It wasn’t bad but to be honest I didn’t like it all that much, it should have had more of them together; like this it was just a spy story, sort of. Not bad, no, but not something that leaves a mark or I’d like to watch again.
Plot in details:
Kang Mi-seon is a fierce cop, tough and determined. Her team call her Crocodile because they say she has 90% of success. Her husband is Park Kang-moo who is very attentive and caring, does the housework and worries for her health, because she doesn’t and she works too much; cop Lee calls him her wife because when they go to her house to celebrate solving a case he takes care of everything.
She is very tough and grumpy, so even if she knows she’s lucky to have such a good husband, she also sort of looks down on him.
What she doesn’t know is that in the past, in the life he left behind, he was a secret agent.
The story now follows two separate lines, which stay separate for almost the entirety of the film, too long in my opinion, they come together only towards the end so that they can fight together, it should have happened earlier
Mi-seon : their next case is a shooting, but the woman didn’t die because she was wearing a bulletproof vest. This Baek Seon-u is in a coma for a while. Her cops see her husband talking to Hee-ju and in their mind it appears a clear affair, and they talk about it where she can hear them. They keep seeing them together, even going into a hotel together. Cop Lee is sure that he loves her, but the evidence is also clear to them… so she clones his cell phone to spy on him. When the girl wakes up she tells them of how they used the account to try and get General Park to come out in the open. Mi-seon sees in a video the ‘mistress’ face among her suspects. She also learns Jung-san’s address so she goes there to investigate, and right in time to fight Park’s men come to get the usb key with the account. Mi-seon destroys the usb after sending it to Kang-moo’s phone, so she’s taken prisoner.
Kang-moo: he meets Hee-ju after a long time, and she says she’s married to Jung-san but he’s now disappeared. They both worked with him as secret agents once. It’s been six years since their last mission together, I think he was the team leader, and worried there might be a spy among them. The mission didn’t go well and it also was an unauthorized mission, so he’s out.
He thinks men were after her, that enemies took Jung-san and wants to help her. She says her house isn’t safe so she lives at Jung-san’s safe house. They are contacted by a mysterious man and meet him at a hotel, and he tells them that the Minister of Defence announced a big contract as a cover for a load of money, like 3,5 trillions of won. It’s General Park’s plan, but nobody knows Park’s identity, only the name. Jung-san put together a new team to investigate Park he’s losing all its members. Jung-san found Parrk’s account and sort of encripted it to make Park come out to retrieve it. The man tells them where Jung.san is kept prisoner and they free him; this is when we see that Hee-ju is Park, and she used this elaboratae story because she knew that once Jung-san thought himself safe he would reveal to those he trusted what he didn’t tell the enemy even under torture, Kang-mu takes Jung-san to be healed, and before he can go away Jung-san tells him to keep the account safe, and tells him where it is, and since it was all her plan and she knew where they would be, there’s a hidden microphone and she hears it all.
When the man instead of healing him tries to kill him, Jung-san knocks him out and calls Kang-mu to learn more, and tells him Hee-ju is not his wife, she disappeared at the same time Kang-mu was dispensed with. Unfortunately he’s killed because the guy didn’t stay knocked out for long and shot him. A car crashes into Kang-mu’s car.
At this point, they tell Mi-seon they’ll kill Kang-mu so she reveals about the account and they get it from his phone while he’s still out from the crash, but then he comes to and fights them before they kill him. Mi-seon heard the order to kill him, but won’t have to live with that for long because he storms inside and when he sees her tied up of course he frees her and takes her away with him.
A very sweet scene at this point: Mi-seon asks him who he really is, and he admits that in another life he was a secret agent. She’s upset that he kept it a secret from her, that for years he kept from her such an imporant part of him. When he says he was worried how she would have reacted, she says ‘who else could understand if not me? When the world is against you, I am with you. This is marriage’ and she also tells him how stupid he was to let himself by used by that crazy woman. Now they work together to stop her. Before going into action he weakly tries to tell her that maybe she should stay behind because they’ll have to deal with mercemaries protecting Park, but of course she won’t have it, he’s not alone in his fight anymore. She helps a lot, in fact, becausse she’s a better shooter than he is, she won a silver medal for it.
Asia’s n.2.
Now there’s a bit I didn’t understand: they were looking at the computer telling Park the account was two minutes from being… what? How were they… what were they doing? Money laundry, somehow? Where was the money? How come she has a case now that supposedly contains the 3,5 trillions? Maybe it means that she herself had the money already but needed to make it look clean money to fullly enjoy it? And when the money laundry was interrupted by our couple storming in and cutting the power, she decided she’d keep the money even if it was dirty?
And how small is Korean’s money that 3,5 trillions can fit in such a small case? Google says they have a banknote of50.000 but one still needs 70 millions of them to make 3,5 trillions, or di I go wrrong somewhere? That case is fara too small and way far too ligght to contain all that physical money… or maybe I didn’t see it and it simply contains a small computer that can be used to access the money? It’d make sense of course, it’s just that when Mi-seon takes the case, the scene feels like she retrieved the money, but if it’s all digital she didn’t really, she only stopped her from having it.
Well, it doesn’t matter all that much.
Wife and husband fight fiercely side by side then dress up like two of the mercenaries so Hee-ju follows them into a car. Mi-seon gets angry when the woman insults her husband :) then Hee-ju tries to escape but Mi-seon stops her and wins.
They come out of it leaving Hee-ju alive and find lots of soldiers ready, and her cops waiting, who now also learns who Kang-mu is.
The end. Well, almost, we see that six months later they’re working together… google says it’ s a scene to wink at fans because it alludes to another of the actor’s films, but I wouldn’t know about that, and therefore I didn’t appreciate this scene at all. I would have liked to know how they’re working together now, is he an agent again and she works in his team? She wouldn’t leave being a cop, would she? Is she still a cop and he helps her with it? He wouldn’t be allowed, as a civilian…
So, this is why I didn’t enjoy the ending, and I would have appreciated if they came together sooner, with more action together.
Hwang Jung-min is Park Kang-moo
Yum Juna-ah is Kang Mi-seon
Jeon Hye-jin is Jang Hee-joo
Jung Man-sik is Lee Sang-eung (the cop I liked in Minamdang, here in a similar role)
