As the world gets smaller and technology gets more advanced, scamming has become big business for industrious criminals around the world. Director Kim Gok’s On the Line takes dissects and attacks the growing voice phishing schemes that have destroyed so many lives. It’s an unusual action fueled take on what is essentially a underground call center business, not the environment usually associated with gun fights and stunt extravaganzas, but Gok’s film – for the most part – makes it work.
What would you do if a phishing scam ruined your life? If you’re Seo-joon (Byun Yo-han), an ex-cop whose wife has just been taken for their family’s entire savings, there is only one answer. You take the whole operation down by any means necessary. One day while Seo-joon is at work, his wife receives a series of phone calls that he has been arrested after an incident at his construction site. A rapid-fire sequence of lawyers, police, and co-workers inform her that the only way to keep him from going to prison is a legal maneuver that will cost $70,000, but it must be delivered immediately in order to halt the process.
Desperate to save her husband, and without any means to contact him, she gathers up the money and delivers it to the desired account. Soon after, a very…
