The Korean title sounds like it is a zombie movie, but it is about an unexpected happening to a dead body. Comedy is a very difficult genre for directors to make it a long feature film. Too much obsession for a big laugh makes it exaggerate too much, but Over My Dead Body is earnest and pleasant not losing fun and laugh. The film is bristling with winks and whimsy, and it is very good in terms of plots and directions.
It stars KIM Bum-soo, KIM Ok-bin, and RYU Seung-bum. Bum-soo's acting is good, but Ok-bin's weak even though she wears skeleton accessories. Seung-bum plays a good role in this film. I remember his goose-bump acting as a corrupted prosecutor in The Unjust, 2010.
A CEO of bio company steals a chip hiding it in his arm, makes his firm bankrupt and tries to sell to a foreign country. The union demonstrates against it, but the senior researcher is hit by a car and hospitalized. The CEO is killed by his man, Steve, who will hold a funeral in US to take the chip.
Dong-hwa, sister of the senior researcher and Hyun-chul, junior researcher plan to steal the CEO's dead body and ask for ransom because hospital expanse is needed. They don't know about the implanted chip.
Policemen appear when they are about to call and ask money. The stolen body is in the back seat, smelling bad. The corpse gets up and they deflect the danger. It is Jin-oh, a mysterious, unpredictable, comic guy. They become a team for the ransom.
Steve chases them, the national intelligent agency investigates undercover. It becomes complicated.
The trio manage to succeed, taking money and the chip. Agency catches them. They donate it and the senior researcher successfully invents a new medicine.
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