Hyper Knife

Only One Word - Wasted POTENTIAL !

Good Story needs solid execution, even if the execution comes second aspect, that story still demands a good storytelling. Hyper Knife had all elements - good story, intriguing plot, strong actors to become good entertainer. But as the episodes progressed the drama flattered in its core delivery. Let's see the Good & Failed tale of Hyper Knife.



I'm one of them who watched this drama for Park Eun Bin and for the story. The first 2 episodes were promising with exploring - Illigal Black Market surgeries, hidden past the Jung Se Ok. But after those 2 episodes the drama got messy and lost the momentum

Screenwriter Kim Sun Hee tried to craft Jung Se-Ok as a chilling and psychopathic female lead but the character failed to deliver that dark and unsettling vibes. In fact after the first 2 episodes she ends up being more annoying than intimidating. And to be clear - this is not a critique of Park Eun Bin's acting, she is a great actor. She performs well, as always but the way her character is written feels shallow and inconsistent. Characterization of her role doens't align with expectations set by the storyline.

The same goes for Veteran actor Sul Kyung Gu's role as Choi Deok Hui. His performance is great but the character itself falls short and doesn't tap into his full potential.

Hyper Knife is supposed to be a Medical Thriller, but this is where the drama starts to unravel. The Writer Kim Sun Hee and Director Kim Jung Hyun failed to merge these two genres convincingly. At times, it feels like a pure medical drama, other times it leans into the crime thriller boundary. But as a cohesive medical thriller ?? It never quite finds the right balance.

Hyper Knife as Good tale

• Great Acting from actors.
• Story, Plot.
• Medical Theme.

Hyper Knife as Failed Tale-

• Strong actors but not strong characters.
• Medical Crime Thriller becomes separate not one itself - Genre Execution.
• Poor Execution.
• Mid-Story collapse.

NOTE - This review is purely based on my personal watching experience. If you want to watch Hyper Knife, watch it and form your own opinion. You might see something I didn't.

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Messy plot. Great acting from the leads

It took me 10 days to finish this short 8-episode series. That is slow for a thriller series. I gave it 5 out of 10 points mainly for the acting of our leading actors. They are both versatile actors and nailed their roles as 2 genius psychopaths who completely understand each other’s mind and thoughts, and can do anything for the other. If Park Eun Bin and Sul Kyung Gu weren’t the leads, this series would be ranging from 1 to 4 points for me at best.

As for the plot, it was bad in terms of both crime thriller and medical genre. It had potential and was exciting at first, then everything started to get messy after 2 or 3 episodes. It's a mixing hot pot where all the ingredients and spices are not combined together well. Both the thriller and medical parts are very shallow and lacking. Everything felt separate and disconnected.

There are too many characters, and I found most of them unnecessary and contributing nothing to the plot. I don't understand what is the point of adding them to the plot which is already very messy and confusing without them. Except for the leads, I found almost every scene of other characters very annoying. All of them are shallow and they lack motives for their actions. The leads are crazy psychopaths so their actions are not normal and they don't need explanations, but the people around them surely do. How can everyone around the leads accept their crime actions so easily? Seriously, no one ever questions or gets scared of them for a little bit when they discover the leads have murdered other people brutally! Instead, they just accept it as if it was an obvious thing, and still follow and support them. Does that happen in real life? Maybe, if all of us were psychopaths like the leads.

The two characters that I found most annoying are the corrupt policeman and the random doctor coming back from another country to meet the female lead and 'challenge' her on a dual surgery operation on her mentor. They are very tiring to watch and they appear a lot in the second half of the series. Like a lot of other characters, I don't feel their roles are necessary. One man is a corrupt policeman, so obviously he did a lot of bad things and he also had a dark and shady vibe. But he has a lot of unnecessary and disturbing scenes. One of those are his eating scenes with very detailed close-up shots. OMG, it really pissed me off to watch those scenes. It really tortured me every time the guy was chewing his food. I don't understand why the director kept adding these scenes. They should have given more screen time to the leads or improved the messy plot instead.

As for the random doctor, who is supposed to be highly experienced and talented, but his actions are very unprofessional as a doctor. The way he talked about performing surgery makes me feel as if he never cared about his patient but only cared about how it was a 'challenge' for him. To make things worse, he even disclosed his patient's personal health information to third parties without their consent. And he did it so naturally, like how people share and discuss with others about a random story they have found on the internet. It's an illegal act as a doctor, while he was introduced as a famous talented doctor coming from a western country. This is one of the biggest flaws in this series that really annoy me. I can't let this pass, so I can't rate this series higher than average.

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