Very enjoyable couple of hours. A quite good caper type movie with some very well done fight scenes. The comedy relief was not overdone as in so many other movies and the bromance was endearing. All in all...just because it fit the bill so well this evening 8/10
A great crime action about a conspiracy where the main lead is not a super hero cop but just a bad cop, a man…
Just my thought, but Kdrama and K movies often need to add in an element of Redemption...that the guilty person is repenting and has turned away from the bad stuff to the 'good side'. He is going to jail, no doubt, but what seems to be far more important to the culture is that the person shows true sorrow and asks for forgiveness. Him seeing her, I think, is a way of showing that. She appears to him for a single moment to let him know she is okay and that gives him the hope that he can be forgiven for his wrongs and that he did something right in his messed up life. It's a poignant moment for those who are watching the movie with the hope that his 'good side' will win out over his 'bad side'. It felt like that for me anyway...that he finally found something in his life that turned him. I have no doubt however, if we were to see him in jail, that he will be wheeling and dealing there still. :)
Is it a fansubbing team? I thought it was done by an official channel (K Plus Asia) which is why I was surprised…
Yeah. K Plus is doing the subs, but the guy from dramacool is ripping and syncing them onto subscene and posting them to their site and he had some kind of computer problem going on.
The subs are incomprehensible, but the story is so short and very self explanatory. Wish I could have just turned off the subs and watched and listened. Surprising how much pansori sounds like the songs of American Indians.
watched this a few years back so I don't remember much about it. But it was a 9.5 for me. Excellent Just took .5 point off due to controversy around it being 'fact' based when the 'facts' are highly fictionalized in this for a bit overly dramatic effect. OK by me! it's the message about freedom and being willing to fight for it that's this movie's strength.
Enjoyed it. But who the heck was Buster? I don't know if it was the choppy editing through the first quarter or third of the movie or the fact I started watching this at midnight when I was already tired. Still, it was fun. I wonder how much those cars cost them. Not cheap! Love the guest/cameo cast too.
What a bunch of schlock. I am here for Ji Hyun Woo. I had such high hopes for him when he got out of the military and accepted the lead in Awl. He was terrific in it. But everything else he has been in since then has been a huge disappointment. This entire drama is preposterous. The cast is either overacting or wooden depending on the person/character. Park Han Byul is noticeably struggling, in all likelihood due to the strain of the huge scandal her husband is currently heavily involved in. I read that she shows up each day and spends the first several minutes bowing and apologizing to everyone on the set. It can't be easy to have so much pressure on her...and she just got married not that long ago and they just had a baby. I wonder if they are going to be bringing Park Ha Na back based on the preview? or, if she isn't available any longer, if this is a way to give PHB a few episodes of rest while she gets her new face, or maybe she will go into a coma and get amnesia (and she will end up in the same bed as Jung Won's first wife while he hovers over her for years), or they'll bring in some other totally random actress, or whatever other ludicrous scenario they are going to make up. I'm 2Xing and my rating for this is plunging weekly.
For me, it's losing its edge. Ahn Nae Sang's character might as well be twirling his moustache, he is so overacting/overdoing his bad guy routine. Of course, there's not much he can do if the part is written so one dimensional and transparent! :( The plot is very simplistic, nothing surprising nor complex. The best thing about it though is that it keeps moving forward. We don't have the typical Good Guys Get Beaten Up in Every Episode until the last 15 minutes of the finale. Our protagonist keeps on trucking and every episode or 2 he wins a battle, then takes on the next one. This also keeps things fresh when there are many smaller issues needing to be fixed in order to fix the whole. It looks like maybe ANS's character will be leaving? (only on ep 8 now). Hoping for good things to come in the war with the real antagonist who is more subtle. And smarter. And more evil...or is he?
HJM showed a whole new, and better (for me), side of herself in Miss Baek. She was terrific in a serious and difficult role, and not a sign of her trademark baby talking. I hope to see 'That' HJM in this drama...but I'm not sure most kdrama fans want her to be less cutesy though. I'm hoping, since there is no comedy tag, that we can see the more adult HJM in this one and that fans will like her that way too. Definitely see Miss Baek. I was so happy for her in that movie. It is always a thrill to see actors try something dark and difficult and succeed so well!
Do you know when Viki will be coming out with the episodes?
well...that's the million dollar question. The first episode is supposedly scheduled to be uploaded in 3 days (according to the viki page). I don't think that means it will be posted subbed, but I don't know. And Viki has been unusually slow on many of its dramas for about a year now. So....I plan to wait and see. If the episodes are slow on this one, then I will keep putting it off and marathon it when it is over. That is a hard decision. I quit marathoning current dramas a few years ago. :( But Tower of Babel was the straw that broke the camel's back for me. The episodes took forever. I think it all depends on how overloaded with other dramas the subbing team is or how short handed. Also, I don't know if the other sites will steal the subs and repost the already aired episodes or just start with whichever one is being subbed when Viki catches up. :(
Well written and, for the most part, well acted, but I am having a real problem with the Pil Sung Character. He is so hysterical all the time! He's been a cop for how long and is acting like this? He carried on, screaming and yelling, demanding they go out and arrest the bad guy, when everyone except an idiot knew there was 0 evidence to support an arrest. He goes in to the shaman house and starts screaming when he sees 2 dead bodies? But he shows up at multiple other grisly murder scenes and is completely calm. Still, the story is enjoyable. Made it through 6 and hope to be caught up tomorrow. Joon Hee is so pretty and I like her in this role. I really liked her in She Was Pretty and Untouchable.
SPOILER: Great ensemble cast and I liked the story.... and the ending...which I understand can ruin it for a lot of people. But this ending makes the discussion about the movie even more thought provoking. Here are a group of friends where the men at least have known each other since they were young children. They are as close as brothers. Yet all of them have kept secrets from each other and from their spouses. Some of the secrets are not so huge, like petty jealousy over the nice home and possessions of Seok Heo and Ye Jin, except when they are aired so suddenly and so publicly they suddenly create pain and rifts between people. Some secrets are huge and are painful in a different way because the secret was not shared when they feel that it should have been. Some secrets are shared between one or two or more and those who find out feel excluded by the others. As the small and medium and large secrets begin to be revealed, the cracks start becoming an earthquake and lifetime relationships are on the verge of breaking. So....was it good to play the game and share so much? I certainly cleared the air. There are relationships which will be better also. But it also broke other relationships and created cracks in others that may fester and destroy them also. Is it worth losing your friend (or your family member) by sharing so much, by being too truthful? There are many memories between these people and many times they have stood by each other in times of trouble. Will all that be destroyed now? Instead of living in ignorance will they spend their lives remembering the terrible way they lost their friends and go through life missing what they lost? Would they have been better off not knowing? The ending wipes the slate. They are back to the beginning and we get to think about what could have been. We see everyone with new eyes and much different opinions about these people than we started out with. The final lines about all of us having Public, Private, and Secret lives is so true. And it is also true that SOME secrets are better staying that way, but other secrets are better shared. A very intriguing movie. I need to find the original Italian one.
https://asianmoviepulse.com/2019/03/film-review-idol-2019-by-lee-su-jin/