The Bad Guys: Reign of Chaos

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The Bad Guys: Reign of Chaos
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Hangul
나쁜 녀석들: 더 무비
Revised Romanization Na-ppeun Nyeo-seok-deul: Deo Mu-bi
Directed bySon Yong-ho
Written bySon Yong-ho
Based on Bad Guys
by Han Jung-hoon
Produced byKim Su-jin
Yoon In-beom
Starring
CinematographyLee Jae-hyuk
Edited byShin Min-kyung
Music byMok Young-jin
Production
companies
CJ Entertainment
Bidangil Pictures
Distributed byCJ Entertainment
Release date
  • September 11, 2019 (2019-09-11)
Running time
114 minutes
CountrySouth Korea
LanguageKorean
Budget₩8.1 billion [1]
Box officeUS$22.3 million [2]

The Bad Guys: Reign of Chaos is a 2019 South Korean action film directed by Son Yong-ho and is based on the OCN drama series Bad Guys . Ma Dong-seok and Kim Sang-joong reprise their roles from the series, while Kim Ah-joong and Jang Ki-yong appear in new roles. [3]

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Plot

During an inmate transportation, several policemen are attacked and killed by assassins, where a former gangster's boss named No Sang-sik is freed. After capturing some of the prisoners, Oh Goo-tak, who is the former boss of an unusual special forces unit called "Crime Unit", is called by the head officer.

The head officer tells that Sang-Sik was about to testify the real leader of the yakuza, and tells Oh to reassemble his unit and capture them. Oh hires Woong-Cheol, a former crimefighter serving time in prison, and Yoo-Sung, a former police officer, to capture them. The duo are also promised for a reduction of their prison sentence if they manage to capture them. The unit soon manage to capture one of the prisoners named Kwak No-soon/Jessica, who later becomes a part of the unit as she has useful information which helps the team to close in one of the escaped prisoners named Kim Chang-min.

The unit manages to track Kim, but Detective Choi arrests him, thus interfering in their operation. It is revealed that Woong-cheol accepted this mission as he wants to settle a score with the gangster's boss for killing his best friend Nam Myeong-seok. After admitting Oh to the hospital due to liver cancer, The unit manages to retrieve Kim from the police station and also other prisoners, including Sang-sik. They interrogate Sang-sik and learn that the yakuza leader's real name is Yoshihara. He reveals that Yoshihara had killed Myeong-seok for protesting against his drug operations.

Sang-sik felt guilty and decided to testify against Yoshihara by listing about his operations in his diary. However, the head officer, who is revealed to be Yoshihara's mole, retrieves the diary and kills Sang-sik, where he leaves the unit to die in a fire accident, but the unit manages to escape. Choi helps the unit to trace Yoshihara's location in a factory. Along with Woong-Cheol's friend, the unit attacks the basement and defeats Yoshihara's goons. Woong-Cheol confronts Yoshihara and brutally thrashes him for Myeong-seok's death. Yoshihara and his men, along with the head officer are arrested.

Oh gets recovered from his cancer and gets encouraged by Woong-Cheol to work again. Oh arrests Yoshira's associates and the team's prison sentence are reduced, while Woong-Cheol is hired for another mission.

Cast

Cameo appearance

Production

Principal photography began on September 10, 2018 and wrapped on January 11, 2019. [4]

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