You think you're mad for action? That you crave chaos? That nothing can satisfy your depraved yen for bone-pulverizing fury? Well, brace yourselves, fight freaks and gore gourmands - _The Roundup: Punishment _is here to administer a barbaric bouncer's beat-down to your senses! This fourth dementedly delirious installment in the unstoppable Korean action-comedy juggernaut wasn't just the biggest blockbuster on the peninsula in 2024 - it was a runaway worldwide phenomenon! A steady IV drip of punishing fight-stravaganzas straight into the bloodstream. Once again, it's all about the unstoppable force of nature that is Don Lee's "Beast Cop" Detective Ma Seok-du. That glowering, fist-swinging human wrecking ball may be Korea's second biggest export after k-pop. Paunchy, scowling, and boarish, he's a blunt instrument making rubble of criminal scum with his bare hands. But oh, what satisfyingly feral fun he has doing it! The premise this time? An illegal online gambling ring with added murder in Manila. Not that plotting matters when the real money shots are Lee's awesomely choreographed beatdowns of sniveling tech-bro villains and their viper-smiling enforcer goons. Director Heo Myeong-haeng, a long-time Lee stunt collaborator, knows better than to let too much comedic flab get in the way of the deliriously bone-crunching action sequences. This baby's all about the buzz-saw brutality - a defiantly un-PC, fists-first exercise in cinematic masochism. Slick, pacy, and gleefully retrograde, Punishment is brain-dead ecstasy for pupil-dilating fight freaks. No amount of deconstruction or auteurist analysis will dull its dumb-bellied impact. Like Ma (AKA Don Lee) smashing a chair over some goon's skull, it reduces you to a puddle of id-raddled adrenaline and awe.