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	Dong-seok Ma	Ma Seok-do
	Sukku Son	Kang Hae-sang
	Gwi-hwa Choi	Jeon Il-man
	Ji-hwan Park	Jang Yi-soo
	Dong-won Heo	Oh Dong-gyun
	Joon Ha	Kang Hong-seok
	Byeong-hee Yoon	Cooking Oil
	Ji-yeong Park	Kim In-sook
	Jeon Jin-Oh	Yoo Jong-hoon
	Kim Yeong-Seong	Kim Gi-baek
	Eum Moon Suk	Jang Ki-cheol
	Kim Chan-Hyung	Jang Soon-cheol
	Mitch Craig	Married Tourist
	Park Eun-Woo	Female University Student from the Supermarket
	Sang-Cheol Han	Resident
	Jeong Jae-Kwang	Kim Sang-hoon
	Ju-won Lee	Consul Park
	Kwang-Jae Park	Head of department Park
	Moon-cheol Nam	Choi Chun-baek
	Sang-Jung Kim	'I Want to Know About That' Show MC
	Sang-Kyung Han	Vietnamese subordinate detective
	Sang-Kyeong Son	Pyeonyuk gangster
	Woo-Jin Cha	Choi Yong-gi
	Woo-Yeol Han	One-eyed captain
	Yo-sep Song	Detective Tran

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Director	Sang-yong Lee
Writer	Ma Dong-seok, Min-Seong Kim, Young-jong Lee, Sang-yong Lee
Producer	Ma Dong-seok, Hong-baek Kim, Thao Nguyen, Won-seok Jang
Musician	Tae-seong Kim
Photography	Sung Lim Ju

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My quick rating - 7,2/10. Ma Dong-seok (or Don Lee for a more western name) stars in this gritty action flick from first-time Koren director Sang-yong Lee. For a debut behind the lens, it isn't going to get much better than this. The "Beast Cop" returns as this is a sequel to The Outlaws which I will admit, I haven't seen yet. Don Lee may be familiar to some from Eternals where he played the hard-hitting Gilgamesh. In this flick, he plays a South Korean detective who is sent reluctantly across borders to extradite a suspect in a murder case. But he tends to always be looking to stop crime where ever it presents itself and finds himself involved immediately after a killer who has been preying on tourists for years. The movie has a very 90s action feel with the Sylvester Stallone-type character punching his way through his adversaries making them all look weak. The mix of comedy and action is done quite well, especially considering this being a first shot. The fighting scenes are choreographed extremely well and as most Asian action flix, this one also doesn't shy away from the violence. Then again, that seems to be the norm across the board regardless of where. The whole product is a blast from start to finish and I am planning on hunting down the first one. Ever since Train to Busan I have been a fan of Lee for his impeccable balance of comedy with action and this is another fine example of being the right guy to be cast. I will say, he has a knack for picking the right flix to appear in. Definitely, one for action fans to check out.

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