
Having to sit through two hours of "The Best Romance" is a vivid reminder that a job as a movie reviewer is not always fun, and in fact, can test one's patience. This reviewer even felt proud for not giving up on watching the film halfway through its cruel 109-minute running time. No wonder critics for a movie magazine overwhelmingly gave the film a thumbs down when it debuted in theaters earlier this year. Plus, it flopped at the box office ? proof there is a God.
So here is a review meant to save our dear readers from accidentally picking up this film, recently released as a DVD, at a neighborhood rental shop.
This self-described romantic comedy tells the story of the love between Choi Soo-jin (Hyeon Yeong), a newspaper reporter, and Kang Jae-hyuk (Lee Dong-wook), a detective. Soo-jin joined journalism full of dreams but without the capacity to change the world, and she is not happy hounding TV celebrities.
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