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The Roundup (2022)

The Roundup poster
Original title
범죄도시 2
Directed by
Lee Sang-yong
Genre
action film, crime film
Country
South Korea
Runtime
1h 46m
Rated
PG
Rating
7.3 of 10 from 443 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A detective travels to Vietnam to bring back a suspect but gets drawn into a series of brutal murders of Korean tourists committed by a sadistic killer. He hunts the killer down across countries in a high-stakes investigation.

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What happens

The Roundup (Korean: 범죄도시2; RR: Beomjoedosi2) is a 2022 South Korean action crime film directed by Lee Sang-yong, starring Ma Dong-seok, Son Suk-ku, Choi Gwi-hwa, and Park Ji-hwan. It is the second installment of The Roundup series and the sequel to The Outlaws. The film was released theatrically on May 18, 2022 in IMAX format. Set 4 years after the previous film, Detective Ma Seok-do travels to Vietnam to extradite a suspect, but comes across some gruesome murders of Korean tourists by a vicious killer named Kang Hae-sung. The film became the highest performing South Korean release since the COVID-19 pandemic. It grossed $101.2 million worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing Korean film of 2022 and the third-highest-grossing Korean film of all time. A sequel The Roundup: No Way Out was released in May 2023. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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