Secret

I found it difficult that police investigations in South Korea are that inept and incompetent. It can't be. The detectives and coroner in Secret make the Keystone Kops look like Mensa members.

Is the police department so rigged that every cop is under the thumb of the local mobster? Speaking of the mobster (Jackal), why is he and his henchmen allowed to frolic about the city so casually, freely admitting to the detectives that he has committed murders, without any repercussions?

I really wanted to like this film, even going so far as to overlook the South Korean trope of having characters cry crocodile tears in drawn-out sad scenes while sappy string music played in the background. But in the end, the on-screen incompetence was just unbearable and unrealistic - unless, of course, that really is how crimes are investigated in South Korea. In that case, I stand corrected.