Welcome back to Movie Recaps. Today I will show you an action,
comedy film from 2020, titled Okay Madam. Spoilers ahead! Watch out and take care.
In 2009 in Mongolia, two agents from the North Korean Special Forces, Magnolia and Cheol-Seung,
are breaking into a hotel filled with enemy agents to steal some intel. While Cheol-Seung covers her
back, Magnolia searches the room, only to be interrupted by a call from her father telling
her to get out of there because some men are after her and she can't trust anybody. But before he can
say more, he's shot by an intruder. Cheol-Seung finishes taking care of all the enemies and goes
looking for his partner, but when Magnolia sees him, she remembers her father's words and shoots
him before escaping through the window. Years pass and it's now 2020 in Seoul, South Korea.
Mi-Young wakes up early to open her twisted doughnuts store and sells it all fairly quickly,
allowing her to close the shop in good time to visit her husband Seok-Hwan. He's a computer
repairman working in his own shop while drinking tons of juice - he's bought a bunch of little
bottles because there are special prizes on the caps. When Mi-Young notices this, she scolds him
for having wasted so much money, although she does like the sound of getting a new laundry machine.
While Seok-Hwan helps his latest client, Mi-Young decides to have some juice as well and is shocked
to find a surprise under the cap: the first prize, a trip to Hawaii. At first, the couple celebrates
their luck, but their mood changes when they return home. Mi-Young has decided they aren't
going because they can't afford to spend money on a vacation and close their shops for a whole week.
Instead, she'd rather sell the cap on the internet and use the money to buy a new laundry machine.
The other person in a bad mood is their daughter Na-ri, who arrives at home as Mi-Young receives
a text with bad news: Na-ri has hurt a fellow student again. She gets yelled at and spanked for
it, causing her to cry and confess she's tired of being made fun of for being the only kid in class
that doesn't have a phone or goes on vacation. Hearing this makes Mi-Young feel very bad,
so after putting Na-ri to bed, she has a talk with Seok-Hwan and accepts to go to Hawaii so their
daughter can have something nice in her life. As Seok-Hwan celebrates the decision, he accidentally
kicks the old laundry machine and makes it work again. The next day, the three of them
get their passports done. Meanwhile, a mysterious woman that also has a passport and a plane ticket
ready receives a call that tells her is time for her to get moving. In another part of the city,
Cheol-Seung also gets a call telling him Magnolia has resurfaced after ten years and that she'll be
going to Hawaii soon. His orders are to capture her alive. When the day of the trip finally comes,
Mi-Young still decides to work, that way she can take some extra money with her. They take
the airport shuttle instead of a taxi, so they arrive late at the airport where other passengers
for the same trip are gathering: Cheol-Seung, the mysterious woman who is keeping her face hidden,
and special agent Kim Ha-Rim and his gang, who are here to capture Magnolia too. Luckily for the
family, they arrive right before the gate closes, so they are allowed to board. Not only that,
but since there are two remaining business class seats, the clerk upgrades their tickets for free.
Mi-Young and Nari take the business class seats while Seok-Hwan stays in economy.
The plane is filled with interesting people like steward Hyun-Min, who thinks keeping an eye out
for suspicious behavior and keeping an eye on everyone's safety is part of the steward mission;
congressman Jang Pil-joon, and a nervous man that is flying because his bosses sent him so he takes
a bunch of pills to keep his fear under control. Once the plane takes off, the enemy agents begin
walking around the plane to see if they can find Magnolia. The mysterious woman notices
this and goes to hide in the bathroom while Hyun-Min brings some snacks for Mi-Young.
He accidentally drops the nuts when he's about to serve them, but Mi-Young catches them all by using
outstanding reflexes. This makes Hyun-Min think she may be a spy or a national security agent.
Meanwhile, Seok-Hwan befriends fellow passenger Buk Keuk-Seong, who is traveling alone to visit
his daughter and grandaughter, even carrying a teddy bear with him to gift them later.
Back in business, Mi-Young is having stomach cramps, so she goes looking for a bathroom after
finding her husband and telling him to keep an eye on their daughter. The first restroom
is taken by the mysterious woman, so Mi-Young goes farther into the plane to look for another
stall and comes across the special agents, who haven't been able to find Magnolia and pretend
they're waiting in line when they see Mi-Young coming. While she finally finds an empty stall,
Ha-Rim goes to talk to Cheol-Seung, telling him they can't find Magnolia but they haven't
checked the business class yet because they don't have access to it. Cheol-Seung thinks they can't
wait anymore, so he gives orders to start the operation. Hyun-Min overhears one of the men
receiving such orders, but when he tries to tell the other steward, she doesn't believe him because
he's always playing pretend to be a spy. The enemy agents hijack the plane then. Cheol-Seung takes a
steward as a hostage and goes to see the captain to make him change the destination of the plane.
Meanwhile, his men search the plane so they can put every passanger together in the same sector.
