Attack the Gas Station!

Attack the Gas Station! (1999)

Genres - Comedy, Action, Adventure  |   Sub-Genres - Crime Comedy, Satire  |   Run Time - 113 min.  |   Countries - Korea, South  |   MPAA Rating - R
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Synopsis by Jonathan Crow

Kim Sang-jin directs this riotous send-up of Korea's rigidly hierarchical society. A quartet of nihilistic losers including an alienated athlete, a longhaired burnout, a spaced-out artist, and a muscle-bound meathead take to knocking over 24-hour gas stations. Their initial success eventually leads to trouble when they decide to hold up the same gas station again "just for fun." Unfortunately, the store manager had his wife take much of the day's earnings home with her just prior to the robbery. Stumped as what to do next, the four take the staff hostage and start to taunt the middle-aged manager (his underlings soon join in). They ridicule potential customers and order Chinese food until the film's delirious final showdown between the four protagonists, the cops, a local clan of gangsters, and irate delivery boys.

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gas-station, hostage, manager, robbery, showdown, society