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Interesting premise, well-done development, bad ending.

I feel the premise itself led to more interesting plot beats, and made the antagonist role shine very much which it's nice, considering the cartoon-ish villains that usually appears in kdramas. However, I don't know if it was a mix of the script or if it was the lead actor performance, but the lead character was... Underwhelming.
I connected more with Mrs. Oh and Sargent Cho(?) than with him, even though his backstory was explored. The actor didn't sold me enough to be an ex mercenary and a police who hates guns. I mean. That would be easy to do. The lead actor doesn't have enough presence to sell it. The issue with his character build, in the script, was that he was too one dimensional: he wanted to stop the guns, yes, but does that mean he must pull some moves that doesn't makes sense (like the hug with the boy at the end, wtf?)? Or that his trauma very much was screaming white saviour (and guess what? His backstory involves Middle East).
Frankly, it was a very much cop propaganda, that doesn't even explore how guns are only a symptom of a global mindset that classifies every country in first or third world countries, and this involvement with police corruption, over-militarism, and government vs narco-state control.
Also, a lot of the lead's fighting scenes were so cartoon-ish that it made me recall John Wick by how outlandish they were and the choreography was too antiquated to be part of the narrative of the series. What happened in there?
Moon Baek was the best part of this kdrama. Wish the ending was better specially because it awfully clashes with the tone of the rest of the series, but kdramas will never deliver strong enough in this aspect. Maybe if this was a urban fantasy a la Chainsaw Man, with Moon Baek being the Gun God, or that the ending said, instead, that nothing was solved even with guns out of the picture. If you're going to show a potential reality, finish it with a realistic ending.

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