Ineffective dystopian worldbuilding
As much as its attempt on the dystopian worldbuilding, it never comes effective due to the largely sloppy plotlines. A world set in the recovery stage of a worldwide mass destruction after a comet disaster, most of the scenes and situations didn't feel believable as it lacks surrealism, the imagination it has is also pretty vague. The main villain is a resource hogging conglomerate heir, the protagonist is a rebel employee planning to wage a war to change the system for refugees, it's a great source material yet this Netflix adaptation was poorly done, the direction of the story is unconvincing, tension between characters is weak and everything just seems forgettable.Was this review helpful to you?
The Deliveryman delivered but the drama leaves room for improvement
If you look at the drama as a whole package. I think it was good. The VFX , action sequences and the Sci-Fi elements are chef's kiss. But the story never got me going from the start till the very end. And that made me a bit disappointed since netflix kdramas that are airing on a single day have been delivering in the past. But the same could not be said about the same for this drama.Our team of deliveryman were cool. They were like Batman in the gotham city. They were too overwhelming for the villains. They were Superman with no super power to be exact.
The concept of the drama was great. But you just want the drama to just end. Acting was good from the cast. But nobody left a lasting impression in this drama. Even though the cast is pretty good. The story couldn’t get the best from them. Still it is not a bad watch considering you love this genre or don't have anything else to watch.
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Delusa è dire poco!
È una serie sci-fi, distopica, apocalittica, ma dimenticabile!un cast stellare che non si è per nulla valorizzaro per una storia banale e a volte sconnessa. A tratti noiosa e insensata.
Sono delusa: aspettavo il lancio da mesi. Kim Woo Bin è tra i miei attori preferiti e il suo personaggio era privo di personalità in questo caso. Dall'altro canto, anche tutti gli altri personaggi erano inconsistenti. Ad un certo punto mi è sembrato che si tentasse di accostare la storia un po' a Squid Game, forzando la trama.
Ho notato anche alcuni buchi di trama.
Sono sinceramente contenta che non siano stati fatti più di 6 episodi. Se dovesse uscire un'altra stagione (che è improbabile da quel che ho visto) non la guarderei di sicuro.
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The world without Cheonmyeong or without smoking?
If they had to choose an actor with the most expressive eyes to make us watch him wear a mask, they sure did the right choice casting Kim Woo Bin.🔸That would be weird to expect another Blade Runner from Cho Ui Seok, known for his (boring) "action-only-and-forever" movie Master, and you lose nothing skipping Black Knight as there is nothing you haven't already seen in Master and Alienoid with Kim Woo Bin. The production design might be good, so as the storyline about Yoon Sa Wol - "from zero to hero" type that is always satisfying - but that's it. I honestly don't give a damn about the "villainous villain" who wants to destroy the world for some reason, or looking for a treatment for his who-knows-what disease, or whatever else he does, ending with a huge exhausting action sequence that has no purpose.
🔸I finished this overly extended movie, and it immediately faded away from my mind. There is no memorable OST, no intro. It is soapy.
The story failed in building emotional connections with it's characters, and I wished for all the refugees to die if they remained so naive, faceless, and didn't try to protect themselves. Theoretically, 5-8, Sa Wol and his company are representatives of the refugees, but de facto they are on totally different levels of intelligence and power.
And, seriously, it's so easy to steal a QR code. Where are all the hackers in that town? Or at least people with smartphone cameras?
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Catchy to watch but disappointing
This is only selling because its on Netflix...if it was on other platform it wouldn't have sold wellwatched the trailer and had high expectations but on watching the 2 eps i got disappointed considering the fact that i hyped the drama when the trailer was released
The show is draggy, the fighting scene isn't that good..Kim woo bin should have chose a better script than this his acting was good but the show dragged him down......I knew at first that the show will not b best when I read the webtoon could not finish 2 eps tho I expected better from the life action adaption dat was why I tried watching
i will stop here maybe i can come back to make some changes on my review after finishing the show
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Took me to a whole new dimension for a brief 6 episodes.
The plot is brief, concise and presents the main points of the story in 6 short episodes. There were no unnecessary plots, it portrayed, the cause, the effect and the final result in the most straightforward manner.I saw some people say the lack of emotions of the characters was a drawback but I think the characters were just perfect. Given their situation in a post-apocalyptic world, if they start crying and bawling at the deaths surrounding them, then that's when they will go out of character. They weren't inhuman, they were just surviving, and no matter what they needed to go ahead with their lives.
I like this fresh idea for a post-apocalyptic drama and a nice change of scenery. The cast was perfect and yes Kim Woo Bin nailed it!
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Good Enough
Korean Drama " Black Knight " is a sci fi drama taking place in a dystopian future.The drama is full of action, political manipulation, and, underneath all that, human relationships.
The action scenes, first of all, were pretty enjoyable, with nicely choreographed fighting scenes and interesting twists.
The main plot is also intriguing, with the relationship between the boy and the Knight being the center and heart of it.
However, this drama is one of those series that needed more time to properly develop. Unfortunately, its length meant that the story is rushed and everything happened too quickly and too sudden.
Therefore, the political drama was not fully explored, in addition to being predictable and boring.
On the other hand, the performance were great by everyone in the cast.
So, overall, five out of ten.
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Were six episodes enough to pull off this wonderfully imagined SyFy Action Drama?
Black KnightA celestial catastrophe causes Korea to change to a desert where air quality is drastically limited. Only 1% of the population survived and now live in a masked world. To receive goods and services in this dystopia, the population is divided into the general, special, core population members, separated by QR codes encoded into their skin. Those of the population not chosen for either of these special groups receiving special treatment are termed refugees. Humans can disassociate from humanity in times of extreme crisis.
