Hit And Run Squad – The Police Commissioner is Corrupt

“Hit-and-Run Squad” is a 2019 Action-Crime Korean movie.

SUMMARY: The female detective was assigned to a special operation that failed but she wasn’t fired. Intead her superiors transferred her to the Hit-and-Run Squad.

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In “Hit-and-Run Squad”, Eun Shi-Yeon was a police lieutenant assigned to a special operation. The mission was to prove that the police commissioner was corrupt. They got so close! But in the end they failed. That meant that the police commissioner was still their boss. She was lucky she didn’t get fired. Her immediate supervisor pulled some strings in HR, she was demoted and transferred to the Hit-and-Run Squad. Eun Shi-Yeon felt bummed out until her supervisor told her that the evidence they needed to prove the police commissioner’s corruption could be found in that unit of the police department. Eun Shi-Yeon suddenly became very interested in her new job. She will be working along with Police Constable Seo Min-Jae. It turns out both of them are after the same guy, Jung Jae-Cheol.

• Seo Min-Jae was investigating a hit-and-run accident and he was sure Jung Jae-Cheol was the culprit.

• Eun Shi-Yeon was investigating Jung Jae-Cheol because he was the one bribing the police commissioner.

But Jung Jae-Cheol is a wealthy race car driver. He is the first Formula One racer in South Korea and now he owns the race track: cars and all. Jung Jae-Cheol has more than enough money to pay others to cover up his crimes and enough smart lawyers to get any charges against him dropped.

No matter. Seo Min-Jae and Eun Shi-Yeon are both determined to bring him in. But they really need to be careful. Jung Jae-Cheol is a nasty piece-of-work!

Main Characters:

• Eun Shi-Yeon (played by Kong Hyo-Jin, “When the Stars Gossip”, “The Master’s Sun”)
• Jung Jae-Cheol (played by Cho Jung-Seok, “Pilot”, “Captivating The King”, “The Face Reader”, “The Nokdu Flower”, “The Fatal Encounter“)
• Seo Min-Jae (played by Ryu Jun-Yeol, “The 8 Show”, “The Night Owl ”, “Alienoid 1 and 2”, “Believer”, “A Taxi Driver”, “Reply 1988”)

Where to Watch

Viewership and Rating:

• IMDb: 5.9 out of 10 stars
• My Drama List: 7.7 out of 10 stars
• Letterboxd:  2.8 out of 5 stars
• Viki viewers rated this movie 9.2 out of 10 stars

My personal rating is NOT the same as the Viki viewers. I’m OK with MDL’s rating.

I know that I usually agree with the Viki viewing audience. But not this time. It was an action movie but it didn’t fill me with thrills and chills. There were lots of reviews. People probably watched the movie for the same reason I watched it. I chose this movie because of the female lead and the bad guy male lead.

• South Korean actress Kong Hyo-Jin made her comeback in the 2025 K-drama series “When the Stars Gossip”. She is not an actress I follow so I didn’t know she needed to come back. It made me curious about some of the K-dramas she had done. WOW! She’s been acting since 1999.

• South Korean actor Cho Jung-Seok did a good job of playing a “stuttering psycho prick”. But he always does a good job.  But he said his role in “Pilot” took a toll on him because he played both a man and a woman and it strained his voice.

LINKS OF INTEREST:

“Hit-And-Run Squad” Review: What Did And Didn’t Work | Soompi

Movie Review: Hit And Run Squad (2019) | Ahjummamshies

[Herald Review] ‘Hit-and-Run Squad’ pretentious and impressively unimpressive | The Korea Herald

Film Review: Hit-and-Run Squad (2019) by Han Jun-hee |Asian Movie Pulse

K-movie revisited: ‘Hit and Run Squad’ deserves second chance | The Korea Times

Review | Hit-and-Run Squad film review: Korean crime drama’s strong female characters can’t save it from its flaws | South China Morning Post

Movie review: South Korean action flick Hit-And-Run Squad loses steam in the second half | The Straits Times

TRAILER/TEASER:

Movies, F. A. (2019). HIT AND RUN SQUAD Official Trailer [Video]. In YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbmhTfSFSpk.

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