She's on Duty

2005 "She's a natural born fighter… back to school!"
6.2| 1h51m| en| More Info
Released: 11 November 2005 Released
Producted By: Showbox
Country: South Korea
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Official Website: http://www.lovehkfilm.com/panasia/shes_on_duty.htm
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A boisterous detective goes undercover in a high school in order to befriend the teenage daughter of a notorious gangster.

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Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews
Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.
StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.
Roman Sampson One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.
Desertman84 She's on Duty is a South Korean film about a police detective who goes undercover in a high school to befriend the daughter of an elusive gangster.It stars Kim Seon-ah, Nam Sang-mi, Gong Yoo, Kim Kap-su and Kim Sang-ho.It was written by Jeong Yong-Ki and Won-jae Lee and it was directed by Park Kwang-Chun.In the movie,Detective Chun Jae In thinks that she is about to break a huge child prostitution ring, but when she finds that she has really ruined a much higher-level undercover operation, she is embarrassed and humiliated. Despite this, an important new mission arises that requires her unique talents – i.e. her ability to dress up and convince as a school-girl. She must go undercover once again, this time in a school, under the pretense of being a new student so that she can ensure the safety of the daughter of an important Mafia witness that the police want to locate. Before long she finds her maths skills challenged, her fighting skills honed on the school bullies and her heart melted by a fellow student. It was an average film.The story is definitely far from realistic.The acting was decent.But overall,it provides great laughs and pure entertainment.Nothing more.
Laosungdao This is a light-hearted cop comedy about a young female policewoman who reluctantly goes undercover in a high school. Her assignment is to get close to the daughter of the second in command of the "Whacker", the biggest crime syndicate in Seoul. Actress Seon-a Kim is wonderful as Detective Chun Jae-in. She has the kind of plastic face and flexible body that can perfectly convey comedy in a physical way, a useful asset in a foreign language film where words and phrases often don't translate well. It's interesting to note that she is roughly ten years older than Sang-mi Nam, the actress who plays Seung-hee, the daughter of the crime boss. Sang-mi Nam was about 21 years old when the film was made, yet Seon-a Kim is totally believable as her peer. The film is a bit weak in the occasional action set pieces, and a lovely female gang member is woefully underutilized. Still, the movie, whose English title is "She's On Duty", is charming, delightful, and quite amusing. The DVD, which I picked up in New York City's Chinatown, looks great and has some decent extras: a still photo gallery, a music video, and an enjoyable video of the photo shoot for the film's posters and box art.
Meganeguard Dressed as a schoolgirl, Detective Chun Jane, surrounded by Korean prostitutes, goes undercover to stop Hammer, a member of the Korean mafia who traffics women to the yakuza. When the yakuza arrives, Jane attacks the mafia members and almost beats up every one of them on her own. However, after Hammer is caught, the yakuza turns out to be another detective who blames Jane for destroying his plan to catch the real yakuza member. Being the spunky, hot-tempered fireplug that she is, Jane does not take these words lightly and becomes quite antagonistic towards Detective Cho.Later, the heads of the police department are trying to find the location of Cha Young-jae, Bae Doo-sang's, the leader of the suspected human trafficking scandal, right hand man. Cha had been willing to testify against him, but after an attack Cha quickly fled the scene. In order to find Cha, the head of police decides that Cha's daughter Seung-hee needs to be followed because surely her father will try to contact her. Soon afterwards, after seeing Jane still dressed in her school uniform, the head decides that Jane will attend the school as a student and keep a close eye on Seung-hee. Jane of course dislikes the idea, she is thirty and hated high school, and demands that she should be a teacher instead of a student, but her uncle, who is also her ranking officer, basically says that she is such an idiot that there is no way that she could teach a class. So, against her will, an angry, spunky woman is sent back to school.Always a bit hostile, Jane soon unleashes her fury upon a girl gang and later a group of boys hired by said girl gang. She is constantly in trouble with her P.E. teacher who seems to view her as some type of social deviant, and she has a number of misunderstandings with other girls. However, she is eventually able to find a comfortable position at the school, but when she finally accomplishes this Detective Cho goes undercover at the same school.She's on Duty is a decent film. It takes an old and tired theme and adds new life to it. This is mainly accomplished through the acting of Kim Seon-a who is probably best known for her work on the drama series My Name is Kim-sun. Kim is a spunky and very cute woman who looks twenty instead of thirty and her high energy and exaggerated movements make for an enjoyable film watching experience. However, outside of Kim's performance this film leaves a lot to be desired. There are revelations that can be seen a mile away and some scenes are quite mawkish, but overall She's on Duty is not too bad and it is at least good enough to tickle your funny bone once or twice.
ulrho This movie seems more like a pilot episode for a TV-show than a regular film, although I don't know weather or not this is actually the case. The story is not that complicated and the telling of it offers no surprises. The actors generally do a good job, but the only one who stands out is Kong Yu as Kang No-Young who was thankfully given a more understated roll than the leading actress Kim Seon-a (as Chun Jae-in). Perhaps it is simply the contrast of his character against the rest of the film, but something about him caught attention (and I'm not talking about his good looks, although there certainly is no lack of that either) and held it in every scene. Given the chance I would definitely watch him in another movie. This is a movie to watch when you are in the mood for something light and easily chewed, and you really, really don't feel too analytical or criticizing... It does have some darker sides to it, but nothing that will spoil the general cheerfulness. If this came on TV (fat chance... *SIGH*) I'd watch it again, but I wouldn't spend money on it - nor would I recommend anyone else to do so.