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Unmasked - A Thriller That lacks thrill
First of all _ it's common there are several factors that influence our decision to watch a particular drama or movie. To me 3 types of factors made me watch Unmasked.
1) Cast
2) Story
3) Genre
But this drama underperformed in catching up with those factors. I'm not going to talk too deep about this drama. Here are my thoughts on those factors.
1) STORY - Story revolves around Investigative Journalism. One of the fresh Story concepts in Kdrama. Naturally the audience expects something unique, fresh from it or at the least solid entertainment. The story holds great potential to explore diff compelling cases to deal within the realm of Investigative Journalism. But the Cases they showed most of us already watched in previous diff dramas. That's the main drawback of the drama _ while watching these Crime cases at some point we feel " ah I have watched this type of crime cases before ". EP 1 to EP 6 are good, and Who is Trigger Man ( Not him ) but Who ! this point somehow one of the reasons to continued watching the drama.
2) GENRE - Thriller, Comedy, Mystery enough reasons to binge watch for fans of these genres. But what if it lacks thriller elements and little to not scope for the mystery ? - Then the story may feel dull and fails to keep viewers engaged. It can feel predictable and viewers might lose interest if the suspense is not strong enough.
At the least give us some genre based story elements in the drama.
3) CAST - a) Jung Sung II, he was one of the reasons I watched this drama. I watched him supporting roles till The Glory, he proved he can pull off the main roles too with Glory. He was the main lead in this drama I was not expecting more from his character because this is not a character scope drama for him. But i was surprised by his transformation as Han Do, they showed him much younger than the Glory and in the first 6 eps his character is going with drama flow but when the main case starts to Investigate his character slowly gets low off from the screen. But still whenever he was on the screen it was good and entertaining to watch along with Kim Hye Soo. But it's really disappointing not using his full potential just like Glory makers. He can do more if they wrote more for him in this drama.
b) Kim Hye Soo - I know her from Signal, I agree she is good actress. But to me not this drama, her character lacked in some aspects also better in some ways. I found it annoying in some scenes but in the latest eps her character is shaped into an emotional character. It's good to see some emotional development in the last but not in the first.
And the rest of the other supporting actors performances are good but again here also some characters like Gi-Ho feel annoyed and made to skip some of his scenes. But one supporting role good written and the actress is also given excellent performance _ Choo Ja Hyun as Cho Hae Won. Her character is very little but at the same time it's a story turning character. Just another little badass female character ;)
Crew Departments -
Soundtrack is just Okie, no big space for the to talk about the Cinematography. Some Good VFX.
Final Talk :-
Director & Writer Yoo Seon Dong who is the director of hit drama Bad & Crazy disappointed this time with Unmasked. If he give the strong stories ( crime cases ) in the drama then who knows it might get different result. The pace is suitable for the flow of drama but what good when the actually suspense & thriller lacks in the story. Even though the story follows same tamplate - one main case is running in the background and different cases ( stories) evolves and somehow unfold to main case story. However The drama missed the mark delivering the solid entertainment for those expecting a binge worthy thriller.
1) Cast
2) Story
3) Genre
But this drama underperformed in catching up with those factors. I'm not going to talk too deep about this drama. Here are my thoughts on those factors.
1) STORY - Story revolves around Investigative Journalism. One of the fresh Story concepts in Kdrama. Naturally the audience expects something unique, fresh from it or at the least solid entertainment. The story holds great potential to explore diff compelling cases to deal within the realm of Investigative Journalism. But the Cases they showed most of us already watched in previous diff dramas. That's the main drawback of the drama _ while watching these Crime cases at some point we feel " ah I have watched this type of crime cases before ". EP 1 to EP 6 are good, and Who is Trigger Man ( Not him ) but Who ! this point somehow one of the reasons to continued watching the drama.
2) GENRE - Thriller, Comedy, Mystery enough reasons to binge watch for fans of these genres. But what if it lacks thriller elements and little to not scope for the mystery ? - Then the story may feel dull and fails to keep viewers engaged. It can feel predictable and viewers might lose interest if the suspense is not strong enough.
At the least give us some genre based story elements in the drama.
3) CAST - a) Jung Sung II, he was one of the reasons I watched this drama. I watched him supporting roles till The Glory, he proved he can pull off the main roles too with Glory. He was the main lead in this drama I was not expecting more from his character because this is not a character scope drama for him. But i was surprised by his transformation as Han Do, they showed him much younger than the Glory and in the first 6 eps his character is going with drama flow but when the main case starts to Investigate his character slowly gets low off from the screen. But still whenever he was on the screen it was good and entertaining to watch along with Kim Hye Soo. But it's really disappointing not using his full potential just like Glory makers. He can do more if they wrote more for him in this drama.
b) Kim Hye Soo - I know her from Signal, I agree she is good actress. But to me not this drama, her character lacked in some aspects also better in some ways. I found it annoying in some scenes but in the latest eps her character is shaped into an emotional character. It's good to see some emotional development in the last but not in the first.
And the rest of the other supporting actors performances are good but again here also some characters like Gi-Ho feel annoyed and made to skip some of his scenes. But one supporting role good written and the actress is also given excellent performance _ Choo Ja Hyun as Cho Hae Won. Her character is very little but at the same time it's a story turning character. Just another little badass female character ;)
Crew Departments -
Soundtrack is just Okie, no big space for the to talk about the Cinematography. Some Good VFX.
Final Talk :-
Director & Writer Yoo Seon Dong who is the director of hit drama Bad & Crazy disappointed this time with Unmasked. If he give the strong stories ( crime cases ) in the drama then who knows it might get different result. The pace is suitable for the flow of drama but what good when the actually suspense & thriller lacks in the story. Even though the story follows same tamplate - one main case is running in the background and different cases ( stories) evolves and somehow unfold to main case story. However The drama missed the mark delivering the solid entertainment for those expecting a binge worthy thriller.
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