Jambok-geunmu (2005)

User Rating:

6.1/10   

Director:

Kwang-chun Park

Writers:

Yong-ki Jeong (writer)
Won-jae Lee (writer)

Release Date:

17 March 2005 (South Korea)

Genre:

Comedy | Crime | Romance

Plot:

The film deals with a boisterous undercover female cop who gets sent to an all-girl's school in order...

Plot Keywords:

Female Cop | Crooked Cop | Sexual Repression | Undercover Cop

Cast

Seon-a Kim	...	Chun Jae-in
Yu Kong	...	No-young
Sang-mi Nam	...	Seung-hee
Jung-woo Ha	...	Detective Cho
Sang-Myeon Park	...	Class teacher
Ju-hyeon No	...	Detective Chun
Kap-su Kim	...	Cha Young-jae
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Bul-am Choi
Su-a Hong
Ji-woo Kim
Sang-ho Kim	...	Detective Kang
Beom-su Lee	...	Detective working on maths exam
Sa-Pi Lee
Ya-mi Lee
Kwang-rok Oh	...	Bae Doo-sang

Also Known As:

She's on Duty (International: English title)

Runtime:

South Korea:111 min

Country:

South Korea

Language:

Korean

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

UK:15 | South Korea:15 | Singapore:PG

Filming Locations:

South Korea

Company:

Kcinema

Personally loved it because of Kim Sun Ah, but the movie itself is not good

Personally, I enjoyed this movie immensely because Kim Sun Ah (main actress) plays a character very similar to the character she recently played in an outstanding TV Drama/Comedy "My Name is Kim Sam Soon". I watched this movie about two weeks after the series MNIKSS had ended, and personally, the movie was very special.

The movie itself, however, is full of clichés from both Korean and American action comedy films. The storyline is too weak, some parts of the movie had definitive plot holes, and... there really wasn't anything impressive about it.

Kim Sun Ah once again manages to portray a very unique and lovable character (though how she pulled that off is still a mystery to me, considering the average~weak script that she was given), and Nam Sang Mi also plays her role very well. Kong Yu I was not convinced, and to put it simply, there were way too many actors/actresses playing comical, cartoon-like characters (the bullies, the gang boss, the gang members, Jae-In's friends, the teacher, the detective (Jae-In's partner) and, at times, even Jae-In (Kim Sun Ah's character) herself) This is a good movie to burn time on, because it is certainly funny. Perhaps I'm being too harsh on a movie that only wants to be a laugh-off action comedy. It achieves what it wants to achieve, and in that respect, She's On Duty is a great film. But using a more generalized criteria...

5/10