So this is the second Japanese drama that I watched that I fairly enjoyed. Every episode was different and it had the right amount of twists to last through all ten episodes.

I'm not familiar with the two main characters but they could grow on me.

Ikuta Toma had some serious fighting skills but I was kind of disappointed that he didn't fight a lot. Same with Oguri Shun. He started off bad a** but ended up looking like he never fought a day in his life.

Since finding out Korean dramas existed last year and getting hooked on that, I don't have too many favorite Korean actresses. They all seem to whine, be pretty, stupid and poor. In this drama I actually liked Ueno Juri. She had some good fighting skills. Was tough as nails and was just a regular typical female who didn't take no stuff. I was even surprised by Seino Nana. Her skills weren't shown until the end but I had to rewind her fighting scene as well.

I liked the chemistry this cast had. They got along like actual family and that made this more enjoyable to watch. Toma, though, this guy....he portrayed himself as a easy going dorky guy but when he was angry he was nothing to be messed with.

I get angry about Korea not knowing how to end their episodes but I was disappointed with the ending of this one. I guess I'm too nostalgic and want happy endings in everything I watch. The ending was on point even though it wasn't what I wanted but it was a good 10 episode watch for me.

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There are a lot of Korean dramas where it's just one season. This is the third Korean drama that I watched that had a sequel to.

I watched the first QOM series and I fairly enjoyed that and was a bit nervous about it's sequel.

When I watched the first episode of the sequel I was going to drop it because that episode was all over the place. I was thoroughly confused and was wondering if it was going to stay in that direction for the next 15 episodes. I was very close to dropping it but after the second episode I ended up binging on the rest of the episodes.

Again this series focused on several criminal situations that needed to be solved and I liked the way it was done. What I didn't like though was the last episode. It was a mess. It seemed as if the writer had a hard time trying to come up with a way to end last episode so they threw in a little bit of this and a little bit of that and what was left was a hot mess. I wonder why Korea always have a hard time ending their last episodes in these dramas. Especially if it only have to do with one plot!

It seems that there will be a third QOM because several plots weren't solved in the last series. I hope that's the case because I most definitely liked this series.

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I have been hooked on Korean dramas since July 2020. Didn't know they existed until then.

I love the action dramas and have been leaning on the legal dramas as well. This is about the 4th legal drama that I've watched and every legal drama that I've seen haven't disappointed me.

This one didn't disappoint. Even though it was slow paced, it still was enjoyable to watch.

The cast was great. Unfortunately each drama that I've seen I end up hating a Korean female and yes, I didn't care for the prosecutor who got transferred to another office. I found myself rooting for her twice though.

I laughed a lot while watching this. There was even moments that had me a little jumpy.

There were two scenarios that this episode focused on: the carpenter's ruler, and room 309. The carpenters ruler was solved but not the story behind room 309. I wanted that story to finish out but it was left hanging.

The last few episodes had my blood boiling though. The one thing I can't stand is bullies and the way it was handled was also left dangling.

As I mentioned before it was a slow paced series but there wasn't a episode I didn't enjoy. Now I'm going to be hooked on Korean legal dramas as well.

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Fun to watch

I wasn't expecting much when I saw this because I have found myself steering away from Korean cliche rom-coms.

It was fun to watch and a bit cheesy for my taste. I stuck it out to the end just to see if the ending would be good and it was OK.

My favorite was the guy who played the police officer but both he and the main male lead had me in stitches. Even though they were enemies their chemistry was what kept me watching.

Again I hate the way they profile Korean women: poor, pretty, and stupid and that's how they portrayed Do Soon.

The villain was pretty weak but again, I just kept watching it because it was filling my void of Korean action dramas.

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This one was OK

This was only a 12 episode series so I was glad that whatever the plot was, it wasn't going to be a long drawn out plot.

The issues I had was that there was too many loopholes in this series. They didn't delve into the detective receiving vampire like capabilities at all. There was no questions asked and none answered.

There were also episodes that literally put me to sleep. Those could've been the episodes where it explained the main characters skills more but it was like 'meh, he's a vampire let's move on', kind of thing.

