 As much as I enjoyed the talents of some of Korea's younger actors last year, I also got to appreciate some of its more veteran actors. The jopok comedy Shit Up! (a.k.a. None of Your Cheek) is one of those movies, and it's okay, if a little bit unremarkable.
Choi Bul-am, Oh Ji-Myeong and No Ju-Hyeon play three gangsters who were at the top of their game back in 1989. On the eve of their boss' retirement, they are betrayed by their colleague Jo Dong-pal, and the former two gangsters are sent to prison for fifteen years.
After serving their sentence, the two meet up with No Ju-Hyeon's disgraced character and go out for revenge against Dong-pal. But fate has more in store for our three protagonists...
Shit Up! is basically a fun, turn-your-brain-cells-off movie. There are lots of scenes and situations that require you to suspend your disbelief, and there's an entire romantic subplot between Dong-pal's daughter that at first, seems tacked on, then later threatens to take over the focus of the movie in the last half, but if you can get through that, you can get a lot of enjoyable things from this movie.
Now for the enjoyable parts: the acting, which makes a few scenes look more funny than they actually are, the compulsory action scenes, which is okay, and the wacky camera work. Fast zoom-in shots ala Shaw Brothers? You Got It!
This movie, thanks to its stars, ends up far more interesting than it should be, and warrants at least a rental.
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