In a world of crime, Hyun-jung (played by Kim Hye-Soo) is tough lady. She crawled herself to be the second top guy in the criminal underworld. Movie starts off strong with a lot of sex and Hyun-jung was taping the whole thing in the hopes of blackmailing who's in the videos.
Their objective to expand their criminal reach and take over businesses to make them legitimate somehow. At this conjuncture, Hyun-jung was already contemplating retirement unknown to her colleagues when the expansion is complete. Meanwhile Sang-hoon (played by Lee Sun-kyun), who's got a fatal attraction to her could not accept that she doesn't fancy him so the bitterness in him begins.
Sang-hoon had other plans for their organization and their top boss along with Hyun-jung disagrees with his vision. This led Sang-hoon to tie up with a government prosecutor, Choi (played by lee Hee-joon) to orchestrate a plan to topple gang boss Kim (played by Choi Moo-sung). Choi who was also a victim in the blackmail scam, tries his best to retrieve the scandalous movie from Hyun-jung.
The movie then goes into hypermode with Hyun-jung trying to evade the clutches of Sang-hoon and Choi. Near the end, it was then discovered that Gang Boss Kim's son, is actually Hyun-jung's son as well. So expect some surprise on the son at the end of the movie.
Honestly, we can't make sense about this movie except that it showed a mother's love. That's it. Although it was shown near the end of movie, this is the thing that endeared to us. This movie is an slow burning ember, and we don't know why some peeps consider this as one of the best movies to date in Korea. It's like a Kill Bill movie plot but only slower.
We can't blame Kim Hye-soo for this as we deemed she was great as the lead here. Even Lee Sun-Kyun whom we see as the lead in Korean TV drama's whom we adored, playing a villain was a stretch for us. It took us a while to accept that he is that SOB character here. We see him a lovable actor then here we are trying to hate him in this movie. He did pull off nicely as a villain here but maybe a few more films in this character might do the trick for him.
We can say the same thing for Lee Hee-joon as the evil prosecutor. He looks so sweet in the beginning, but the story tells it this way and then the story flipped a switched and he became a nasty corrupt government employee. We love him best here as the transition from good to bad in his performance was commendable.
If you come to know of Korean movies as being sweet and romantic, you will have a great surprise with this one. Just focus on the motherly love and some woman empowerment in the movie.
