The Policeman's Lineage: Like Father, Like Foster Son

I wish I lived in a world in which the good cops trying to catch bad cops didn't hava a leg to stand on, that cops only broke laws to catch criminals, and not because they wanted to live outside the law themselves. That's the world The Policeman's Lineage wants you to entertain. But I don't see what's to gain from buying into such a fantasy. We all know that there are corrupt cops, greedy cops, violent cops, unrepentant cops, power-hungry cops and most other cops will protect those cops even if they're not committing the same crimes themselves.

In The Policeman's Lineage, naive rookie cop Choi Min Jae (Choi Woo-sik) struggles to figure out whom to trust in this make-believe police department. Detective Park Gang-yoon (Cho Jin-woong) who's living in a fancy apartment and wearing designer clothes so he can get close to the !% committing high-level crimes? Or the Internal Affairs department investigating this enforcer for shady behavior? Because this is a movie, our young officer has a hard time making the call. In the real world not directed by Lee Kyu-maan, the choice is obivous... certainly after your boss has taken a mini-circular-saw to your face. Who cares if he was friends with your daddy.