bad
The trouble with KIM Ji-wun's movie is that it does look like many "genre movies directed by an ex-ad or ex-videoclip director". I'm talking about these directors who watched classic mainstream genre movies such as Once upon a time in the West, The Godfather or Pulp Fiction and thought their main quality was virtuosity, not the director's vision behind it. As a consequence, they made movies with bad twists, bad flashy stlistics and no director's vision of their own (Guy RITCHIE is a good example of this). This is basically what happens with The Good, The Bad and The Weird, KIM's tribute to western : KIM ruins the entertaining value of his East meets West(ern) movie with too flashy stylistics, too flashy editing as if he felt afraid the spectator would fall asleep without it. And his movie is ultimately the waste of such great acting talents as LEE Byeong-heon and SONG Kang-ho.
