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User Reviews for: On the Line

FLY_
6/10  8 months ago
Kinda ok cop/infiltration flick.

Not sure how accurate the representation of phishing farms is, but it is interesting. Actually it's the main subject of the movie, with a kind of story around it.

The first operation looks really overkill though. There is the team on the phone, even the big boss getting involved, plus all the people going to withdraw the money, plus the guy acting on the construction site.. All that for one account ? Plus it was just a small bonus, since the main target was the company I guess, but did they do that for every employee ? It seemed a scenario specifically designed for him though. Not clear what they do exactly. Do they empty the victim's account ? How ? Or do they just empty the account the transfer has just been done to ?

Anyway the story runs its course, and you follow it, but honestly, it's more of an excuse to show the way the farm works, can't say the main character brings anything more. Seriously ? What does he do ?

The cop work is magical. Literally. He can find the guy that did the tattoo ? It could have been done 5 years ago, anywhere, but no, it was in a shop nearby, and they guy remembers it ? Come on. And almost every step is like that.

The infiltration work is cheap to say the least. While inside he's extremely suspicious, he's always asking questions to people he just met, it's really surprising he's not found out immediately.

And in the end, it doesn't really look like he accomplished anything. I mean, maybe the [spoiler]final location of the warehouse[/spoiler] was exclusively due to him being there ? Absolutely everything else, the cops would have done without him, and even sooner since he interfered.

Also, since [spoiler]the girl got caught[/spoiler], the plan to get the money back is dead. So magically, it's solved by [spoiler]the cops managing to get the money back to people[/spoiler] ? Not sure it can work that way. Anyway, doesn't fraud insurance exist in Korea ?

Small thing: it's interesting that they had to make the bad guy _extra villain_ by having him enjoying it, and extra taunting the victims, or pushing them to suicide. As if the simple normal evil of regular people making money on the misery of others was not enough.
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