Reviews

Let debunk slowly what happen actually.

Since there's lot of reviews but not all of it understanding. So here why, let see the first scene.

This movie the character is purely psychopath who just killing person right. The character shows he have kind of hunting the victim for fun, laughing and like mouse and cat.

I found a comment say ' why didn't the mother end the everything in Police Station? '. Yeah, that's right they can end everything on the spot. But not so fast 'he' know what is happening and try to control the situation. Even how much smart her mother is, she can't exposes that easily. Cause why? she doesn't want her daughter in danger. Her daughter is her priority.

'It doesn't make sense you can't realize there someone on your back'. Actually it possible you didn't realize, I didn't just talk. I can stand behind someone without they realize, breathing slowly and didn't make a big move. But you need to remember she deaf her world is quiet. It can possible when you to focus on phone you can't even realize your friend beside you.

'Why he run to the deaf woman house without calling a police first? '. In that situation you usually have two choices but the reflex usually kick first. He want find that bu*ted first, cause why? He think about her sister safety first that's why be became stupid to safe her with eagerly. He scared if he gonna lose her forever.

About the police, I just to frustrating to see them. So bad.

And at the street you can see Kyeong Mi eagerly need help, but no one is helping right. First you need to see the situation, all of the people there didn't understand what is happening. They make they own assumption by thought that girl might be crazy or something. Since you can just only see she holding knife and her shirt have a blood stain. They feel pity to her, that's why the 3 soldiers help Do Shik, without even realize they help the psychopath. Do Shik know how to act innocently in front of people, how can you know he psychopath when he can act that perfectly fine.

At the end you can see Kyeong Mi decided to act reverse, instead stab him she stab herself. Nothing can defeated him if you still act like naive to him. Cause he can flip that image easily.

I ready to talk if you want more explanation

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Extra level from de start 2 finish !! A NON-STOP Ride

♡-SYNOPSIS-♡ A group of people are travelling to Busan in a train. So are zombies.

It is incredible how quickly dis movie gets u 2care abt its characters. Like most Korean blockbusters, de production cant resist showing off its visual and special effects clout, resulting in a bombastic stunt toward de end dat’s incongruous wid de film’s lean, gritty style. Likewise, de screenplay piles on de hysteria & de schmaltz in de last leg & de hitherto restrained cast have no choice but 2 dial up performances 2 a borderline farcical level.

♡-VERDICT-♡ Train 2 Busan tugged on my heartstrings whether it be from de grisly-chaotic violence & terror 2de emotional drama dat ensues throughout. The film blends different genres while still maintaining its horror identity & left me on-edge every single frame that'll sure be an experience for all who are bold to endure it.

P.S De pregnant lady's husband was such a REAL HUMAN BEING & A REAL HERO

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I like this movie. Xiao Zhan has played his role very well. I think he is an honest artist. I like his simplicity. I don't find the movie unworthy of watching again. I wish, Xiao Zhan keeps getting more and more interesting roles ahead. Good wishes.
I don't know why he was nominated for golden broom award for this movie. As a viewer I strongly believe he has made justice to the character he played and at least has worked very hard for it.
I want to see him in more movies and dramas. I enjoy watching him.
I also like the acting of Li Qin. She is such a promising actress.
I like them both.
To tell about the direction if the movie I think it could be better.
Music of this movie is mediocre.
I think I will watch this movie once again. Although it is only for Xiao Zhan.
I am waiting for the second part of the movie.

I think the lower rattings of this movie is only because of its direction. To judge the acting of the male lead and female lead, it is worthy of having high rate.

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A multiple car crash became an intersection of good guys, bad guys and those who could go either way. The impacting of lives resulted in tragedy and reverberated into the futures of all involved.

Beast Stalker is a suspenseful thriller that felt like it could have been better than it was. Hampered by a shaky camera that looked like they were filming during an earthquake, erratic close-ups, and choppy editing, it was hard to follow some of the action scenes without feeling nauseated. The actual car crash scene was done quite well, choreographed by Bruce Law, even if you could tell they were the only cars on the road.

The acting ranged from adequate to good. Nicholas Tse did a fine job portraying a dutiful cop whose actions led to a tragedy and the shattering personal and professional fallout resulting from it. Nick Cheung played the scarred villain on a collision course with Tse's cop. I honestly felt if he had been able to bring more nuance to his role as conflicted as his character was, it would have made his story arc more powerful. I was most impressed with Wong Suet Yin who played Ling, the prosecutor's youngest child. The daughter was kidnapped to force her mother to capitulate to the Big Bad's demands. Wong beautifully portrayed a little girl who never gave up and was resourceful in trying to rescue herself despite numerous setbacks.

