CONFIDENTIAL ASSIGNMENT is a 2017 action-comedy movie from South Korea that starts off on a serious footing. Our hero is actor Hyun Bin, a North Korean soldier who gets betrayed by a colleague who murders his wife and flees to the south. He takes with him some unique printing plates so the north send him to get them back, at which point he teams up with a comedic South Korean cop. This plays out very typically for a buddy comedy with some fish out of water humour, but what marks it out are the fight scenes which are above and beyond anything Hollywood shoots these days. The actors don't look like they're sparring, for example. There are car stunts, shoot-outs and all the requisite scenes, and only Yoon-a's mindless love interest falls flat. A sequel follows.
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