ANOTHER PUBLIC ENEMY (2005)

What...the...f?  When they named this movie Another Public Enemy, they literally meant another Public Enemy!  As in another movie called Public Enemy with some of the same character names and same actors, but all playing their roles completely different!  What in the hell is going on here?

In the original film, the character Chul-jung Kang (played brilliantly by Kyung-gu Sol) was this insane homicide detective who was so wild that he was damn near a gangster himself. Constantly beating people up, pissing off his supervisor, taking bribes and even at one point, taking a shit on a public sidewalk then getting his fecal matter (a.k.a. poo-poo) all over the murder weapon!  (And they called Harry Callahan "Dirty"!)  In this bizarre second film, there's still a character named Chul-jung Kang, once again played by Kyung-gu Sol, but this time he's a by-the-book public prosecutor! And the story has nothing at all to do with this first movie!

I went into this movie hoping to see a bigger and even crazier story about Det. Kang kicking even more ass than before, but nope.  Now he's a prosecutor who spends the majority of his time either super happy or crying.  And never once shitting on a single sidewalk!!!  The best way I can describe APE, is imagine if when they released LETHAL WEAPON 2, Mel Gibson was no longer a crazy, loose cannon cop, but instead, Perry Mason! That's what happened here.

What's even weirder is the guy who directed Part 1 is the same guy who directed this head scratching installment. Very strange. I didn’t hate the movie, but the story is just so...boring and lame that it’s hard to care what happens.  Plus, the film is 148 minutes long!!! What the fuck? Even as a stand alone movie, it starts out okay, but wears out it's welcome by at least 40 minutes.  Also, what's up with this series having a nearly 100% all-male cast?  That's not cool.

 

Part 1 - Public Enemy (2002)
Part 3 - Public Enemy Returns (2008)