Badland Hunters Review: Netflix Shows Why Don Lee Is Koreas Most KickAss Action Hero
The great Don Lee
If you don't know anything about Lee, now is the time to get to know Korea's most famous action star. Lee made 60 films, although many of his early roles were minor. His biggest international role was as Yoon Sang Hwa, a husband who must fight zombies to protect his pregnant wife, in the game-changing hybrid horror film Busan .
The success of Busan Train led to Lee landing leading roles in action films, including playing the ailing Gilgamesh in the low-key MCU sequel Forever . But in the year In 2022, a year after Gilgamesh , Lee struck box office gold with Roundup , a hyperbolic ballistic police team drama that became South Korea's biggest box office hit of the year. He reprized his role as Detective Ma Seok Do from the 2017 film The Criminals , also known as the Crime City series, where Lee started as the detective. Ho's upcoming fourth film will once again be directed by Lee. Hugh's second directorial effort will be "Round: Punishment," which is slated to debut at the Berlin International Film Festival next month.
Don Lee is the best way to describe it. Also known as Ma Dong Sek, he has a large build, a powerful barrel, and a booming gun. Many action stars claim to be martial artists, but Lee is real. When he is not playing, he is a personal trainer for professional MMA fighters and amateur fighters. In the year He became the president of the Korea Armwrestling Federation in 2018, the same year he starred in the arm wrestling sports comedy "Champion". Li Yi is ready for action, with his hunchback, googly eyes, and gorilla-like physique. Like most action stars, his acting range is limited, but no one in the industry can sell as popular as him. When Lee punches a bad guy so hard he goes flying across the room, it's believable.
Desolate countries
Unlike Concrete Utopia, Badland Hunters makes no social commentary. No chance of getting into the Oscars. It's a post-apocalyptic live-action thriller full of mad scientists, mutant zombies, dark comedy and plenty of mind-blowing violent violence. She plays Lee Nam San, a scavenger who trades for other goods in a makeshift village that once housed a bus station.
As with many of Lee's films, he is paired with a handsome young star who serves as comic relief. In Wasteland Hunters, he teams up with fellow hunter Choi Ji Wan (Lee Joon Young). Ji Wan is an archer (South Korea loves archery and excelled at the sport in the Olympics after participating in the Games). Nam San uses a spiked sickle. In the harsh desert, two hunters protect a teenage girl named Seo Na (No Jeong Yoo) who has been kidnapped by a doctor. Joining them on the mission is Special Forces Sergeant Lee Eun-ho (Ah Ji Hye) who hopes to rescue her colleagues who have been imprisoned by Dr. Kelly. Jan and his men.
Dr. Yang is your typical mad scientist, all in a blood-stained lab coat, manually injecting a glowing green liquid into his unlucky victims. This results in death or turning into a zombie-like creature, which can only be stopped by cutting off the head. Watching Lee fight zombies is reminiscent of Train to Busan , but again, the filmmakers hope to stir things up. "Some people say there are zombies in our movie, but there really aren't any zombies," says Lee. "It shows different creatures."
