My Wife is a Gangster- This entertaining
action-comedy is about a female gangster named Mantis. After
she is orphaned, she grows up around crime and violence
her whole life and becomes very adept at kicking ass. She
works her way up the ladder and becomes the leader of her
own vicious gang. As a result, she completely forgets how
to be a woman, that is, until she meets her long lost sister
who is dying of cancer. Her sister’s dying wish is
to see Mantis get married and settle down. She enlists her
men to find her a husband and they come up with a bumbling
and naïve man who has no idea what she really does
for a living. In one hilarious scene, the butchy gang leader
recruits a cheap-looking bar girl to teach her how to seduce
her future husband. The result is a barrel of laughs. Gangsters
from a rival gang take advantage of her new situation to
wage a gang war on her turf.
Most of the laughs in the movie come from seeing these two
opposites try to make their marriage work. The role reversal
with the woman being cast as the gangster gives this movie
an interesting twist.
This movie was
such a big hit at the Korean box office that they decided
to make a sequel. However, the original movie is way better.
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