William Chan did well in this series. Despite his bad boy look, he pulled off this hero character very well. He’s got the suave, the charm and the built. Chemistry with Sandra Ma was just okay for me. Could be better. Sandra Ma had much better chemistry with Wallace Huo in the other show.
Great villain as always from Liu Yijun.
My scoring is because the series is too long for a modern action drama. Would have been better capped at 30-40 episodes.
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What I don’t like
*FLASHBACKS!!! The flash backs had me going crazy. If they excluded the flashbacks they could have saved like 5 episodes.
*nosey people. Their friendships were cool but in the real world police missions and investigations shouldn’t be intertwined with civilians. They were just all over the place trying to save each other. It was weird.
*the romance. Started out really well but somewhere in the middle it felt forced/cringey and there was no chemistry. I found myself rooting for the 2nd male lead instead.
*the last episode “incident” could have been avoided. That person did not deserve to go that way.
*the ending was a “ok what just happened” moment. It made no sense at all.
In conclusion although there was so many unnecessary dragging scenes in the middle. This was an enjoyable and unpredictable drama. Give a try and keep the skip button near!
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Amazing.
I first started this series thinking I would only watch a few episodes and then drop it but the more I watched, the more I was hooked.Every episode had me interested in everything, the story was so interesting that I binge watched all the episodes in 3-4 days. The story had me in my emotions for many episodes. I was so curious throughout the whole time and had questions that needed answers quick so I watched episode after episode and finally by the end, I was satisfied. Only reason I didn’t give a 10 for Story is because I noticed some things that could’ve been made better, some of the reveals were good but I thought of some ways that it could’ve been better and also about some parts that would’ve been better if left out and done in a more normal way.
The story was amazing but the acting by the main leads were amazing too, the story itself wouldn’t have made me cry but the emotions I felt through the painful expressions that the main leads had made me cry in some scenes. Didn’t make it a 10 due to how the action scenes near the end were shot.
Overall, I would rewatch this all over again in the future and it was truly amazing but only had a few small points where it could’ve improved on and it would be perfect in my eyes but other then those I loved this.
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William Chan, I applaud you!
I need to thank the writer(s) for bringing awareness to Drugs and how drugs are exported in and out of countries. Thank You! A lot of people do not realize that the drug "Angel" does exist in this world. I've known it to be called "Angel Dust" or PCP. I hope that we can stop those who create these drugs and eradicate the existence of hallucinogenic drugs that possibly can eliminate Human Life.William Chan, portrayed his character as I knew he would. His talents over exceed himself. People when you watch this I guarantee you that you will need, a tissue or handkerchief. William Chan plays a very believable part of the character he is portraying. I just recently re-watched "Lost Love in Times" and compared the two characters being played are so different from one another. For me, that means William Chan does put himself and his persona into these characters yet makes them so different. Kudos to this awesome actor and one of my top ten favs.
Man, where do I start with the cast? The whole cast did their part in playing the characters in this drama. A'se is one that I had to do my research on. I applaud his acting skills in playing this character. The chemistry between Sandra Ma and William Chun was kind of iffy for me but it worked for this storyline. Every movie or drama series has low points and the low points of this Drama Series were not many but made their point across the stage making my emotions flare in anger, joy, and tears. That's how great the cast was. Thanking all the cast, visual effects, writer(s), Producer(s), make-up, and costumes team. Very job well done.
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Suspend All Your Disbelief, And Then Some More
This... is pretty awful. There's not a single character or plot point that is believable.NONSENSE PLOT AND MALE LEAD
The ML becoming super strong and well trained like an assassin after being left alone in a cage for 4 years where he was able to observe and imitate drug cartel training is... entirely unrealistic to say the least (you mean to tell me that he became an expert in hand-to-hand combat without every sparring with another human being? And he learned how to quickly assemble and aim a gun in record time without ever holding a gun - just by imagining it?). And then after the memory loss, every time he gets into a fight (and there are sooooo many of them), his fighting abilities download in memory form like a video game - way too cartoonish and surreal.
And then there are the villains who are completely irrational; they seem nerfed, petty, and appear to have endless free time. There were way too many fights in the first few episodes simply because the ML thwarted their plans once and they kept trying to gang up on him in a fight and vent/get their revenge (like once okay maybe, but they went after him like twice per episode for a while there to no avail, as if the only purpose for their stubborn revenge was to create circumstances for the cops to arrive and cross paths with the ML, and paint him in a negative light in their eyes).
