*She's On Duty* movie poster

It was ages since I watched a Korean movie. Sort of miss their crude ways. So I choose She's On Duty, also by Kim Seon Ah, the Sam Soon girl, out of all the movie titles waiting for me.

Freeze!

It is an action comedy, and yes, it started off funny. In this opening scene, Detective Chun Jae-In (Kim Seon Ah), dressed in high-school uniform, volunteered to be sold to the Japanese Yakuza along with a group of young girls, so that the police could break the sex trafficking ring. But she somehow screwed up, badly.

In her next assignment, Jae-In has to go undercover as a high school student.

First day in school

The movie then tells of her getting into the bad books of the school gang and she had to fend off these small time gangsters, plus do her job as a policewoman while going through life as a student as well.

Exam time *sweat*

And there's a mysterious classmate, whom she soon developed feelings for. His movements made her suspicious of his background, though. Who is he, actually?

Is he for real?

And who implanted spy equipment in Jae-In's room? I don't think it was revealed directly, but it did look like the mysterious classmate, who lives next door, did it.

Midway through the movie, it was not that funny anymore. Gory stuff started to enter the show. It just had to be this way with Korean movies. A comedy can turn gruesome midway, just like Sex Is Zero.

And somehow, we don't know who is the good guy, who is the bad until the end. But of course it's obvious that the mob head (pun intended) is the baddest guy of all. His mob of silver hair ala Ric Flair is so 80s.

Some action to look forward to

Kim Seon Ah, of course, couldn't really pass off as a high school student, but she is acceptable, I guess, after all, we do know that movies are just "make believing" and it's quite an enjoyable watch if you don't expect her to fight like Jet Li or Jackie Chan. She is an actress first and foremost, and not a martial artiste.