Review: I knew that a day will come when I will be disappointed by a Korean movie that looked very promising. But alas, that day did come in the form of "Jakarta." In this case, the intention was there, but unfortunately it didn't turn out like it could have been. At first sight, the story was very complex and interesting, but I just didn't dig the cinematography. It looked as if the director tried too much to give a very stylish look to the movie with some camera tricks and cool editing, but I didn't find it effective at all. The director probably had some good intentions while doing this, but I just found it more annoying than great.

At least I found the story inventive. There are a lot of elements that I didn't expect at all that caught me completely off guard. The first part of the movie show sthe bank robbery going awry until it concludes. The second part reveals all the key elements in the story using long flashbacks try to make the story clearer. The final part gets back in the present to show the final conclusion of the movie. The story was very well scripted but I found that the flashbacks were introduced too brutally in the movie. But still, the flashbacks are probably the most important part of the movie, don't miss a frame or you will be completely lost. As for the conclusion, I found it a little predictable and not as surprising as the flashbacks since the entire key elements were already in place.

Another thing that I had problem with, except the cinematography, were the actors. I found them annoying and not funny at all, but as the story progress, I started to like some of the characters while I found other ones completely intolerable. I don't know if it was because I didn't find any of them charismatic at all or maybe they were just bad actors. Either that, or there wasn't enough background development on them. The blond guy bank robber was probably the funniest character of them all, at least he looked and acted funny in some of the situations. The VP also tried to look funny, sometime it worked but most of the time I didn't liked it. The best acting probably come from the girl who was in love with the VP; at least she looked serious and convincing in his small role. Probably the most annoying character was the third bank robber with his stupid hair; I didn't like him at all. Maybe because he looked like he was always over acting or maybe simply because I don't like this type of character. In general I was not impressed by the cast of the movie but it might be only a matter of personal taste and some of you might not be agree with what I think, but during the movie I didn't care who would live and who would die and that is definitely not a good thing.

The side of the movie that I was probably the most disappointed with was probably the humor. Usually I like the situational and physical humor that happen in Korean films, but this time it didn't work out so well. It's true that during the scene when the girl called the police and also the gun scene between the 2 bank robbers and the arm dealer, I was laughing my ass off! I really liked these two scenes, but unfortunately, that was about it. There should have been more funny scenes like this and the movie could have been a memorable classic, but unfortunately I found most of the jokes predictable and not really funny. Too bad, because the premise of the movie was good and had some great potential for situational jokes.