Movie rating: 7/10 Neck score: A
This is one that one of my friends (the one who recommended Hero to me) has been trying to get us to see for forever. So we had a Korean night, we out to eat and then watched this. It is, indeed, hilarious. It has such subtle humor too. It is about a detective who was demoted to a traffic cop, who is known for causing problems by being to literal. He follows the book to the letter. He even gave his new chief a speeding ticket the first time he met him. That literal. He's so earnest and dry about it too. It's just like, of course I have to, that's what I'm supposed to do, etc.
So there are some bank robbers who are notorious and not caught yet. To prepare the city, the new chief decides to hold a realistic training scenario. He decides that this former detective traffic cop is the perfect person to play the role of the bank robber. I don't know if he wanted him to be that perfect, but what happened was perfectly hilarious.
I loved how serious everyone was taking it. He planned it out so thoroughly, and we get to see how it goes in his head, versus how he stages it in real life (with signs that say "dead" or "tied up") so it gets a bit psychological and hypothetical. The level of dedication in planning is just genius. The bank employees and patrons are so dedicated to playing along for the sake of the training that some super great conversations about what is hypothetically happening, and whether or not he could have been stopped at certain points happen. The hostages become his team in creating the perfect execution of this scenario, its all just too funny, and very matter-of-fact humor. It's a good one.
