Unlocked | Korean Film | It’s Not Smart to Lose Your Smartphone
Unlocked is a Korean film streaming on Netflix, released in 2023. A young woman loses her smartphone. A serial killer finds it and turns her life into a living hell!
Sometimes Smart People Are Not Very Smart
Lee Na-Mi (played by Chun Woo-hee, “Love, Lies“) is a female hustler. She’s intelligent, talented, hard-working, has excellent marketing skills, and holds down more than one job. When she’s not working beside her dad in his cafe, she is doing other jobs related to marketing products via social media technology. Like most young people her age, she uses her smartphone FOR EVERYTHING!! Work and play. Her device has loads of photos with friends and family, as well as lots of revealing.text messages. Very revealing. It’s surprising how innocent innocuous casual conversations via text messages reveal a lot about an individual.
Lee Na-Mi is smart but she did something not so smart. She got stupid drunk and in her drunken stupor lost her smartphone.
Oh Jun-Yeong (played by Im Si-Wan, “The King Loves”) is the person who found her device.
- He has insidious ideas about how he plans to take advantage of her carelessness.
- He knows all about how to use apps to disguise his voice and how to instill spyware on a person’s phone for the purpose of stalking, harassing, and terrorizing them.
- He enjoys a little bit of sick fun, such as playing perverted mind games.
- He finds a way to insert himself into the everyday life of his victims, and then pretends he’s helping them when he’s really deceiving them.
Oh Jun-Yeong is a PSYCHO! His end game is MURDER.
Sometimes Parents are Really Smart
Lee Na-Mi is innocent, unsuspecting, and naive. Her smartphone was lost, somebody found it and returned it to her. End of story. Right? Wrong!
Oh Jun-Yeong shows up at her father’s cafe and orders a drink that not’s on the menu. Lee Na-Mi is surprised he even knows they made such a drink. He says he’s a loyal customer but he has not been to the cafe in a while. That’s how he inserts himself into Lee Na-Mi’s everyday life. She is clueless regarding his true intentions. But her father doesn’t trust him. His mistrust is immediate and he warns his daughter to steer clear of him. She brushes it off as her dad being overprotective and having unreasonable suspicions.
By the time she realizes that she should have heeded her father’s warning, it’s too late. That psycho has trapped both her and her father in a murderous hellish nightmare.
Some Parents Never Give Up on Their Kids
Woo Ji-Man (played by Kim Hee-Won) is a detective who is also a father who has been searching for his missing son. While investigating a murder case he comes across clues and evidence that appear to indicate that his missing son is also a serial killer. It’s possible that Oh Jun-Yeong is his son. It’s possible. Not proven. He does not know for sure. In his desperate search to find his son, the trail leads him to Lee Na-Mi. He discovers that the serial killer intends to make Lee Na-Mi his next victim.
Lee Na-Mi’s life has become a living hell. Based on what the detectives told her, she wants to help the police stop Oh Jun-Yeong from killing others. Since she’s the “next victim”, she bravely volunteers to become the “bait” to catch this psycho and bring him to justice. If her efforts are successful, Oh Jun-Yeong will be put in prison and Woo Ji-Man will know for certain whether or not his missing son is also a serial murderer.
Viewership and Rating
This film was added to my watch list because the main male lead is Im Si-Wan. My first introduction to the actor Im Si-Wan was in The King Loves, a Viki Original series. He was also the lead character in Tracer (Seasons 1 and 2), also streaming on Viki.
Viewers have given this movie 3.8 out of 5 stars or 6.4 out of 10 stars. I agree.
It’s not a very high rating, but here’s why I think the rating is fair. In Unlocked, Im Si-Wan did not come across as a convincing vicious insane psychotic killer. He is much better at playing a good guy like he did in the two K-drama series mentioned above. That’s the minus for this movie. On the plus side, if you’re not smart about how to safeguard your smartphone after watching this movie, then don’t use the phone! The real world has stalkers, predators, and serial killers. Learn how to find and remove spyware.
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