Overall, too many characters took away from the central core of the story for me. In a thriller like this, the fewer characters the better, and the better to develop those few fully.

The film displayed how a fateful accident drove people to drastic measures both for good and evil which brought up the age old question, "Do the means justify the ends?"

Beast Stalker is not a bad film, just remember to take your Dramamine before you start it.

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Wish I watched it earlier

First of all, I want to say that I watched this after the mini series. So I came prepared (not for the end though) and I already had deep feelings toward this story. I wish I gave it a try before watching the series for two reaons:

1. The director's cut flows waaay better than the single episodes do. I don't know how to describe it but it felt different. This way, the whole plot makes a completely different impact on the viewer's experience. The logical thread is easily perceivable and somehow even clearer. The viewer's experience is definitely on another level.

2. The final part. In the series, they don't really show an epilogue, or at least the way it would deserve. I read comments of people saying you won't regret watching those 10 or so extra minutes at the end. And oh dear if that's true. In the series, everything is so rushed I didn't even have time enough to realize what was happening/the scenes per se. In the director's cut they put what I think is THE ending. That was what I (didn't know I) needed to see and it also made me cry (both of sadness and joy). THAT final part is totally worth it.

I took advantage of the situation to rewatch it and this time I received something even more precious in return. I highly recommend it to both people who already watched the series and those who yet have to. I think you can just jump to this movie. If I knew it earlier, I probably would have watched this instead.

Overall, this story is so honest and realistic, that it really left a mark on my soul. This could easily be my fav BL of all time and, honestly, it easily went straight to my top 3. An imperfect love story but somehow perfect at the same time. Their love surely is strong and deep. That kind of love that unites the souls in a special way. That kind of love that's indescribable.
Applause to the actors too. They fit so good with their roles! I enjoyed the soundtracks too.

I would probably rewatch it for a hundred times, and never get bored or tired of it.

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Hong Sang-soo, despite his ways and habit of making his films the same in all, but plot, was able to trick the audience into falling into “this is a dream trap”for the ending by showing us a tell, only to have Not Min Jung come into frame. The film was a puzzle that I had trouble figuring out and I didn't expect a happy reunion between the two main characters, especially in the film that usually leads to sad endings or wrong life choices. I believe that Not Min Jung and Yeong Soo meeting at the end signified their pure love for each other. Min Jung drank with many men - wolves - that she met but, like she said, they didn't fit hence why Min Jung was crying at the end. She realised she truly loved Yeong Soo. Her denying that she wasn't Min Jung was her shedding her old attitude and was a restart, something that Yeong- Soo was absolutely desperate for as well. The ending scene was so sweet in many ways. The first scene we saw the two in had the two arguing and unhappy but they climaxed with happy and flushed faces like the happy couple they wanted to be.

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Such a great movie!

This is one of the best romantic movies I have ever seen! It was so easy to watch! I loved it! I loved the main idea of the story, that a woman being dissapointed from her life, goes back to her past memories and remembers the way she thought her present and future as a student. As a result she gets reminded all her dreams and values back then, so she decides to change her life and be loyal to her past self.
I liked how the two main characters got to know each other through a silly thing and they started their friendship. I loved watching their relationship change from hate to friendship to love. It was very interesting for me to get to know the male lead and the reason behind his behavior. I liked how they fell in love with each other little by little and pushed each other to become a better version of themselves. Their feelings were so pure and delicate! But they never expressed their real feelings for each other while they were watching each other everyday. That's a sad thing and a very regretful one, but it was very realistic, because love came after friendship and they hesitated mainly because they thought that they knew who the other person had feelings for. Watching them hiding their true feelings for each other's sake was very disheartening. After the confession of one person to the other I was so sad because it felt like the big chance to make this love relationship happen was lost. Years later and after the big life decluttering in female leads life, life gives the main leads a second chance, or a first chance if you give it more thought, to make things right! The movie ends giving you hope for what comes next !!!

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Watch Once, Hold In You Heart Forever

This had no business being so good, but also had no business being so sad. If you want to watch a movie where the first half is quirky and cute, while the second half will make you ugly cry, this one is a great one!

I knew what I was getting myself into with a "mob"-esq story, but Netflix recommended this to me and I didn't really feel strongly about watching something else so here I was in the same cycle. Probably going to watch a beautiful love story between a "school girl innocent" type and a "mobster with a heart of gold," and have it destroyed in the last few minutes due to "the mob life."

And this drama did have that element and storyline, but it was done in such a cute and quirky and sad way, that I was glued to the screen even though I knew something bad was going to happen. BUT unlike other "mob" stories, we got a happy ending or as much of a happy ending that we could have gotten with this tragic story.

