The Good, the Bad, the Weird (2010)

The plot in The Good, the Bad, the Weird has to do with a treasure map. Everyone wants to get their hands on it, including every bandit in the land as well as the Japanese army. But the "weird" (the great Song Kang-ho, wearing a hat with earflaps) has got it, accidentally obtained in a train robbery, just before the "bad" (Lee Byung-hun) could grab it. The "good" (Jung Woo-sung) teams up with the "weird" for a bit, and there are lots of shootouts, chases and escapes. It all comes down to a three-way showdown, much like Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

In Kim's defense, it's not easy to do a comedy Western; the genre is not exactly in its heyday and many viewers have never even seen a real Western, so it's hard to know what to do with a funny one. And, frankly, Kim's effort is much faster and funnier than other recent attempts like Tears of the Black Tiger or Sukiyaki Western Django.