The third principal remains necessarily in the shadow. But the pompous young detective needs more development, or possibly more humor or experience, to work as an anti-hero and balance the trio of baddies. As the publicity says, this is a film pitting evil against evil against evil, so expect no noble sentiments from the cop quarter. Far from playing him as a hero, Kim gives him a mad dog aura, making him scheming and ambitious and willing to stop at nothing to get what he wants. This is more than can be said for his nemesis, inspector Jung Tae-seok (Kim Moo-yeol), a whooping cowboy of a cop who brazenly abuses his badge to push his weight around. Jang is tough and strong but also vaunts a cool, calculating intelligence. The human punching bag gets a laugh and a shudder at the same time. He lands thunderous blow after blow until, at the end of his workout, his men open the bag and a bloody little fellow falls out. The most colorful and satisfying character is heavy-set boss Jang Dong-su (a scarred, tattooed Lee), introduced flexing his muscles on a punching bag.
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