With its major characters played in it performing the most exuberant, this Korean action film does drive our sensation into euphoria when the rhythm of it never tries to dull us even for a moment. ‘The Roundup’, a sequel to the 2017 action thriller ‘The Outlaws’, seems to surpass its series one’s position with a lot of entertainment with humor generated that can make us laugh not a little.

Ma Dong Seok plays a role as a heavyweight law enforcer who most of the time appears not as smart or handsome as you may like to think of him; instead, he used to appear gentle, humorous, and a little bit seemingly ponderous. Nevertheless, when you witness how he every time, with confidence and composure, makes good use of his punch to render his adversaries fly over the ceiling and across the room, you will know what he is.

The story goes that Ma accompanies his captain, played by Jeon Il-man, going to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, to extradite a criminal, who has joined a grisly kidnap with murder, back to Korea, only to find the case is going increasingly complicated, knotty, and messy, when many a wicked involved in such a crime case keeps watching the ransom with their lives at cost. Another major character is Son Suk-ku, who is a savage kind of killer who doesn’t have a dose of humanity, conscience, shame, guilt, and reason, kidnapping the son of a wealthy businessman with him acquiring the ransom and killing the victim. The father, played by Nam Mun-cheol, gets the most furious knowing that Son still kills his son after acquiring the ransom he pays, he then employs a team of mercenaries to kill him but fails. The story doesn’t end here; instead, it subsequently triggers several waves of bloody murders and slaughters claiming a dozen lives.

With a full suitcase of a ransom in one of the cars, there is one scene of cars chasing in the film that is so spectacular that it is bound to boost our adrenaline, and the heavy action of fighting performed by Ma in the film is nonetheless breathtaking. In the last scene of the fight between the good and the evil on the bus, it does tell us uprightness lasts forever and the good fears no evil because justice will help them win with pride along the way. At last, you will find you cannot but jump up to clap when you watch with agitation how Ma knocks out Sun in a fast-moving action way powerfully and relentlessly.

Money, as such, is not good or evil, but humans. The message of the movie warns us that the wages of avarice, brutality, and barbarian is death.