I fell in love with A Cheng - we learn right from the beginning that he had a heart of gold, but for some reason was a debt collecting leader. He would go to collect debt from people and business owners, but instead of collecting money, he would help out in any way, and add their debt to his debt. In the beginning, we see him as a hero and maybe working on the inside to help out others who owe debt, but then we realize that he wants to help people, he just doesn't know how to do it any other way. He had a heart of gold, but didn't know how to handle every situation in another way - undercover, he was a hero and a caregiver, but to everyone else, he looked like the scum of the earth.

My favorite part of this film would have to be when he started pursuing Hao Ting - I loved the music score that they choose as if there was some kind of training montage that was taking place in the 80's but in reality, A Cheng was just convincing Hao Ting to date him romantically. I loved the funeral scene when A Cheng starts to realize that she was falling for A Cheng, and then when they go bowling and A Cheng decides to break out in song and dance. It was quirky! It was cute! It was cheesy!

But of course, there has to be a low cause not everything can be sunshine and rainbows. A Cheng falls back into old ways, and ends up in a dark place, which is when we find out some terrible news that changes A Cheng's life and makes him decide what is worth fighting for. I believe the reason why I ugly cried so much is because A Cheng was genuinely a great person who had his character and integrity put into question on multiple occasions by the same people who happened to be the ones closest to him. He had his bad days, which seemed to always be when everyone was around and he didn't always know how to express his words. And at those times when he needed someone there for him, it seemed as if those people would give up. A Cheng didn't take care of people because he wanted to be taken care of in return, and he didn't put his good deeds on a loud speaker for everyone to know. He did good things without thinking about it. He wasn't a perfect person, but he wanted to put more good out into the world than all the bad that was happening. And even til the end of the movie, even after the movie's climax settled, he took care of the people around him and made sure everyone was happy and taken care of.

Just remembering this film while writing this review gets me very emotional as A Cheng deserved a better life, but he was happy with what he had, and made everyone around him smile.

I hope Roy Chiu who played A Cheng won an aware for this movie, because it was amazing. It is definitely one of those films that you only watch once , but you hold in your heart for a while.

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Powerful statement

I am writing this review because nobody else has, this is a short but powerful drama about the power of ignorance combined with miss representation in media for fueling prejudice among children as well as how easy it is to plant negative ideas and fear in a child about himself.

The movie has one child that stands ous as the voice of reason and education without being to obvious about it, acting as the small shred of hope in an otherwise pretty awful environment.

The movie it self is actually nothing new, maybe not talked or shown enough, but colored children in a white environment are subjected to a whole lot of obstacles. It reminded me of the time I worked with kids in the country side when I got the question when the child was adopted when we got a child from an ethnic minority as well as well as the three year old child I worked with who once counted the white people on the tram and then said she wished she was white. So the way this child thought about himself as well as related to his surroundings was no surprise to me.

The way it is filmed is pretty powerful and it does make a strong statement, without sugarcoating the least bit this kid is thrown out in to the world to fight his own battle. I wish he would not have to fight his own battle, seeing it is a battle the grown ups and our society should be in charge of but I guess knowing how the world works the kid will be forced to do this and it should infuriate us all.

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A feel good, fight back, feel mad kind of movie

This movie is kind of sweet and pretty interesting showing very clearly the prejudice against both teen pregnancies and woman as a whole while pointing out and society's lack of safety nets in an a tad absurd and to far way...

What I loved about the movie was the dialog and the women sticking up for each other. I also loved the teen, she was probably smarter and waaaay cooler than all the adults in this drama but without loosing her status as a teen. I also loved how they over and over pointed out the absurdity in putting all the responsibility and blame on the teen mom when she clearly did not get pregnant on her own.

The grown up lead is not very nice, and that is okay too, she does have some growth but not to much growth and is most certainly less mature than the teen she has taken under her wing, giving the viewers a chance to hate her as wall as feel for her at times.

Other grown ups in charge of this teen and moms in general in this movie bring out my less pacifictic side, so do most of the men with one pretty awesome exception giving hope to all men out there, yes you can do it , you can be responsible lovable human being if you try.

All in all not really a masterpiece but definitely worth watching.

