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Hello guys! What's up? It’s good to see you all here. In this video, I am going to share my review of 'The Roundup' a Korean action/comedy flick. So without wasting any time let's get started.  The Outlaws, a 2017 South Korean action film, was a masterful blend of brutal gang-warfare thrills and comedics, making it one of the best action films in recent years. It offered Ma Dong-seok, aka Don Lee, the perfect platform to play the police investigator whose hit-first-ask-permission-later techniques frequently produced the desired results while upsetting his superiors. It would seem only reasonable that a movie this successful may perhaps become a series; as a result, a follow-up called The Roundup was produced in 2022. The Roundup, despite having a different director (newcomer Lee Sang-yong replacing the previous edition's Kang Yoon-seong) and writing team, maintains the original's strengths. The film's hulking protagonist and his sidekicks are back. It may take them to a higher level, resulting in a guaranteed good time that has already become a hit at home theatres. After a prologue depicting the kidnapping of an affluent young Korean in Ho Chi Minh City, the action picks up in 2008, four years after the events of the first movie. Ma  , who is still a member of the Geumcheon Police Major Crimes Unit, arrives to assist his fellow cops in dealing with a nutcase with a knife who has kidnapped customers at a corner store. He stumbles into the establishment like a tank, displaying his customary lack of tactical finesse. but also quickly flattens the offender, very akin to a tank. As a sort of prize, Ma is sent to Vietnam with his alternately vain and sputtering Captain (played by Choi Gwi-hwa) for what appears to be a holiday but is actually a secret mission . It soon becomes clear that they'll extradite a Korean fugitive who seems unnaturally eager to be imprisoned at home. It turns out that the self-surrendered weasel was motivated more by fear of the terrible death that would undoubtedly await him if he remained in the vicinity of the criminal colleague he had crossed than by any real sense of regret. And that fellow criminal would be Kang (played by Seok-koo Son), an additional expat whose ring is currently kidnapping wealthy Korean tourists for ransom. Regardless of payoff, however, they’re seldom seen alive again because of their captor's horrific affection for the machete, which he almost never puts down. When the wealthy father of a recent victim refuses to hand over the promised cash, Kang follows through on his threat to exact revenge in South Korea. This results in no lack of fresh mayhem, as well as the late arrival of two major characters: The wealthy target’s desperate yet brave wife (played by Park Ji-young) and a delightfully sleazy no-good(played by Park Ji-hwa) . The Roundup does a fantastic job of giving the characters enough room to grow into their own personalities. This, together with the skillful utilisation of action, makes the movie worthwhile to see. It excels at keeping audiences engaged and anticipating what's to come as a blockbuster. This movie is a thumbs up for me! And that wraps up today's video. Thanks for watching and if you liked it, then be sure to like it and subscribe to my channel. Until next time, adios my yeonghwa chingus!