This huge new Korean movie with Ahn Kwon Tae who directed Friend and Typhoon and superstars Han Seok Gyu from Shiri and Cha Seung Weon did well at the box office, but overall was a real let down. Not much substance, and I really didn’t think the cop was any better than the criminal. Overall I was not at all impressed by this film.

Baek Seong Chan [Han Seok-Kyu (한석규)] is a hot shot police inspector, who wants to quite and help run his friends exterminator business, but when a criminal uses his name to help steal a truck filled with money that belonged to a criminal Kim Hyeon Tae [Song Yeong-chang (송영창)] that he could never prosecute, he gets back in the game to take on the criminal. Baek gets a call from his transexual informant Antonio (Lee Byeong joon) about a gold shipment coming in. The cops follow the corrupt officials and smugglers, but the 4 criminals led by Ahn Heyon Min (Cha Seung Won) outsmart them, and get the money right out from under them. So they go back to lean on Antonio, and realize he was working with the criminals, but they threatened him, so he figured out that either way they would win. The cops do manage to figure out who the 3 lower criminals are though, and through them manage to figure out Ahn, who was the Warden and who met them in prison.

REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS...

The cops are onto the criminals, but they are ahead of them.

And the big criminal Kim Hyeon Tae is also on it, and has killed the officials and smugglers who betrayed him, using a former North Korean General who he uses as a strongarm.

Ahn, sets up for his 3 compatriots to get out of the country, but he stays, because he wants revenge on Kim for what he did to his father. And Baek realizes this. Ahn goes in to get Kim, but Kim has taken his friends, so he gives up the gold, and almost gets trapped, only getting saved by Baek, and Kim himself is killed in his own trap.

Baek himself ends up taking Ahn in, who he respects for helping his friend and for getting revenge for his father. Baek has also noticed an ambulance following him, and he lets Ahn go, to get in with his friends. When Baek returns to the police, he is now a suspect, because it turns out that most of the gold was fake and Baek was tricked.

The film ends with Baek working for an exterminator, when he gets a ticket in the mail from the Bahamas, where the criminals are waiting for him to join them.

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This film really didn’t come together for me, it seemed like big names with big egos, but the story was not too impressive for me.