One of the most enjoyable South Korean action movies in recent years, 2017’s “The Outlaws” was a deft mix of brutal gang-warfare thrills and Keystone Cops comedics. It provided an ideal vehicle for…
aka Don Lee as the police investigator whose hit-first-ask-permission-later methods regularly got the job done while infuriating his superiors.
After a prologue showing the abduction of a wealthy young Korean in Ho Chi Minh City, we re-encounter our ham-fisted hero in 2008, four years after the earlier film’s events. Ma Seok-do is still with the Geumcheon Police Major Crimes Unit, arriving to help his fellow officers deal with a knife-wielding nutcase who’s taken hostages at a corner store.
That would be Kang , another expat whose racket is now preying upon rich Korean travelers, kidnapping them for ransom. Regardless of payoff, however, they’re seldom seen alive again, because this sadistic, psychotic captor has a harrowing fondness for the machete that seldom leaves his hand. When the multimillionaire father of a latest victim reneges on promised loot, Kang makes good on his vow to pursue vengeance back in South Korea.
That the film generates so many laughs is all the more impressive given the punishing vigor of its violence , with excellent chase set-pieces and mano a manos that seldom let up for more than a scene or two. It’s a high-wire act the movie manages with deceptive ease, maximizing both humor and extreme harm without ever seeming callous, or even unrealistic.
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