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Mediocre spy film pretending to be epic and clever
Sigh. I went into this with high hopes after seeing the two reviews on here, but this really is over-rated.The film begins with an assassination attempt on the South Korean president by the North; the South's intelligence agencies are the Domestic and International units and both are assigned to flush out the North's spy, who is believed to be a mole in either outfit. Cue lots of twists and violence, minus any real tension or the need for us to even remotely give a shit what happens to anybody.
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Overly long and convoluted
I dropped this series a little bit into the 9th episode, when I found myself simply not caring about any part of it any more - not even the "big reveal"/ending!This series was recommended to me by another viewer here on MDL and, having never heard of it, I was surprised to find it in my region on Rakuten Viki's freeview list.
I'll skip explaining what it's all about because there are so many other reviews here already, so let's get down to it:
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The first episode was very so-so and, up until the final scene, didn't spark any interest in me. Suddenly though, I was pretty eager to see more.
The 2nd and 3rd episodes had plenty of action and kept my attention throughout, however, the tell-tale signs of bad writing were in there:
- the ultra vague character interactions
- the needless flashbacks as if the writers think we're too stupid to keep up with their high intellect
- the amount of pointless characters who just took up screentime
After a certain villain who seemed like a main threat mysteriously disappeared though, this went to sh*t!
The action really fizzled out, the endless talking droned on and on each episode, characters kept coming and going yet not offering anything to the plot and even the cute female lead just became REALLY grating and annoying (she's also a terrible actress, but whatever)!
The MC kept his charm - or lack thereof - throughout, but, once this one stalled, it never managed to get a jump back to life, tossing in car chases for chuckles and endless amounts of vacuous banter like we're supposed to be enthralled by not giving a crap!
So, yeah, rightfully dropped. Really, really not recommended.
P.S. I'm sure there will be plenty of comments on how I didn't understand this or how the female lead is amazing (probably in something else - she was undeniably hammy and over-acting in this), but there was nothing deep to misunderstand. THIS SERIES WAS PLAIN DULL.
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Power Rangers for older teens
Wow, this was horrible!I'd heard of the programme before and, being a fan of fighting films, TV shows and comics, I tracked down the first series that started it all... and it was awful!
The first two episodes are, frankly, an absolute mess. Overly ambitious in the worst possible way - the story is all over the place and makes little sense - the fight scenes, which should be the real star of the show, aren't very good, the budget is clearly low and the entire cast is chosen solely based on looks (you won't find any talent here!)... but, given how many spin-offs this has had, I figured I was missing something or that it simply improved exponentially, so I continued.
After the 4th episode, I really couldn't suffer any more of this trash.
It's supposed to be a hip programme about men fighting but it's more like the live-action version of an anime aimed at 8 year olds, with leads who look more like Korean femi-boy pop star wannabes than hard men!
Dropped.
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Holy cow, Batman! This was TERRIBLE!
I came across this and, intrigued by the ridiculous title, I clicked on it. Whoa!The first thing anyone notices is just how cheap this looks - if there were any professional lights used, I'd have been surprised. This really looks amateur level; I'm sure people could shoot better material with just a mobile phone (no additional lenses).
The series starts with a groovy intro - it's kind of like Power Rangers for 6 year old girls who also like to build models - but then the "drama" kicked in... totally listless and full of exposition.
The lead character then goes home from school, pops into a model shop and is given a blue haired chick to build, along with a Nerf-style toy gun, by the shop's sketchy owner, who, frankly, I was expecting to ask for payment in her used underwear!
The girl then goes home, builds the model and... DAMN! We get some really crazy split screen, where she builds in one and dances around singing in the other, in a bizarre outfit.
It's just crazy.
The next day in school, the female lead (it seems to be an all-girls school) sees two other girls and then finds herself along with them in some kind of paintball scenario. Honestly, I turned it off about 30 seconds after this.
Awful.
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Predictable and lost me at the pro-LGBT flashback
3 dudes "isekai" into The Cube... which was a cheap Canadian film from around 20 years ago.Oh no, wait, it's not, The Cube, it's kind of like a cross between Squid Game and that manga where they "isekai" onto rooftops and have to survive.
Okay, so that manga for this was before Squid Game... but many will call it, "Japanese Squid Game" anyway, I'm sure.
So yeah, the 3 dudes take part in games or they'll die, but being in the games means they're most likely to die regardless - it's all kind of pointless but mildly entertaining until it becomes the eventual, Lord of the Flies, that all these kind of things morph into (I mean: COME ON! The Beach was a CRAP BOOK and even worse film, and a total rip off of Lord of the Flies, but then this crap even has a resort everyone stays in that's called, The Beach?!).
And then I dumped it because it offended the Hell out of me that I'm supposed to believe the hottest girl in the whole programme is a "trap" (lady-boy/gender-bender/she-male/faggobot - whatever you want to call them)?
Men in dresses are NOT cool! They certainly don't look like XXX (I won't spoil it by revealing the actress) and Netflix seriously needs to lose its LGBT agenda, which - along with the Cuties fiasco - is the reason they lost almost 50% of their US customers in the first place!
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