The clumsiest one of the gang is in charge of checking the bathrooms and misses Mi-Young
because she doesn't answer when he knocks. Next he checks a room at the back and ends
up locked inside when the plane does a sudden turn and pushes a cart in front of the door.
Pil-joon believes they're here for him because he's an important politician,
but the agents don't care and send him to sit with the rest of the economy passengers.
The South Korean national security service receives the news of the hijacking, but for
now they stay calm because there's an agent on board. Unfortunately, that agent is the nervous
man. He's taken so many pills that he's fallen deeply asleep and won't wake up even if shaken,
so the agents just drag him with the others as if he was a doll. Cheol-Seung notices the mysterious
woman in the crowd and makes her uncover her face only to discover she isn't Magnolia: she's Ahn
Sera, a famous actress that is trying to travel without getting any attention. In the meantime,
the national security service believes they've found the reason why the plane is being hijacked.
Magnolia defected North Korea and came to the South pretending to be Chinese and has been
categorized as a person of interest since then. There's one detail they overlooked though: she got
plastic surgery to change her appearance and start a new life with a new name and face. It turns out,
Magnolia is now Mi-Young. When one of the men hears her in the bathroom, he tries to capture
her, but her fighting instincts kick in and she quickly knocks him out. While wondering what to
do next, she hears Cheol-Seung's voice on the speakers asking for Magnolia to reveal herself,
so Mi-Young begins remembering how her life quickly changed over ten years ago:
shooting Cheol-Seung and escaping, meeting Seok-Hwan and having their daughter.
She doesn't want to lose her family, so she decides it's time for her to fight again.
While she sneaks around trying to find a good entry point to execute a plan, Seok-Hwan decides
he also must do something to check on his wife. After leaving his daughter with Keuk-Seong,
he sneaks out of the economy sector while the men go around retrieving everyone's phones. He finds
a dropped laptop and takes it with him before going down a hatch that leads to the server room.
There, he connects the computer to the system and hacks his way in to gain control of the plane.
Meanwhile, one of the men takes Hyun-Min to the steward area, commanding him to find and give him
the passenger list. Hyun-Min notices Mi-Young is hidden in the ceiling, so he takes extra long to
find the list to buy time until Mi-Young sees an opening and jumps on the agent to knock him out.
Mi-Young then asks for the passenger list, which Hyun-Min has been hiding in his sock all along, to
check it and burn it in the microwave. Next, she dresses up as a steward and receives Hyun-Min's
smartwatch for communication, since he'll be going to the backroom to find the tasers they
keep there. Mi-Young enters the first economy area that is now empty except for one of the agents,
but one man isn't an issue for her and she quickly knocks him out. Afterward, she enters the sector
where all the passengers are being kept, and since her daughter is there too, Mi-Young takes a random
person's sun visor to cover her face before beating up the agent watching over that area.
Hyun-Min reaches the server room and finds Seok-Hwan sending messages to the national
security service about the situation so he tries to ambush him, but it turns out Hyun-Min is a
secret agent too and easily stops his attack. He's frustrated because the higher-ups don't want him
to get involved since he's retired, so Hyun-Min lets him know about the other agent on their side
and takes out his phone to call his smart-watch. Because Hyun-Min likes to play spies, the voices
get distorted through his app, so Seok-Hwan and Mi-Young don't recognize each other while
they talk. The chat doesn't even last that long because Mi-Young hangs up as soon as Seok-Hwan
begins scolding her on the proper way to deal with a situation like this. Afterward, he overrides the
plane controls to put it on autopilot and fix its destination while Hyun-Min finally reaches
the backroom and finds the teasers - he also finds the man that locked himself earlier taking a nap.
Cheol-Seung, who has been in the cockpit keeping the captain at gunpoint, notices the change of
direction and checks the security cameras. As soon as he sees Seok-Hwan messing with the controls,
he rushes to capture him. Meanwhile, Ha-Rim finds Mi-Young and begins fighting her. He's a much
better opponent than his men so it takes Mi-Young longer to knock him out, but after a couple of
close calls and losing her mask, she manages to defeat him. Her victory doesn't last long though:
Cheol-Seung shows up with Seok-Hwan as his hostage and tells her her husband has always been a
government agent. As shocked as she may be, this still isn't enough for her to let him get hurt,
so she stops the knife Cheol-Seung throws at Seok-Hwan, making him believe she's been under
national security protection all this time. Cheol-Seung ties the couple up and sends them
away to be locked up, which means they have to walk through the passenger area. Na-ri sees them
and begins crying, so Keuk-Seong gives her the teddy bear to distract her. Cheol-Seung still
notices this and comes to check on her because perhaps she could be a useful hostage too,
but Na-ri lies and says Ahn Sera is her mother. This causes a commotion around the crowd since
the actress never mentioned a child in public, and Ahn Sera tries to deny it, but Na-ri comes closer
and whispers a request for help in her ear, so Ahn Sera accepts to lie for her sake. In the backroom,
Mi-Young is worried that her marriage is a lie, but Seok-Hwan wastes no time in telling her the
full story. He used to work as agent ages ago and he was assigned to surveil her, but he's
now retired. He fell in love with her the day he was following her around and accidentally got
harassed by some bullies - Mi-young had saved him and shared her food with him, and Seok-Hwan knew
then that he didn't want this to be a job anymore. He doesn't care that she's Magnolia or that she
used to kill people, all he cares about is that she's his wife and the mother to his child.
