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.*
