Korean Movie Night: The Unjust 부당거래 (2010) Korean

Hwang Jung Min, Ryoo Seung Bum, Yu Hae Jin, Ma Dong Seok, Cheon Ho Jin

Movie rating: 7/10      Neck score: A

I'll admit, I 100% watched this because of Hwang Jung Min and Ryoo Seung Bum.  Also a little bit for the premise.  I like twisted, gritty crime movies.  I'm not sure that by little brother liked it as much as me, but he didn't hate it either.  It's hard to like it 100% though, because it's about a bunch of bad guys.  Literally.  We have a cop who is coerced into being corrupt, part blackmail and part promise of promotion, who joins forces with a gangster, and a prosecutor who is all about bribes and saving face.  Their paths get twisted as the prosecutor accepts bribes from the business man the cop was trying to catch.  The cop, who is always passed up for promotions because he is not a police academy graduate, is offered a promotion deal if he frames someone for an unsolved serial murder case to make the police look good.  He does so with the help of a gangster, who is a direct rival of the bribing business man.  The prosecutor is on the case of the framed man, but with the meddling gangster getting after the briber, it turns into a messy power play.  The cop gets into more dirty water than he can handle, and we end up not knowing who to root for, if anyone.  The cop was being blackmailed to do it, but he ended up doing some pretty bad stuff, while the prosecutor only accepted bribes and let people go (which is bad enough), but was wholly unrepentant and selfish about it.  It it literally about a bunch of really unjust law people.  It has some harsh language and some violence, but really it wasn't too bad.  I guess the language might push it to a harsher rating, but I'm glad I'm not in charge of deciding that.  It was a good movie, but not one that leaves you feeling happy or even satisfied.  Maybe a little pissed or disgusted though.

54. Good Doctor 굿 닥터 (2013) Korean

Moon Chae Won, Joo Won, Joo Sang Wook, Kim Min Seo, Cheon Ho Jin

Drama Rating: 5/10     Neck Score: A

I know a lot of people had a hard time finishing this one.  Some because it was too intense because it was about an autistic pediatric surgeon who is being used for hospital politics crap, some because having an autistic man, who acts more like an eight year old sometimes, as the romantic lead was too much for them.  I know that for me watching kids who were sick, dying, or needing surgery was hard.  But it got much better once you get passed episode 6.  Medical dramas are not my favorite, but this one wasn't too bad.  I thought Joo Won did an amazing job of acting autistic, and personally I liked the Joo Won/Moon Chae Won couple.  They were both so awkward in different ways.  Once again, Moon Chae Won is great.  She was so crude and awkward in this one, such a different character from The Princess's Man.  Yep, one of my faves.  I did like how there were really no love triangles, they toyed with the idea, but nothing annoying or anything.