Melodramatic but boring. Even so, the final scene had me crying. Best thing about the film is the ML's lanky height.
That weak, timid, pouty/mousy, squeeky-voice screaming thing Japanese actresses do to express anger and/or sadness is so very annoying. I have seen it so many times in Japanese shows that I assume it must be a real thing in Japan. Oh, they also weakly strike at whoever they're mad at or who is consoling them, with their hands and arms, making soft, little fists, while squealing. ugh
This one has improved with each additional episode. Even the wounds look real. :)
Lord, the look on Minase Jin's face in the last scene when he said "I dont' want to..." Great acting. I was totally drawn in. Wish I could resist watching each ep as it comes out so I could binge the whole thing, but that won't be happening. I'm too eager to see what happens next.
LSK is a god, as usual. Let's get that out of the way.
For me, the movie is jumbled and confusing, replete with flashforwards and flashbacks and flash somewhere-in-betweens that make it impossible to understand in one viewing. While I am a fan of rewatching my fave flicks, it seems a movie ought to reveal at least most of itself in one sitting, because that is all most of the audience will get...ever.
The only upside of the obscurity is that it occasionally distracted me from the unconvincing wig LSK was forced to wear.
It was not a relationship; it was an OBSESSION. That's the point. He was suffering from major PTSD, on meds, and…
Please quote me where I said you being unimpressed with this film "bothers" me. Thanks. I'm not impressed with the movie either. It's weird how so many MDLers make assumptions about other commenters based on their own insecurities
The couple's interaction being more of an obsession than anything else was NOT "obvious" to you or you would have worded your original comment differently.
Sigh...two of the best-ever Korean actors together and I'm sadly underwhelmed. :P
I respect Lee Je Hoon and Koo Kyo Hwan a great deal, and both are sensational in these parts. However, the plot is so full of absurd improbabilities, impossibilities, convenient coincidences, and many other cliche near-escapes and last-second rescues throughout, that I was pulled out of it repeatedly. I finally gave up and watched the last third for the thrill of two massively talented craftsmen working their magic on screen.
KKH is fascinating and entertaining to watch fill a character with specific tics, mannerisms, and nuances that make the people he portrays feel REAL. Also, he plays bitchy/butch off each other but together, like no one else I've seen. He's going to be a big star.
LJH does his usual fantastic work here, but the material is far beneath him.
I wish the two of them had pooled their influence as known names to force corrections to all the script silliness that made it impossible to take seriously. How many machine guns firing at once in a straight line at two guys running directly ahead of them for minutes on end, does it take before someone takes a bullet? lol Not nearly as many as we're asked to believe here. And that's just ONE implausible. There are hundreds more.
7/10 because it stars LJH and KKH. Otherwise, 5/10.
I just realized there's an actor with amazing acting skills named Koo Kyoo Hwan. He delivers an outstanding performance…
Yup. He is an up and comer. One of the best Korean actors I've seen. Check out the series "D.P." on Netflix, or elsewhere online, two seasons. It is excellent.
So because his mother "collapsed," he went back in the closet, later married a woman whose life he will ruin, had a kid, and will spend the rest of his life hooking up anonymously on Grindr behind her back...got it. Thing is, he's far too decent a person to do that to a woman; thus I don't buy that ending at all.
Futoshi's ending was much better and more realistic, and in keeping with Japanese BL conventions, a tad bittersweet. Did anyone else catch that fake-ass kiss on the cheek near the end? His lips did not even touch Futoshi's face. These weird-ass BL actors and directors who keep making BLs despite being uncomfortable with normal displays of affection are annoying af.
Good parts. Lame parts. OK parts. Not nearly as crazy-good as it could have been.
Everyone here is forgetting the dude had severe psychological symptoms as a result of PTSD when the movie began…
Where did I say "sex addiction and lust are not two different things?" You mistook my meaning. I meant to say that lust is an element of sex addiction, not that they are the same thing separately.
Another MDL trait is that when commenters run out of ways to justify what they wrote, they accuse the other commenter of being "emotional" or "angry" or "not having a life," whatever. Cuts no ice with me.
You sound super emotional in this last reply. Please calm yourself if you choose to reply again.
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Best thing about the film is the ML's lanky height.
That weak, timid, pouty/mousy, squeeky-voice screaming thing Japanese actresses do to express anger and/or sadness is so very annoying. I have seen it so many times in Japanese shows that I assume it must be a real thing in Japan. Oh, they also weakly strike at whoever they're mad at or who is consoling them, with their hands and arms, making soft, little fists, while squealing. ugh
5/10
This one has improved with each additional episode. Even the wounds look real. :)
Lord, the look on Minase Jin's face in the last scene when he said "I dont' want to..." Great acting. I was totally drawn in. Wish I could resist watching each ep as it comes out so I could binge the whole thing, but that won't be happening. I'm too eager to see what happens next.
7/10
For me, the movie is jumbled and confusing, replete with flashforwards and flashbacks and flash somewhere-in-betweens that make it impossible to understand in one viewing. While I am a fan of rewatching my fave flicks, it seems a movie ought to reveal at least most of itself in one sitting, because that is all most of the audience will get...ever.
The only upside of the obscurity is that it occasionally distracted me from the unconvincing wig LSK was forced to wear.
Meh.
7/10
One thing it doesn't look like is a self-censored BL.
And apparently, you are literally a dunce from somewhere she's too embarrassed to claim. lol
Nvm, you're a dunce.
The couple's interaction being more of an obsession than anything else was NOT "obvious" to you or you would have worded your original comment differently.
I respect Lee Je Hoon and Koo Kyo Hwan a great deal, and both are sensational in these parts. However, the plot is so full of absurd improbabilities, impossibilities, convenient coincidences, and many other cliche near-escapes and last-second rescues throughout, that I was pulled out of it repeatedly. I finally gave up and watched the last third for the thrill of two massively talented craftsmen working their magic on screen.
KKH is fascinating and entertaining to watch fill a character with specific tics, mannerisms, and nuances that make the people he portrays feel REAL. Also, he plays bitchy/butch off each other but together, like no one else I've seen. He's going to be a big star.
LJH does his usual fantastic work here, but the material is far beneath him.
I wish the two of them had pooled their influence as known names to force corrections to all the script silliness that made it impossible to take seriously. How many machine guns firing at once in a straight line at two guys running directly ahead of them for minutes on end, does it take before someone takes a bullet? lol Not nearly as many as we're asked to believe here. And that's just ONE implausible. There are hundreds more.
7/10 because it stars LJH and KKH. Otherwise, 5/10.
6/10
So because his mother "collapsed," he went back in the closet, later married a woman whose life he will ruin, had a kid, and will spend the rest of his life hooking up anonymously on Grindr behind her back...got it. Thing is, he's far too decent a person to do that to a woman; thus I don't buy that ending at all.
Futoshi's ending was much better and more realistic, and in keeping with Japanese BL conventions, a tad bittersweet. Did anyone else catch that fake-ass kiss on the cheek near the end? His lips did not even touch Futoshi's face. These weird-ass BL actors and directors who keep making BLs despite being uncomfortable with normal displays of affection are annoying af.
Good parts. Lame parts. OK parts. Not nearly as crazy-good as it could have been.
6.5/10
If you blocked me why am I able to write you?
Another MDL trait is that when commenters run out of ways to justify what they wrote, they accuse the other commenter of being "emotional" or "angry" or "not having a life," whatever. Cuts no ice with me.
You sound super emotional in this last reply. Please calm yourself if you choose to reply again.