Korean: Badland Hunters Heo Myung-haeng makes his directorial debut with ), a post-apocalyptic action film released in South Korea in 2024. It is a stand-alone sequel to Concrete Utopia, which came out in 2023. In it, characters try to survive in Seoul, which was destroyed by the earthquake and is now a chaotic wasteland, three years after the events of the first movie. The only key member of the original film's crew who has returned is producer Byun Seung-min.
The original Netflix production starred Ma Dong-seok, Lee Hee-joon, Lee Jun-young, and Roh Jeong-eui. It was released on January 26, 2024.
Plot Nam-san, a ferocious wasteland hunter, and his friend Choi Ji-wan, along with other survivors, are struggling to survive in their village in a post-apocalyptic Seoul. Nam-san and Ji-wan scavenge for their community's survival in the desolate wastelands. When their villager Su-na is kidnapped by a rogue scientist, Dr. Yang Gi-su, who has been illegally experimenting with injecting humans with a certain serum to make them immortal, many teenagers have died as a result.
Gi-su had set up a network to bring more teenagers to his camp in an apartment complex because he needed more supplies for the serum. Nam-san, Ji-wan, and a military sergeant at the camp named Lee Eun-ho come across Gi-su's experiments and set out to save Su-na. It is shown that Gi-su had been trying to bring back his daughter So-yeon, who died around the same time that Seoul became a wasteland, through experiments.
Arriving at the camp, Nam-san, Ji-wan, and Eun-ho engage in combat with mutant soldiers. While Gi-su escapes with So-yeon's body in a suitcase, they manage to save Su-na. On the other hand, he is surrounded by a horde of people who are prepared to kill him. He accidentally damages the suitcase while firing at the crowd, resulting in So-yeon's death. Along with Su-na and Ji-wan, Nam-san kills Gi-su and returns to his village.
Production Planning for the film began after the production of Concrete Utopia on November 14, 2021.[9] Filming began on February 15, 2022, and finished on May 18, 2022.[10] On November 2, 2023, Netflix confirmed that the film was directed by martial arts director Heo Myung-haeng and produced by Climax Studios, with Big Punch Pictures and Nova Film as co-producers.[3] An Ji-hye, who plays special forces sergeant Eun-ho, performed
"Badland Hunters has just enough momentum to string together a series of fisticuffs and close-quarters combat that will elate any action fan," said Christopher Cross of Asynchronous Media, who gave it a rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars.
Roger Moore of Film Country reviewed the film 2.5/4 and thought, "The story is reused and nothing that ought to hold the premium of anyone who's seen a solitary dystopian zombie film", adding, "however the activity beats are top notch, the battle movement next level and the garbage talk...is top rack B-film succinct."
"Don Lee is true to form, pummeling bad guys in an adequate if unsurprising star vehicle," wrote Whang Yee Ling of The Straits Times, who gave the film a rating of three out of five stars.
Viewership Just one day after its release, from January 22 to January 28, Badland Hunters was ranked first worldwide in the Netflix movie category, with 14.3 million views, in the Global Top 10 weekly list of the most-watched Netflix TV films (non-English). From January 29 to February 4, when it received 18.1 million views, and from February 5 to 11, when it received 6.1 million views, it maintained this position.
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