100 Days With Mr. Arrogant Movie Review

I expected more from this movie... can't believe I wasted 2 hours (2 hours!!!) of my precious weekend watching this piece of crap (whoops, vulgar language) oh soo wonderfully tearjerking movie.

sigh...2 hours ... 2 hours.....2 hours....

Title: 100 Days With Mr. Arrogant/내 사랑 싸가지/  Nae Sarang Ssagaji

Year: 2004

Language: Korean

Director: Shin Dong-Yeop

Cast: Kim Jaewon as Ahn Hyung-jun

          Ha Ji Won as Kang Ha-yeong

Summary: (I'm not even going to bother writing my own...because there's really nothing much to say in the first place...so here we go... summary from wikipedia! yay!)

After being dumped by her boyfriend just before their 100 day anniversary, Ha-Young (Ha Ji-Won) meets a college guy named Hyung-Joon when she kicks a can that accidentally hits him in the face and causes him to scratch his Lexus. He demands she pay him $3000 on the spot. She escapes from him, leaving her wallet behind.
Hyung-Joon stalks her, demanding money to pay for his car. Since she is a poor high school student Hyung-Joon writes up a "Enslavement Agreement" for Ha-Young in order to pay for the damage to his car. Ha-Young is thrown into a nightmarish slave life for 100 days, running his errands, i.e.: cleaning his house, carrying his shopping, and cleaning his car.

-Wikipedia

Review:

I thought this movie was going to be interesting. But it's not. The basic outline seemed so promising. A girl under a slave contract? I was already having fun imagining the crazy requests the guy would make and the hilarious situations they would get into. It didn't meet my expectations. And though there were funny parts (My favorite scene is when he starts tutoring her and they go to the sauna....That part was downright entertaining) it got boring and tiring watching him abuse her. The plot didn't flow well and I was so suprised when they started liking each other. Where did that come from?The story was typical. You know how just when the two leads become a couple something breaks them apart? Well like almost all dramas guess what it was...Her mom. Wow, talk about typical misunderstanding parents.

Ha Ji Won as Kang Ha-Yeong

If the plot was typical, the charaters were even more typical. The guy is your basic jerk. The girl is the clumsy, outgoing, weird-daydreaming student. Ha Ji Won and Kim Jae Won did have chemistry though and  they're great actors...so I blame the scriptwriters and directors.

Talking about directors, the film was made in 2004, so the cinematography is pretty bad and the editing is not that great either, causing the choppy plotline.

But if there was one good thing about the movie, it was the ending. Without spoiling it, I'll say that it had a good moral. The girl learned to be independent, to be able to achieve her own dreams without completely relying on the guy....

And no...no one dies. It's definetly not those sappy korean drama movies.

It's a lighthearted comedy, but the fact is, there are way better movies you could use your precious time on.

CoAige's Rating (6/10)