It was an OK watch. Makes me not want to watch the other vampire drama that's out there. Can't remember the title but yeah, I will be staying away from that one.

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I tend to shy away from Chinese and Japanese dramas because the actors are so dead! They play these roles as if their lives have been drained and they're using every last effort to make it work.

I wasn't going to watch this drama but another user on here recommended it so I felt obliged to watch it.

It's only 8 episodes so thankfully the plot wasn't drawn out. Something Korea should take note in sometimes.

The characters were great. Didn't feel any chemistry from anybody. I'm so use to that and when I don't get it it makes me change my whole outcome on characterizations and character choices . Two female characters kept squealing over how good the food was in almost every episode. I hate high pitch squealing female voices!!

From the plot you have this mother who envies rich women's lives and will do whatever it takes to live like them. She may have to trample on a family to get there but it will get done.
That attitude was kept until the last two episodes though. With any Asian drama I have now become use to the plot swaying in a different direction which this one did. It sort of leads to a let down for me which lowers my expectations and ratings.

I did not like the father at all! This man had no spine! In my opinion he was the worse character choice for this drama.

I knew there was going to be romance in this! I just knew it but the way it was done wasn't over the top or the cliche romances that I have come to despise in any kind of drama.

The very last episode was kind of a let down for me. I wouldn't call this a revenge or thriller because of that. I wasn't prepared to feel sorry for the wrong doers one bit but in the end I felt a little tinge of sympathy which I didn't want to feel. I wanted that 'Taxi Driver' revenge but alas...I didn't get it.

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Here's my take on what I've seen so far. I watched season one in 2021 but went back to rewatch this a few weeks ago after finding out there was going to be a season 2. I wanted to vividly remember why I loved the first season and I'm being truthfully honest. I'm glad I rewatched the first season because to me it seemed like it picked up right where it left off once they were able to get rid of the second main antagonistic group.
The plots are the same. The revenge factor is the same except that some scenes are a bit more grittier than the first. Some of the cast that made it seem like they were going to be in season 2 is not in season 2 so far.

I love the cast but it seems like the two guys are dumber than dirt this time around. For one to be good with cars and the other a rocket scientist their skills are truly dismal in the second season. I love their chemistry but I really don't like side kicks who act like Jim Carey.

Unfortunately I knew who the antagonist was before the sixth episode. Makes me wonder how that scenario is going to play out.

I'm hoping against all possible hope that there's no romance in this. It never bodes well and it would be a waste. I got a funny feeling that it will go in that direction. I'm hoping it won't.

Alas as for me, I'm loving the second season. After coming from watching The Glory and it's dismal watered down revenge drama, this one is exceeding my expectations so far.

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Welcome to Chicago P.D., Chicago Med, and Chicago Fire crossover all in one!!

If you ever watched any of these shows then you'll get a gist of how First Responders work except that everything that happens in these dramas are combined into one show.

Each episode have it's own unique plot which isn't over the top. They each have a beginning, middle, and end which I loved but as the episodes got closer to the end some scenarios lasted about two episodes.

Whoever put this cast together is a genius! This cast melded so well that I fell in love with every last character-both good and bad. The connection worked for me. I know I love strong bromance dramas, this one wasn't strong but it was there.

Now the bad part...I can't stress enough how much I despise dramas that involves romance! In this case there's two guys vying for one female and I seriously hate that. I also got a feeling that the main female lead is going become that lovesick puppy I despise as well. This is why I'm giving it a 9. It would've given it a 10 if it weren't for the cheesy cliche romance.

Another thing I hate is that it ends in a cliff hanger. I hate cliff hangers because it either takes too long to show the reveal or it gets left in the air.

It's been a minute since I came across a Korean drama that had me eagerly reaching for the 'next episode' button. Now that I watched this whole drama, I feel like I've lost a life long friend...Till First Responders season 2 comes along, I'll be looking like a lost puppy trying to find a drama that can pretty much match this one.

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When I saw a female lead with strong fighting skills I had to watch. There's not that many in Korea so when a female who can fight pops up I'm there.

I also noticed the two main leads were in Money Heist. So again, had to watch.

