A hugely entertaining action comedy, Extreme Job features a squad of oddball narcotics detectives who look good on paper (just why is part of the climax and very satisfying), but keeps screwing up operations and getting passed for promotions. When they buy and start running a fried chicken place so they can surveil the gangsters across the street, they screw up by becoming a big success as a restaurant, and amusingly, neither side sees what's going on under their very noses. A number of laughs throughout, and couple of good twists, and well-differentiated characters makes Extreme Job a joy to watch (the bad guys also has a female enforcer who seems right out of John Wick, awesome Sun-hee). I love how Asia has this whole subgenre of cooking movies, and this one might just make you order some chicken at the halfway point. As to the action, it's sporadic, but every fight is shot differently, offering variety as well as fine choreography. Extremely fun.
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A hugely entertaining action comedy, Extreme Job features a squad of oddball narcotics detectives who look good on paper (just why is part of the climax and very satisfying), but keeps screwing up operations and getting passed for promotions. When they buy and start running a fried chicken place so they can surveil the gangsters across the street, they screw up by becoming a big success as a restaurant, and amusingly, neither side sees what's going on under their very noses. A number of laughs throughout, and couple of good twists, and well-differentiated characters makes Extreme Job a joy to watch (the bad guys also has a female enforcer who seems right out of John Wick, awesome Sun-hee). I love how Asia has this whole subgenre of cooking movies, and this one might just make you order some chicken at the halfway point. As to the action, it's sporadic, but every fight is shot differently, offering variety as well as fine choreography. Extremely fun.