The Bad Guys: Reign of Chaos

After a prison transport is attacked and some of the country's most dangerous criminals escape, the police turn to a covert unit that fights crime using convicted offenders rather than ordinary officers. The unit's chief, Oh Gu-tak, reassembles a team that includes a former gangster, a wrongly imprisoned policeman and a skilled con artist, and their pursuit of the fugitives soon reveals that far more is at stake than simply catching the escapees.

The Bad Guys: Reign of Chaos is a 2019 Korean action and crime film directed by Son Yong-ho from a screenplay by Han Jung-hoon, continuing a story that began on television. Ma Dong-seok plays Park Woong-chul, with Kim Sang-joong as Oh Gu-tak, Kim A-joong as Kwak No-soon, Jang Ki-yong as Ko Yoo-sung, Park Hyo-joon and Kim In-woo among a credited cast of 34. Son's film is a big-screen expansion of the material rather than a standalone story, built around the same ensemble of criminals pressed into police service.

At 114 minutes, the film drew modest but distinct responses: on IMDb it holds 6.2/10 from 2,115 votes, while on TMDB it stands at 7/10 from 174 votes, so the smaller TMDB group rates it more warmly than the larger IMDb sample. Both figures suggest a genre audience that found the film serviceable rather than exceptional.