Such unconditional love makes Mi-Young cry. Back to the passengers, one of them finds the knife
Mi-Young had saved her husband from and uses it to free people's hands, but they can't do much before
one of the agents comes back in. The real surprise however, comes when two passengers suddenly stand
up and beat the agent up. These two guys are under Ha-Rim's orders, and they join their leader in the
cockpit, where they kick Cheol-Seung and tell him they're in charge now. Unlike Cheol-Seung,
who wants to take Mi-Young back to the government officials, Ha-Rim wants to sell her to the highest
offer. And while Cheol-Seung wanted to leave with her and let the plane do its thing, Ha-Rim wants
to take her with him with the parachutes but also make the plane crash because he doesn't care about
civilians' lives. Cheol-Seung tries to stop him but Ha-Rim's men quickly take him down and carry
him away while Ha-Rim forces the pilot to make the plane descend at a high speed. While all the
passengers begin to panic, Cheol-Seung is taken to the backroom with Mi-Young and Seok-Hwan. Mi-Young
takes the chance to question his intentions, so Cheol-Seong proceeds to explain his mission.
His government wants him to find Mi-Young and take her back because there's a group of men that need
her to access the vault with the nuclear weapons her dad had made, since the lock can only be
opened by her iris. She isn't sure if he can trust him after he tried to shoot her ten years ago,
but Cheol-Seong says that wasn't true, he was on her side and he had been backstabbed by the others
like it happened here on the plane. Their talk gets interrupted by Hyun-Min, who suddenly enters
the room through the ceiling shaft. With his help, everyone is released and gets back on business:
Seok-Hwan returns to the server room to regain control of the plane's autopilot mode and stop
it from falling while Hyun-Min turns off all the lights. Then, Mi-Young and Cheol-Seung go back to
the passenger area to take on Ha-Rim's men. The fights are fairly equal, but whenever the bad
guys would gain the upper hand, the passengers would help our heroes by hitting the men with
whatever object they could find nearby. Thanks to everyone's support, they defeat the men and
capture Ha-Rim. Now the whole family can reunite, but the trouble is far from over:
pretending to comfort her, Keuk-Seong gives Na-ri the teddy bear and grabs her as hostage.
Then he shoots Cheol-Seung before confessing he was the man that killed Mi-Young's father,
and he will kill her daughter as well if she doesn't come with him. Seok-Hwan tries to hurt
him with one of the tasers from the plane, but it doesn't work, so Keuk-Seong shoots him as well.
Mi-Young admits she has no other choice than to accept his terms, so she hugs Na-ri goodbye before
putting on the parachute. Keuk-Seong forcers the plane door open and Mi-Young gives Na-ri a signal
to throw out her teddy bear. She had whispered these instructions to her when she hugged her,
and now, she pushes Keuk-Seong out too as the teddy bear explodes at a good distance
away from the plane, taking Keuk-Seong with it. Thankfully, Seok-Hwan is alive after all thanks
to a bulletproof vest Cheol-Seung had shared with him before they separated to execute the plan,
so the family reunites once again for good this time. Speaking of Cheol-Seung, he grabs
the parachute and, after wishing the family to be happy and have a good life, jumps off the plane to
return so the authorities can't get him when they land. All the enemy agents are tied to their seats
and the national security service is contacted to inform them they're ok now. The pilot receives
orders to return to South Korea to process what happened, but Seok-Hwan can't accept this,
he wants to go to Hawaii. Pil-joon doesn't approve of this idea and tries to pull rank, but at that
moment, Hyun-Min finds the taser on the floor and while checking it out, he presses the button and
accidentally knocks Pil-Joon out. Ahn Sera reminds everyone that if it wasn't for Mi-Young they'd be
all dead, so the captain changes his mind to grant her wish and changes the course to Hawaii, telling
the government they're low on fuel as an excuse. As soon as they arrive in Hawaii, the family goes
to have fun on the beach, and Seok-Hwan gifts Mi-Young a ring so they can renew their vows.
He also admits he's been saving money for ten years for this trip and the winning cap had
been faked by him. Furious, Mi-Young chases him around the beach for having spent so much money
while Na-ri relaxes under the sun. Meanwhile, the plane has been emptied except for one person: the
nervous man, who is finally waking up and finding hundreds of missed calls and messages asking him
to take care of the hijacking situation. A couple of weeks later, tv cameras show up at Mi-Young's
shop. To thank her for saving the plane, she's being gifted a free trip to Disneyland. This
excites Na-ri, but her parents freak out because they don't want to get on a plane anytime soon.