NPC SIDE CHARACTERS
And then some characters do some completely out of left field stuff, and the way that the others just brush it off as if it is not a big deal is alarming. Like an heiress climbs to the top of a skyscraper building complex because she's sad she got dumped, then she nearly falls off the building and the FL and ML rush to save her in the nick of time (and their reflexes, upper body strength, and defying of time and gravity in this scene is totally unrealistic and unbelievable to say the least). BUT THEN - they just bring the girl down and take her to the police station casually, and only the FL feels like this suicidal girl needs to be dealt with or lectured in the slightest - everyone else thinks that she should just go on her merry way, no contacting her family, putting her on suicide watch, obtaining medical/psychological examinations. Her friends are not worried for her either, but are instead like, "let's throw a party, we heard you found a new love interest!" Like HELLO??? Was this scene really that inconsequential? It can only be so if these major plot points are only done for the sole purpose of making the ML look like a hero and giving the CP more chances to interact. All other side characters are 2-dimensional, so of course none of their actions are met with the amount of gravity they deserve.
BAD ACTION SCENES
Another gripe is the unrealistic action scenes (the girl loses her grip on the FL's hand and begins to fall before the ML lunges forward, yet he has time to jump down to a lower beam, THEN jump across to the adjacent beam, AND THEN grab the girl's waste before she can fall even TWO FEET... ok, sure. ).
POOR VISUALS
Then the last thing is the OVERALL UNATTRACTIVENESS of everything I'm seeing on screen. Many of the scenes have poor color grading, and the characters end up looking super pale but also super green, like they are sickly (or aliens). And the ML is styled TERRIBLY. The actor himself is already not good-looking, and then in the first few scenes he has long hair, but not a cute long haircut. And its evenly long around the head, so that the front strands are longer than the back, and the hair falls to the sides of his face in a middle part, looking like an emo teenager who wants to hide his face. And on top of that, with the thin facial hair, the best way I can describe it is looking like Vasco from Lookism (which is not attractive, but more like creepy, doofus ahjusshi). So I thought he could only look better once he cut his hair after returning to China - AND I WAS WRONG. They give him this hideous bowl cut (what's with these "mom cut my hair" teenage boy looks - are they doing it to make him look younger because his character is supposed to be 27 but he looks like he's 40). I think he looked best in the flashbacks of him celebrating his dad's birthday when he was a teenager, he needs to LOSE THE FACIAL HAIR and style his hair up, not down. And when you look that unattractive, you should at least be a great actor to make up for it. The ML's portrayal is very wooden, no emotion, no expressiveness with the eyes, no sub-context, no micro-expressions, - his acting is like watching paint dry. Ma Si Chun looks BEAUTIFUL AS ALWAYS (like her eyes, her nose, her lips, how can one look so angelic?), and even though they over did it with her whitewashing (she and ML straight up look like they are different races), I can't deny how beautiful she is. And of course her acting is good too, the only cringe moments the FL has are when they give her an excessive amount of flashbacks (but that's not her acting, that's the post-editing, making her character more lovesick than is believable).
flashbacks, Flashbacks, FLASHBACKS
Also the LAST last thing - TOO MANY FLASHBACKS. Every fight scene is filled with flashbacks galore, and every time the CP parts ways with each other, they have to give them at least one flashback scene to show that "I've been thinking about you", "I'm probably falling in love right now".
CONCLUSION
These writers are so bad at writing a convincing plot, and the producers are even worse at cutting the scenes together in a way that produces good storytelling. I kept trying to find comments on the Youtube clips for each episode hoping someone else felt the same way I did, but all the fans are clearly delulu. I'm dropping it after episode 9, I'm giving it a 4.5 because I can't bare to give one of my most favorite actresses (Ma Si Chun) a low rating, but if it weren't for her this would probably be a 1.0/2.0.
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Story: it show illegal sale of gangsters group in golden triangle of Thailand (story show Burma but I did not see any signboard or poster in burmese language nd people speaking burmese)
Action: It is really fantastic
Music: the drama have few OST theme song but have corresponding background music
Rewatch vaule: the drama is currently on air
I will look the drama to the end. If you want to look the drama in eng sub, you can download the video at dramacool site.
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