SYNOPSIS:
Drop dead gorgeous Miss Shin Mi-su is an account executive at an advertising company. Overly confident, she juggles relationship with 3 men, a rich man with few odd quirks; a law-school student struggling to pass his bar exam; an up and coming b-boy rapper. She adapts different persona for each one.
Then a fourth person enters the picture. He's a grumpy neighbour that seems impervious to Mi-su's charms. Unexpectedly, her neighbour shows up at her ad agency as a client for an all important job. Has Miss Shin finally met her match?
MOVIE REVIEW:
As the title implies, "Miss Gold Digger" is about
the exploits of Shin (Han Ye-seul), a sexy beautiful ad executive
who dreams of getting hitch to the right guy preferable one
who is rich, smart and suave.
Well
as the story goes, Shin did happen to cross paths with guys
with all the above requisites. Not one guy but three and later
four. The first guy is rich but in Shin’s eyes, he is
ugly-looking. The second guy who is still trying to pass the
bar to be a DA is lacking in the dressing department and the
third, a Rain look-alike is a talented rap singer and dancer.
It’s not that complicated but I shall delve on the last
guy in the later paragraphs.
In
today cosmopolitan’s society with increasing living
expenses, demands for luxury goods and heavy influences by
shows such as "Sex and the City", the character
of Shin is no longer an exaggerated caricature. I’m
not trying to create any feminist uproar here but it’s
a true fact that our female counterparts have evolved greatly
over the years and it’s a sad fact that we men who have
been evolving at half the pace resorted to marrying foreign
partners than spending time going after girls liked Shin.
Back
to our "Miss Gold Digger", for the whole, it strives
to be a romance comedy but unlike Jeong Ryeo-won (2 faces
of my girlfriend) and Kim A-Joong (200 Pounds Beauty), our
leading lady here although carries the looks sadly lacks a
certain comic vibe compared to the prior two. There are scenes
which can be potentially funny that falls flat at the end
so it’s either due to the fact that the comic-timing
is off or the dialogues aren’t witty enough to engage
the funny bones in you.
The
filmmakers apparently tried to squeeze too many elements into
one story. There’s the main plot of our female protagonist’s
conquest of course, the three 'stooges' and a cliché-filled
subplot of Shin’s arch enemy being romantically entangle
with her. This 'arch-enemy' role makes up the fourth guy (as
mentioned earlier) which unfortunately leads to an unsatisfying
conclusion.
We
jump hastily from one scene to another without getting an
in-depth look at the various characters except for the disturbing
fact that the rich guy has a fetish for hands. There is also
some dream-like sequences litter throughout the movie which
revolves around Shin, other than cute and fluffy, I couldn’t
find anything else to describe them.
It’s
very clear to us as to what the script is trying to convey,
it’s just that when everything comes together, "Miss
Gold Digger" didn’t really trigger a bigger impact
than it should be. A pity considers that all the elements
to make it a success were there.
SPECIAL
FEATURES:
This Code 3 DVD contains no bonus features.
AUDIO/VISUAL:
The disc’s visual transfer is acceptable and the Dolby Digital 2.0 is competent in this dialogue-based movie.
MOVIE RATING:
 
DVD
RATING:
Review by Linus Tee
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