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wow this was sad - and not as this had a bad ending, but watching the bullying and "getting" that this is reality for a lot of students (no matter where they live) is just sad! also watching "u" feel like the "actor's" r newbies (as the acting felt a bit robotic) and while the after credits run, the testimonies given by some of the victim's (that were acting) to their own bullying experience's - confirms my initial though that they new to acting. so depressing is the right feeling left after watching this - cause as much as the main being gay is supposedly the main plot-point - that really aint the main point. its the ostracizing and almost witch-hunt perpetrated by a group - against one weak individual, just cause they can.

first off this not perfect - but as the main point was vividly conveyed - it doesn't matter. cause when Li Yang was just standing there and everyone else was encouraging him to jump - i suddenly got all those mass shootings done in the US but outcasts, and all those happily encouraging some one they tormented on the daily, to "jump" as if his life mean nothing, but added enjoyment to theirs - i kinda got what those other outcasts did, why they did. cause Li Yang or anyone giving their lives up to appease that bunch of human trash - wasn't justified (and sorry if i'm being mean, but that got under my skin like i donno what). as is those two girls at the start, making up sh*t about Li Yang's poor hard working mother, made me see red - so the more his bullying escalated, the more my wrath grew - hard to stay clam and collected watching this.

it was interesting and it feels more like an educational film for students, to get how much damage they r doing by their thoughtless words / actions - donno if this will stop bullying or help anyone in this situation. but the thought behind it is good...

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PISTACHIO

The plot isn’t grand or very dramatic. It’s a short (20 minute) story wid a school crush. It revolves around the main characters, Moo Young and Han Bit. Han Bit is the director of a short, one man play called ‘My Love’ for their drama club. Moo Young, his junior, applies to be a part of the club with the hopes of being the lead in the play, however the lead actor was already chosen. Moo Young still feels drawn to the main character of the play and alters the script on his own to emulate his own feelings, to which Han Bit disapproves of at first. Still, Moo Young hopes to have the main role if he could, while running errands for the group. Unbeknownst to everyone in the drama club, MooYoung also hides the fact that he harbors feelings for Han Bit.

Fun fact – both of the main characters are named Hyun Joon in real life!

https://dramacool.pe/secret-spectacles-2017-episode-1.html

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Visually, a fantastic spectacle !!

// OUTLINE // A motley crew salvaging space debris has deir lives changed wen dey stumble upon a 7-yr-old human like robot. Space Sweepers is packed wid dogfights & androids, wid the Earth on de brink of disaster..

De theme & de environment dat Space Sweepers is set in had great potential, but de film remains content with its largely simplistic storyline. Within these confines however, we get an entertaining two-odd hours entertainer. De cast greatly helps wid dis, as Song Joong-Ki is good &Kim Tae-Ri particularly shines in her role as the no-nonsense Captain Jang.

//VERDICT // Generally a fair amount of fun, though with maybe half an hour of edits would have been a much tighter and less inconsistent viewing experience

https://dramacool.pe/space-sweepers-2021-episode-1.html

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Cute and simple movie of self-actualization

I came across this randomly on youtube and i decided to watch. This movie is very simple and very basic with certain unrealistic elements but still a satisfying watch.
The plot is nothing new but it is different in the direction it took. It's your typical mousy office girl meets her highschool crush at work and tries to win him over with a makeover but instead of the romance being center stage it's more of a catalyst to her journey of self discovery.
The Female lead executed her role flawlessly. She allowed her mother to dictate and direct her life and suppressed her creative talent because of the bad memories her mother associates with art. I felt sorry for her and was frustrated by her docility in equal measure.
I loved the existence of shiny, her confident, assertive and outgoing alter ego who manifests as an imaginary friend until she comes to the realization that they are one and the same.
The male lead was kind and sweet. He saw her shortcomings and didn't actively force her to correct them but subtly suggested how she could correct them and in all cases it had to be her decision. I really liked that.
I don't consider this a romance, more a coming of age movie. The romance fell short. The ending existed only to give the movie a romantic ending. There was no lead up to it or anything. That was annoying but not enough to spoil the sweetness of the movie.
It was an easy watch, quite enjoyable but i won't rewatch it in a hurry.

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Good Plotting but lacks a bite !!

I would say “Night in Paradise” is quite de misleading title 4 dis film...Wid its Jeju location & an intriguing female & male protagonist, this film adds new dimensions 2 de storied tradition of K-gangster films. 4 all de talking of this film, der isn't a single original line of dialogue. Or a unique mob character. Or a new way of doing a bloody hit scene.

In some sense, I can understand this movie as a return 2 roots & a celebration of noir basics. But 2 many influences seem 2 b fighting 4 de same space these days. De 140-minrunning time isn't earned, wid de “slow-burning” atmospherics largely featuring de mourning man & orphaned girl who meet on de island 4 no reason other dan 2 lend meaning 2 de bodies dat will soon b tortured. De cliche of unlikely love blossoming btw 2 broken souls in an existential setting is so old dat it could pass off as a member of the British Royal Family.

// VERDICT // Der is no “paradise” in this movie, & u can bet der won’t b any 1 awaiting 4 the slaughtered wen all de scores r settled, every1 has gotten wat dey hve coming 2 dem.

https://dramacool.pe/night-in-paradise-2021-episode-1.html

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