Cop Kang Sung-joo (Go Soo) has worked undercover for months to uncover
a drug ring, now though his cover is blown, a huge crate of drugs has gone
missing, two fractions within the drug ring start to fight each other,
Kang Sung-joo's best friend, boss and father figure commissioner Oh (Kang
Shin-il) is accused of having his hands in the whole thing ... and
eventually, (forged) evidence that Kang Sung-joo has actually stolen the
crate has turned up and handed over to the police.
Radio traffic reporter Sun Yu-jin (Song Ji-hyo) has absolutely nothing
to do with drugs and the drug ring as such, but somehow she gets dragged
into the proceedings when she accidently shoots a photo of one member of
the drug ring and is thought to be a police spy. Plus, somehow an
MP3-player containing evidence that proves Kang Sung-joo's innocence gets
into her hands.
Soon enough, Yu-jin finds herself on the run from both fractions of the
drug ring and realizes than Kang Sung-joo is the only man able to help her
... until he finds himself on the run from the cops and the drugring too,
that is.
And there is another thing that Yu-jin realizes: For some reason, she
has lived through the entire day once before and is able to predict the
future and even change it to a certain extent ... but she is not always
able to make sense of the events she sees in the future right away.
Eventually, the real baddie is revealed to be officer Choo (Jo
Kyeong-hun), one of Kang Sung-joo's colleagues (which is why the forged
evidence against Kang Sung-joo was quite so convincing and how
commissioner Oh could get blamed), and unfortunately, Yu-jin has a
premonition that he will shoot Kang Sung-joo and herself both ... and it
seems, all the events leading to their deaths are taking place ... and
only in the very last moment is fate changed when Kang Sung-joo's
colleague and buddy Lee (Kang Seong-jin) arrives at the scene top shoot
Choo just in time ...
A rather bland movie that fails to blend its plot (the crime story
about the drug ring) and its supernatural subplot (the girl who can
predict and alter the future) into a coherent whole. As it is, the crime
plot is way too convoluted at the beginning to in the end culminate in a
very simple solution (including the hero being saved in the nick of time
by a sort of deus-ex-machina) while the supernatural plot at one point
loses virtually all meaning to the story, which makes one wonder why it
was introduced in the first place. Plus, at the beginning of the film
there is an awfully CGI-animated carchase including crash that looks like
lifted right from a videogame and totally fails to convince - now that
doesn't help either.
Not worth your time.
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