The women discover the guns and initially believe them to be fakes, but after accidentally shooting out the car's back window and attracting the attention of local police, they are forced to continue their journey on foot.

Along the way they are joined by Jin-ah, a sales clerk, and Young-mi, a dabang girl, and after several robberies the quartet end up being pursued by the police and the gangsters who want their guns back.

Leong was also critical of writer/director Shin Seung-soo's attempted social commentary, and found the only memorable aspect to be a jokey reference to Attack the Gas Station involving Lee Yo-won and Park Yeong-gyu, who appeared in both films.

[3] In a review for Koreanfilm.org, V. Naldi commented that the film "tries so hard to be cool, slick and funny that it forgets to take care of the fundamentals, like a script that flows well, or engaging characters", but also that despite "all its flaws, A.F.R.I.K.A.

[4] BeyondHollywood.com described the film as "a comedy with pretensions of being something more", and criticized the writing for being "not strong enough to accommodate its ambitions" and making the central characters "too one-dimensional".