I gotta say this movie was a let down. Weak character plots all around had me irritated in the end. There's no back story of the main FL. Her best friend's back story was weak as all get up and the main ML who plays the villain was even worse.

The movie lightly touched up on females being videotaped and blackmailed. They make it seem like the police chief is in on this as well but again, every scenario that was deposited into this movie was lackluster and that's putting it nicely.

All we get is the main FL can fight. The pace was very slow. The bad bad guys got taken out in less than 10 minutes. The ending even less than that.

This is why I tend to stay away from Korean movies. They have no life to them. Stick to the Korean dramas. You'll be more satisfied than this movie.

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What a Ride

I had no idea the ML was the actor from Carter. That movie was disappointing to say the least. I wasn't familiar with him then and after seeing this I wouldn't mind watching anything he's in-if it involves fighting. I can't stress how much I love action police dramas and Korean actors who know how to fight!!

I'm going to talk about the cinematography first. I watched this drama on two different links and thought one would be better than the other. They weren't. A lot of the scenes that happened in this drama were so dark!! I don't mean in a sadistic way I mean in the lighting way. I don't understand what the editors were thinking when this was on the editing floor! It takes a lot of time to get the cameras and lighting set up and I think maybe it was too time consuming to do that. It looks like they filmed the majority of this drama in the winter so it must've been dark all of the time and they had no choice but to film scenes in the dark and tried to use as much lighting as they could. The problem with that was that some of the key elements were lost. If you can't see what's going on you won't know what's going on. You'll be left in the dark...literally!
I just couldn't believe they let all of those dark scenes stay.

Now for the chemistry...I wouldn't say it wasn't there, it was just...I don't know how to put it. I don't want to say it seemed disconnected because it wasn't. It just wasn't as strong as I would've liked it to be. That's just MY opinion.

I liked the fact that this drama kept it's consistency. They even threw in a 'Escape The Room' kind of spiel which reminded me of that show 'Busted'. But this one was better.

I liked the whole cast. There were no sappiness. No dripping oozing romance. Dramas work without the unnecessary fluff.

When they say 'the pen is mightier than the sword' in this drama they weren't kidding. Just like 'Weak Hero Class' I will never look at a pen the same.

Now as usual I always comment about the last episode. I don't know if I liked how it went. Especially in the beginning. I thought some grand heist was going to happen but it didn't. They built it up like it was going to be a 'gotcha' moment only to have it go in another direction. It also irritates me when they need to complete something they do a news segment to wrap everything up. Sometimes it's for the best but sometimes it just make it seem as if the director and writer had no where else to go. It's like that 'deux ex machina' kind of thing.

You also get to learn about Korean artifacts if it was real. I never cared for materialistic things even if it held some kind of history to it. After all they're just objects with a story behind it and nothing else.

I truly liked this drama. Somewhere down the line I will watch this again. I just have to tweak the contrast on the computer to get some of those dark scenes brighter.

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I'm supposedly watching this movie while I'm typing this review. That should say something about how this movie is.

It's based purely on cinematography. The colors and locations are beautiful.

They give a synopsis of what the movie will be about but it doesn't seem like they stick to the plot. Mainly because of all the long pauses, ambient sounds and little to no dialogue. At some points I thought the movie froze because of the long pauses.

I'm not sure why they even called this movie The Assassin because there's hardly no fighting scenes! I mean a woman assassin and this is all we get??

Alas I digress. I couldn't take this movie anymore.

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First off, I love action movies, dramas...anything that has fighting in it I'm there. So when I came across this I knew I was going to watch it.

I've become addicted to Korean action dramas and have watched other Korean genre dramas.

I have tried to expand my addiction to Japanese and Chinese dramas but no offense, they don't hold up the same.

Watching this drama had me cringing and eye rolling throughout every episode.

The mom in the beginning loses her husband and two kids. Luckily one survives but this led the mom to go a bit crazy. She's bada** to the core with her martial art skills but throughout the series her missing children slowly show up and the reunion was so dead!

Speaking of dead, their funerals aren't as emotional as the Korean drama funerals. Loved ones died and they were like 'we'll miss you...who's up for lunch.

Now the fighting scenes. More eye rolls though this.

