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ReviewNetflix movie review: Badland Hunters – Ma Dong-seok in post-apocalyptic action thriller full of B-movie clichés and brutal violence
- In this Korean drama, Ma Dong-seok plays a notorious hunter searching for his kidnapped surrogate daughter, played by Roh Jeong-eui
- The movie depicts South Korean capital Seoul as having been destroyed by an earthquake, with gangs roaming the wasteland looking for food and water
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2/5 stars
From the producers of Concrete Utopia, South Korea’s official submission for this year’s Academy Awards, comes an altogether different kind of beast.
A collaboration between Climax Studio and Netflix, post-apocalyptic action thriller Badland Hunters is set in a similar, but officially unconnected, rubble-strewn wilderness.
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Ma Dong-seok produces and stars as a notorious hunter who scours an apocalyptic wasteland for a girl kidnapped from his community.
The directorial debut of stunt coordinator Heo Myung-haeng, who previously worked with Ma on Train to Busan, this stripped-down bloodbath trades allegory for lashings of gratuitous violence and Mad Max-style dystopian mayhem.
Following a gigantic earthquake that levelled almost all of Seoul’s vast urban sprawl, endless droughts have transformed the countryside into an arid wasteland, plagued by marauding gangs of vicious bandits, where food and water are growing increasingly scarce.
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