Monday, November 30, 2015

Review on K-movie Veteran 베테랑.

I managed to catch some sleep and even watch this new K-movie released this year on the airplane on my way back from KL to Melbourne. Well the pleasure of sitting in business class seat is never ending. I was treated to lots of food and desserts while watching this movie at my seat. OK let's get to it what's this movie about as it hit the record of 3rd all-time highest grossing film in Korean cinemas with over 13 million people watching it. 



Veteran movie is about Detective Do Chul (played by Hwang Jung Min) is a straight foward and hardworking person in the work force. He worked his butt off battling crimes and solving them. That is until he meets the 3rd generation chaebol Jo Tae Oh (played by Yoo Ah In). Jo's family owns SJ Group and is super rich but within the family doors there are plenty of feud between the family members. Tae Oh is always feeling inferior with his half sisters as he is the 2nd wife's son. His father Chairman Jo is sick but is still strict as ever. 


One day Do Chul's best friend who is a driver Bae (played by Jung Woong In) was innocently killed in staged up accident, he feels suspicious about the surrounding and the closing of the case. He starts to investigate and finds out that Jo Tae Oh and MD Choi (played by Yoo Hae Jin) are behind the murder. Driver Bae wanted to solve the grudge and payments from Chief Jeon but ended up in fights and his little witnessed the entire incident. The little boy told Do Chul how his dad got involved so he went to hassle Tae Oh at the company. MD Choi finds all ways to cover up and Tae Oh always get away from the mess. It's all about money and big connections since he's rich. 

Being spoilt as ever, Tae Oh gets whatever he wants. He is mean and cold towards those who don't follow his orders. When he gets super angry, he lashes out his anger at anyone by hitting them badly.

One day the so-called actress, Da Hye (played by Yoo In Young) whom Tae Oh has bullied numerously is pregnant and decided to tell him the truth. He was ruthless and decided to abort the unborn baby. He was trying to escape from the mess he has done. Chairman Jo asked MD Choi to take over the blame and surrender to the cops. Do Chul was angry and shouted at MD Choi for being silly to take everything to himself. Not giving up easily, Do Chul pursues on Tae Oh on the day before he leaves for Singapore. The two were literally fighting on the streets after their cars crashed on the public area. Do Chul managed to get the public filmed them on their phone cameras that Tae Oh actually assaulted a policeman.
So at the end Tae Oh was put behind bars together with MD Choi. Even with that amount of money, there was nothing they could do.

To be honest, Yoo Ah In has did his role pretty well. Stuck up and a pain the butt as usual. He definitely fits those bratty roles as usual. Now that I've seen him everywhere in films and dramas since he also finished filming Sado and currently Six Flying Dragons (drama), he's definitely a rising star.

Thumbs up for this movie! 





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