MidnightReader

This movie balanced romance, action, and character development well. They didn't try to overdo it with the characters, and our supporting cast was easily distinguished from the extras and our main characters. We also got enough time with them before shit hit the fan to actually make you care a bit about them. I will admit I didn't like Kim In Hae at first because of her attitude & how she just left her daughter at home alone, but she grew on me. The romance was attraction, and you can see by the end it could become something more, but it takes up a very small part of the story and acts more as Kang Ji Goo's motivation to stay in touch with Kim In Hae & her daughter.

I've seen better action movies, but it's not lacking, and the story focuses more on the medical & political stuff, which it needed to do. I wish it had gone more into making the cure, but it also really didn't have time to do that. The pacing was great, and my attention never drifted.

What stood out the most to me in this movie was how inhuman most of the government people were. The president of Korea was the only decent politician, and 98% of those in the army were straight-up assholes from the very beginning, treating the people of Bundang as less than animals. Most of the things they were doing, whether under orders or not, were simply heartless. I've seen a lot of movies & dramas where those in power treat others like shit, but this was at a whole new level of cold-heartedness and corruption. A lot of their actions were petty and just out of pure meanness. They didn't have to treat them like that; they chose to. I would have punched so many people, especially Snyder, so I have to give the characters props for self-control.

This movie isn't one that made a lasting impression, and I won't be thinking about it for hours, let alone days later, but it is a solid movie, and I can see myself rewatching it in the future.