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‘The Roundup: Punishment’ Review: Beefy International Treasure Don Lee Goes Places and Punches People and What More Could We Want?
The fourth in the formulaic, disposable "The Roundup" franchise sees Don Lee's Detective Ma beat up a new bunch of bad guys and is perfect, no notes.
“ The Roundup: Punishment ” minimizes unnecessary originality, while gloriously maximizing the opportunities for Lee to crack wise, or look aggrieved and a little bored, as though he’s just remembered he needs to do laundry, all while his meaty forearms land a flurry of sledgehammer punches so rapid their recipients, often quite literally, do not know what hit them. So after adding a couple of cybercrime experts to his task force, he settles down to errands more in his wheelhouse, such as pulling gates off their hinges, laying waste to airplane first-class cabins, and making knuckly contact with a lot of soft tissue. Without these meaty sonic mnemonics of full-flesh contact, it’s possible our brains would misread the hyperfast blur of Lee’s upper body as total inaction, and fancy the split lips and livid contusions blossoming on his victim’s face were somehow happening spontaneously.
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