AFFF log

description: South Korea, Japan, western, guns, treasure, horses, motorcycles, gangs, army cars, humor
bodycount: hundreds

(Geoffrey): (rating 9)
I found this movie mind blowing. The Western genre is not populair for quite some time. So, how to make a western movie nice? Let Asians make one in stead of Hollywood. Though the movie does not represent the South Korean culture, I believe some hints to the country struggles are mentioned here and there. Let's say this movie is a Asian remake (for a change) of the Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Add some very good stereotype figures and actors who can make it promising, do a little bit of treasure hunting (little bit of Indy vibes here and there), of course quite some gun slingering and good humor and you have a very nice western movie. I would never gave it a 9 if it was made in America, but to see that South Korea can make high quality movies like this sounds like I want to see more from that area. The camera work is done wonderfully and some settings (like Ghost Market and the train scene) are breath taking. If you are not open to Western, you probably won'ty like it very much and think it looks quite the same as the old western. But I do not feel this way. Also, I found it difficult to know in which era the movie took place. At first I thought the pre-cars era, but that does not seemed to be the case. This kind of trickery gets the movie extra points.