Fabricated City review

Movie name: Fabricated City
Country: South Korea
Year: Feb 2017

I heard about this movie after K2 ended, was looking forward to seeing Ji Chang Wook in action again yass! From the title at first I thought it was some kind of sci-fi movie, along with the lines of Gattaca or The Matrix... but it's not what I expected! 

So,what's this movie about?

The movie opens with a special forces kind of ops, where the team was about to enter battle in order to save the world kind of thing. :D Captain (Ji Chang Wook) is the leader and his team consists of a hacker, sniper, demolisher expert and several others. The team is superb and they were about to complete the mission when one of the team members named Mr Hairy was caught in the cross fire. Captain jumps in to save him but loses his life in the end. Oh noes! :O 

Well, don't worry... it's just a video game. ;D Captain in real life is an unemployed youngster named Kwon Yu who lives with his mum and plays video games to pass his time. He gets into trouble one day when he finds a mobile phone and returns it to the owner for a small sum of money as a reward. He was framed for rape and murder of an under-aged girl, he has no memory of doing any of it but all the evidence pointed to him. 

He was thrown into the maximum security jail for the virtue of his crime. He was beaten and sodomised by the other inmates there. He wanted to take his own life by chewing at his wrists but it was his mum who gave him strength to endure. She vowed to get him out of there and prove that he was not a rapist. Unfortunately his mum passed away not long after and Kwon Yu was determined to get out of there to clear his name. It was also thanks to another long term inmate who taught him how to get out of there... 

I guess this is where the story actually starts... For me that is! ;D Kwon Yu, not knowing what to do, headed to his lawyer's office for help. Little did he know that his lawyer isn't exactly a good guy... Lawyer Min gives Kwon Yu the necklace left behind by his late mum and called the police. Luckily Kwon Yu manages to escape in time. 

He heads to the cybercafe to find out more information about his case and tried to access his email account when suddenly the pc is taken over by someone. It showed everything about what happened to him. It seemed like that person knows that he was framed and trying to help him. That person turns out to be Mr Hairy, his gamer friend! Mr Hairy isn't hairy at all, she's a girl named Yeo-wool who is a real life hacker. 

Yeo-wool gathers all the other gamers to her hideout and they all wanted to help Kwon Yu. Reckon is an expert in fixing stuff, Demolisher works as a fx (special effects) for a production company and Teacher is sort of an architecture lecturer... or so he says! ;D 

This rag-tag bunch set out on their mission and stumbles upon something big, which is a syndicate that helps people to clean up s**. Yup, they are hired hands who will do everything to help you get away with murder. Literally. :O

The latest murder was an actor and the murderer is the daughter of a prominent Chairman. The team watches in horror how the syndicate clean up the murder scene and fabricate all the evidence in another location. Kwon Yu walks around the new fabricated murder scene in disbelief... I pity the poor actor who had to be naked in that tank there! :O Kwon Yu didn't know that he was being watched... yes, by the very lawyer Min. I shall call him Psycho Min... He is the mastermind behind this syndicate.

Kwon Yu and gang tried to go after the syndicate members but somehow they were always one step faster. It seemed like they knew his every move and location. He was caught by the dangerous inmate who was freed from prison by Psycho Min. Nuuuu! 

No worries, the hero escapes again with the help of Yeo-wool. :D Yeo-wool finds a tracker on Kwon Yu and it was in the necklace. He finally knew who was behind it all. The team reorganises with their new target in mind and worked to get all the equipment ready. I love this part so much, they pimped up the beat up car with the Audi car engine! Hahahah!! 

Okay, you'll have to leave your brain behind starting from now.. ;D The team goes after the individual members of the syndicate, crippling it one by one. However, in order to bring down Psycho Min, they will need to access his gigantic server. Kwon Yu manages to get into the server room but alas the same scenario in the video game appears in real life. Psycho Min captures the other team mates and Kwon Yu has to make the decision to save his team. 

Some awesome car chase scenes here... Love love it! The stunt drivers are amazing and I want that cute car so much! :D

Kwon Yu manages to get to his team in time and they raced to the TV station in order to broadcast the evidence against Psycho Min. Very epic car chase in the car park there! I wonder if it is KBS car park or something! Hahah!! Love the Jackie Chan move, where the car goes into the parking bay while the pursuers go by not noticing them! 

The team unloads and Yeo-wool heads up to the broadcast centre while the rest gear up to bring down the enemy. Love this part where Kwon Yu, the Captain talks to his team mates before their mission starts. It's not a game but for real. Everyone responds without hesitation. Game On!

Lots of booms and car chases but the SWAT team came in and arrested Reckon and Demolisher. Meanwhile Yeo-wool was taken by the crazy inmate and Kwon Yu went to rescue her, just like in the video game. What is this girl she always needs rescuing! ;D 

No logic at this part where Kwon Yu returns to the TV station and drops Yeo-wool off. Supposedly the building is secured by the SWAT team, how could she enter it again?! Hahah! Anyways it seemed like the end for Kwon Yu when the police surrounded him and he got out of the car surrendering himself. Psycho Min jumps in joy thinking that he had won the game... 

The game was not over yet. Psycho Min had no idea about the other two gamers who work in the adult movie scene... Haha! They set up in a small van outside the TV station and started to broadcast. Yeo-wool pulled all the data from Psycho Min's server and the whole of Korea saw everything that happened in the actor's murder case and also Kwon Yu's case. Psycho Min screams in horror all of his data flowed out of his server and the truth was revealed. 

Happy ending y'all! Kwon Yu was cleared of all his charges and Psycho Min got what he deserved. I was laughing when the couple came back to their newly pimped car! Seriously, the husband was trying to rip off Kwon Yu at first but Kwon Yu returned them with a nice fixed up car instead. Bleh! 

The team celebrates victory, this time in real life... and Captain leaves us with some deep thoughts about trees... Hahaha! I know right?! Yes, we know that the tree is still alive... ;D Okay, not complaining because we get to see Ji Chang Wook smiling at us!! ;P

Overall thoughts?

It was hard watching the first half of the movie. I'm not a fan of prison scenes, would have probably not continue watching it if it not because of Ji Chang Wook. ;D I'm glad to have stuck to it and the rest of the show was action packed. Love all the car chase scenes and explosions. The cast was good, they all played their characters well. To be honest, I could hardly see Mr Hairy's face throughout the whole movie! She was partially hidden most of the time. 

There isn't any romance, just a hint of it where she bought Kwon Yu a new leather jacket. Short but sweet. I guess she knew who he was even before the case, since she is a hacker she would have known what he looked like. She stuck to him during game time in order to level up and Kwon Yu would always risk his life to save her. Aww, so sweet! ;D

It's strange seeing Ji Chang Wook younger here. It seems that the filming for this movie was in 2015, two years ago. I think the producers needed time to edit the special effects and all that. I didn't know he could have curly like hair! Looks weird but still cute. ;D 

So far, this is my fourth Korean movie. I have seen The Suspect, Finding Mr Destiny and The Beauty Inside. (Which reminds me I need to do those reviews! ;P) I look forward to more Korean movies. It is different from those we usually see from Hollywood or Hong Kong ones. Alright, I'll leave you with Ji Chang Wook as Captain saving his team! Game On!