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Saturday, October 29, 2016

KFilm to Miss: Enemies In-Law (2015)

Enemies In-Law (2015)


Han Chul-soo causes an accident on the freeway evading police who are after his criminal parents, but instead of fleeing, he saves Park Young-hee from burning wreckage. Young-hee is the daughter of a police officer, she and her sisters are police officers, and Chul-soo's parents are the only culprits Young-hee's father would like to catch before his retirement. Chul-soo vows to become a police officer himself, much to his parents' dismay, in order to prove himself worthy of Young-hee. What happens when Young-hee and her sisters close in on a serial killer and the killer knows it? Will the outlaws and officers have to work together to keep their family members safe?


*As exciting as the premise may sound, it is based on the tired Romeo-Juliet trope, and I actually stopped the film in the middle to go do other things because I was so bored. The thief parents had some amusing antics, tricking their way past police and guards, but it didn't make up for the lackluster plot. I also didn't like the serial killer's profile: a thieving, raping, murdering criminal, and the movie shows too much of those details. It's despicable, yet at the same time, with all the talking about it in the movie, it loses most of its shock value by the end. That subject matter should never feel commonplace, because it is horrific. I didn't like this movie, and I wouldn't recommend it.*

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