One of the most amazing and hilarious Korean movies out there. Groundbreaking storyline backed by spectacular dialogues and uplifted by quality acting. A cop who plays a role of bank robber inorder to indentify the loopholes and improve the security and policing of the city. The movie holds you tightly and there not even a minute when you fill lost. In conclusion a spectacular movie from 2007 which I finally got to see in 2021. That's the beauty of entertainment industry as a whole. When you create and craft great stuff it crosses the so called time boundaries and enters a dimension beyond Horizon.
Going by the Book
2007 [KOREAN]
Action / Comedy
Plot summary
The chief of Sampo City Police Office, Seung-u, organizes a simulation of a bank robbery, but a by-the-book cop gets too caught up in the role playing in which the simulation doesn't go the way he had anticipated.
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April 13, 2022 at 05:12 PM
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Masterpiece
It's shocking that there isn't a bad American remake of this yet.
In an Ocean's-esque elaborate puzzle plot, an overly fastidious cop takes a fake robbery a little too far. The storytelling is brilliant, both in the script and the direction, calling out ever-prevalent bureaucratic corruption and police incompetency. It's a uniquely hilarious and engrossing take on the hostage-standoff genre that should be so much bigger than it is.
Just for fun
Well. While some wry comedies may be subjected to reviewers in need of a new pair of glasses, this reviewer was entertained by both the premise and execution of this film. One need not expect high art or brilliant script, nor production standards exceeding that needed to portray a cop with eccentric integrity faced with a challenge that questions his role in life and as an enforcer of basic values.
So, Do Man meets the new Chief of police assigned to his station in the form of a traffic pattern violator while Do Man is performing his duties as a newly demoted-to traffic cop. Upon unerringly issuing a traffic ticket to said person, Do Man finds himself in a head to head play of wills after being charged by the new chief to act as the bank-robber in a police training simulation intended to quell critics of the departments inability to stop local bank heists.
Little did the new Chief of Police foresee the conviction Do Man would duly bring to bear in order to carry out his assignment. Ooooops!
This is a comedy. The acting is par given the intrinsic cultural subtlety and the scripts plot holes with which the actors were charged to respectively portray and abide. A dead guy driving a bus is simply loose plotting, but contrived for closure. That said, the subtle plot points and the tiny but poignant romance were enough to give this film warmth and value.
Perhaps there could be an INMCDB, ha ha. Some reviewers miss the point in the endeavor to be critics and not observers.
All said, this was an enjoyable film with originality in idea, and as such can be forgiven any flaws in execution as minor.