The heroes of this new dystopia are the Deliverymen. They are the ones who fight off brutal Hunters, seeking to confiscate these special delivered goods. The Hunters try to steal from those supply cargo trucks called Relief Supplies Transport Vehicles the Deliverymen drive. The Deliverymen bringing replacement goods to the people in the serviced populations are Rockstars to the public. Out of the shadows of this fighting force of martial arts specialists is the legendary Deliveryman 5-8 (Woo Bin) who is the superhero among super heroes.
This drama had a great ideal premise and could have been a great SyFy drama. I feel that the scriptwriter who transposed the brilliant Webtoon (By the same name) into a drama could have handled his brilliant material better. The writer seemed to have lost his way through this potential hit. Black Knight was reduced to allowing violence to take the place of a well written script, in my opinion. The cast was stellar, led by Woo Bin as the legendary 5-8 Deliveryman and Kang YouSeok as the dreamer and population castaway, seeking to become a Deliveryman like his hero 5-8.
I found myself fast-forwarding past certain violent scenes and I was left a little empty waiting for this potential hit to take off. This drama has six episodes. More episodes could have been used to develop the wonderfully imagined characters living in this wonderfully imagined life-interrupted world in this drama.
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Simple life
I was expecting so much and was disappointed instead.The story was too simple it got boring, especially in ep 2 as it never delved into too much detail in how they got there in the first place and wished it went into more detail.
How the boy became a mutant would've lit more interest as they are explored properly only a few snatched of conversation
The acting performance was on point yet was lacking in how the deliveryman came together and how 5-8 became a legend. Glad we got a little of his backstory though as it was interesting. Sa wol was an interesting person but I never fully understood how the mutant was and why he was so important because of this. Wished their was more episodes
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Imagine depending on oxygen to live under the command of greedy human beings, what a life is this!? this is the plot.The CGI, besides being excessive, is horrible. There are some fanservices.
The South Korean series is fairly fast-paced, but isn't particularly interested in whether everything is explained and makes sense. The plot is dyslexic, why would anyone respect the speed limit in the desert transporting rare material in a post apocalyptic world being military!?
Why in a super modern truck the glass is not electric but on the crank!?
Netflix recently signed an investment agreement with South Korea to produce and air more K-dramas. Black Knight is an example of this, people who are familiar with K-dramas know that this is far from being a South Korean production, it is better for Netflix to leave it to those who understand the subject or if it continues to stick its finger in adapting K-dramas in a way Americanized will end up boycotted.
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"Refugees are people, too. They live and breathe."
Black Knight didn't add anything new to the dystopian world genre, but it was an engaging and entertaining drama at the perfect length. It was long enough to give the viewer time to care about the characters and also didn't bog down and overstay its welcome. For a world short on oxygen, it knew just how many breaths to take.Kim Woo Bin as delivery man 5-8, in his oversized coats was perfect as the leader of the delivery people and refugee rebels. Having survived a massacre, he knew exactly what the Cheonmyeong corporation was capable of. The Chairman's son, Ryu Seok, wanted to eradicate the refugees and keep the status quo with the haves having all the oxygen and resources in their underground relative utopia while the refugees gasped for air and dealt with a lack of food, medicine, education, and jobs on the dusty surface.
Kang Yoo Seok as Sa Wol was the cocky young upstart mutant refugee who entered the fight ring in order to become a delivery man. Again, nothing new in the winner takes all fight to the near death or death to gain a dystopian prize, but the scrappy and sympathetic Sa Wol made it easy to care about him. Esom as Seol Ah, was the dutiful soldier who was not afraid to bend the rules by hiding Sa Wol in her house and raising him for a decade. As the story went on, she and 5-8 would have a different reason for going to the mountaintop, each taking their own road in order to bring Ryu down and save the refugees who were marked for death.
Kim Woo Bin did a great job as the delivery man who delivered more than food and oxygen, he delivered hope and justice. Song Seung Heon was elegantly despicable, proving why nepotism is a bad thing. The story had some lapses in logic and could have delved more into certain plot points, but the charismatic performances overrode the plot holes a delivery truck could have driven through.
Black Knight highlighted how the 1% in charge of resources was unwilling to share and capable of almost any atrocity against refugees that they didn't see as holding any value. It was in their best interest to keep the people divided into classes. The company and their lifestyles trumped any good they could have done for the surviving masses. For Ryu, the people were never grateful enough for the oxygen Cheonmyeong allowed them to breathe---those whom they decided were worthy to breathe.
"The only thing necessary for evil to triumph in the world is that good men do nothing." (Source debated) The politicians, military, refugees, and delivery people would have to decide what they were willing to do to build a world for all survivors. Black Knight could be dark at times and was unafraid of sacrificing characters in the deadly fights, but it also shone a light on the goodness of people as they fought to create a better world for everyone, not just for some. This might not have been a perfect drama, but it was perfect way to spend a few hours on a rainy day.
5/12/23
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don't let the negative reviewers for you.
yes it's a relatively short drama. it's only six episodes but there's a lot that goes on in those six episodes. I think the story overall is pretty decent and for me acting and casting is excellent. man did it turn out to be a lot better than I initially anticipated going into it. I definitely would rewatch this again. it would be really interesting if they did a season too but that's probably unlikely but never say never. I will say this this drama is one of those shows that you should watch if you're looking to take a break from your traditional romcoms or historical dramas which I generally do love watching but sometimes you need to change it up and this show definitely won't do that for you.Was this review helpful to you?
