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Really disappointing
The Admiral is one of my favourite Korean flicks, so I was waiting for this since I saw it announced, a little over a year and a half ago!Sadly, this failed to live up to both its predecessor and my own hype, as I often found myself checking how long was left, since the battle seemed to take forever to start!
Even worse: once the battle came about, it was a one-trick pony... which is all I'll say, as to not ruin it for others.
Yes, the cast is strong, the music is somewhat rousing and the effects are all decent, but the story failed to pull me into both the human elements and the strategic build-up (and massive anti-climax).
I rated this a 6 instead of the 5 I wanted to give it, because I probably judged it (slightly) too harshly, but I'm so disappointed now, I may even go back and watch, The Admiral again, just to brighten my mood.
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It goes downhill very fast after the great start
Based on a short, it's obvious after 15 minutes that this lacked the staying power to ever be a feature - let alone a +3 hours mini-series!The opening shot of this was great. The acting was good as a man turns up at a hotel room to buy the virginity of an 18 year old girl... only, it soon becomes clear that she's a liar and massively over-pricing her services. Renegotiating, my interest began to wane, the girl then leaves the room while the man showers to reveal some kind of massive con operation, and when she re-enters the hotel suite, the man is tied to a gurney, with people standing around bidding for his organs.
This is likely where the short ended - it's also where my interest in this went out the window, as bad acting and dull dialogue crept in. Another 10 minutes of waiting for something to happen, there's the earthquake and the first episode ends.
The second episode features two retards, a constant flickering light and a boat-load of tedium. If the retards weren't annoying enough, the blinking lights caused a headache and all the dumb waiting around to maintain the "one shot" began trying my patience.
20 minutes into the episode, I considered turning it off; when it ended, I had no intention of clicking on the third part.
DROPPED. High production values can't gloss over a crappy script! This really should've stayed a short.
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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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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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