Review | Mission: Cross movie review – Hwang Jung-min, Yum Jung-ah play couple in Netflix spy caper
- This Netflix film, inspired by Hollywood movies True Lies and Mr & Mrs Smith, combines strong female performances with plenty of action
4/5 stars
Director Lee Myung-hoon’s feature debut is a hilarious, action-packed spy caper that follows a retired special forces operative as he is forced back into action, only to face a greater threat from his unsuspecting wife – a formidable police captain – who knows nothing about his former life.
Taking its narrative cues from Hollywood hits like True Lies and Mr & Mrs Smith, the film casts Hwang Jung-min as the domesticated Kang-mu, whose quiet routine as a loyal house-husband is thrown into disarray after he is contacted by a desperate former teammate.
But it is Yum Jung-ah who steals the show as his hard-nosed, no-nonsense wife, Mi-seon, head of Seoul’s Major Crime Investigation Division, who discovers there is more to her humble hubby than meets the eye.
Kang-mu has left his dangerous past behind, and is perfectly happy cooking and cleaning for Mi-seon while working part-time as a school-bus driver.
When he is contacted out of the blue by Hee-ju (Jeon Hye-jin), Kang-mu is soon dragged back into a covert mission involving rogue military generals and a missing slush fund containing trillions of Korean won in undocumented cash.
