Cast : Jeong Jae-Young, Son Byung-Ho, Lee Young-Eun
Director : Ra Hee-Chan
My rating : Laugh Out Loud
If you’re currently in need of good laugh, or looking for some smart comedy to fill your boring weekend, or if you are just a 23 year old worn-out worker with no boyfriend, no parties on weekend, no energy left to move your ass downtown on saturday night (to make it simple : no life), you might wanna watch this movie - Going By The Book. This sure will crack you up.
It’s about a traffic police Jung Do Man (Jeong Jae Young) who was chosen to act as the robber in a bank-robbery drill. Being a dedicated officer (or perhaps a talented actor) as he was, he pulled his best as a robber, and put the police force’s dignity at stake. The supposed to be ‘fun’ drill, turned out to be a whole-day drama with 8 dead victims (meaning 8 people with ‘dead’ tags on their chests)…and one raped (yeah, just the tag too).
You can feel Jang Jin’s signature in the whole movie as he was one of the scriptwriters. The witty dialogue, weird situations that led to your bursting laughters, and even Jeong Jae Young.
( Just like Pavlov’s conditional reflexes, i’ve learned to associate Jeong Jae Young to Jang Jin, as you can find him in most of Jang Jin’s works. Check Someone Special, The Big Scene, Guns and Talks, or even the migrating birds in My Son, where Jeong Jae Young dubbed the clueless father-bird) . (And yes, i’m a big fan of Jang Jin, and Jeong Jae Young. Maybe one day you can see me next to the red carpet of a movie premiere, screaming like DBSK fangirls, “Jang Jin Oppa!! I wanna have your baby!!”…just that i might be the only one who scream cos,well…unlike DBSK, Jang Jin is not “The Most Handsome Man in Asia”, and he doesn’t dance nor sing nor whatever boybands do, so perhaps not so many girls would be willing to join me fangirling a movie director…)
Anyway.
Jung Do Man was not the only character worth-notice in this movie. The negotiator with his terrible voice problem somehow had liven up the scene, especially when he paired up with Jung Do Man’s mum, who instead of asking her son to surrender~as the negotiator wished, she asked for Do Man’s seal-stamp cos she needed it to lease her house.
Do Man’s co-officers also drew laughters since the beginning. Check what this officer had to say when the chief ( the one with glasses) asked about his plan to solve the string of bank robberies happened in their city.
and a little romance won’t hurt nobody.
well maybe except for this two.
By the end of the movie (a very dramatic ending for just a training, by the way), you’d realize that you just laughed at the irony of how the cops couldn’t even take down a solo robber in their own drill.
So see, who needs a nagging boyfriend on a saturday night when you have good movies to watch?
Enjoy,
Louise (A freakin 23 year old worn-out employee, a single who chooses to be a couch potato at the end of an exhausting week)
p.s : for those who are recently busy looking for the flaws in SYP posts, yes, i do know it’s not a new movie. it’s from 2007. That’s what the number on the title for. 2007. that’s for the release year. not for the number of the cells you have in your tiny brains.
Going By The Book trailer
Poster from koreanmovie.com
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