I like a build up that leads to fighting but it seemed like the writers didn't know how to build up the fighting scenes so they just let them say a few words then 'FIGHT'. I was thinking half the time why are they fighting?
The constant palms to the chest, back, and head, and spurting out fake blood in EVERY SINGLE fight got old pretty quick. I'm not medical expert but....if you're spitting out blood....that means you have internal injuries right? Nope! These people were able to get back up and fight some more. They finally got the color of the blood right in the 29th episode though.

Throughout this whole series there was only one plot...Every bad guy wanted to take over Tong Street. What was so special about this street? They never stated why it was so special.
Whenever one bad guy gets defeated and another comes along and puts fear in people a speech has to be made about how the nice people of Tong Street will prevail. This speech is given throughout the series. After the 4th 'we can do it speech' it gets old quick.

The portrayal of American soldiers back in the 30's made America look horrible. It may be dead on but I'm not familiar with the Thailand/Chinese culture of the 1930's.

Another take away was that all of the bad guys died quickly with a lot of episodes left. Then close to the end more side characters started dying quicker than quick sand so the cast became smaller and smaller. I mean who else could be left to die? Both the bad guys and good guys died pretty early.

If this didn't have any fighting in it I would've passed. The romance part killed the majority of it for me. This is one drama that I will not watch again.

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I just finished watching this drama and liked it. It had some moments where it had me grinning from ear to ear. This is because of the bromance that involved the three main male characters. I don't know what it is about bromances but it seems to make the drama a whole lot better. I also smiled at the fact that a young adult and older adult can get along as equals without looking at the age difference.

There's a lot of comedy which helps move this series along.

It's a slow paced drama so there's no need to rush and watch this all at once.

The plot was a little weak. Illegal gambling...Yeah, there's no suspense, thriller, or espionage to this. I guess illegal gambling is really really huge in Korea. I just didn't understand how this scenario made it to 16 episodes! I have to give mad props to the writer for being able to stretch that out.

The take away that I had with this drama was the teenage sappy romance between the second main ML and FL. It didn't feel real. The reason why I can't stand romance dramas is because there's no where to go. You get a lovey dovey couple who do stupid things for love, end up getting angry, and there's that perverbial breakup scenario. Romance doesn't go anywhere but down.
Plus there were several second lead love scenarios that I hated. I hate seeing two people going after one person and that one person strings the two lovers along. Ugh...I seriously try to avoid dramas like this but I don't want to miss out if it's a good drama.

I didn't think I would like the last episode even though it dragged a bit but it gave everybody closure. Main issues were solved and not forgotten like a lot of other dramas I've seen.
I gave this a low score for a rewatch value but if someone wants to just surpass the time this series will help.

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I'm going to talk about why I gave this drama a 10. It's shocking because I barely give dramas a 10 even if I love it.

It's because of the cast. Oh man, I fell so in love with all of the cast members minus one person: Byun Woo Sung who played the older brother. This guy is a total prick to me. The few dramas that I've seen him in he's been a prick. I wonder if that's how he really is because he look it. He must enjoy roles where he gets to belittle people and it's a huge turn off for me.

I absolutely loved Baek Jun. I usually have a beef with Korean female actresses because of how they're portrayed but she wasn't portrayed like that. She was a powerful female who didn't back down to the bullies in this drama and I loved every bit of it.

Byeon Hyeok. He grew on my within the first episode and his character blossomed throughout the whole drama. He was so adorable! His naivtey just so darned cute.

Kwon Je Hoon. I felt so bad for him having to clean up Hyeok's screw ups. I hated the fact that he got talked down to and was beat for other people's mistakes. That kind of treatment always makes my blood boil.
He just got mistreated by the powerups so bad that he didn't even smile until the very last few episodes. When he did it made my heart melt.

The chemistry the main three characters had along with their counterparts. I fell in love with all of them, mainly Ms. An. I loved how she was the voice of reason and how she kept everybody together. I also loved how each of these people stayed by Hyeok's side no matter what he did.

I loved the guy who played as the cop and Baek Jun's girlfriend. They all had me wishing I was apart of this drama.

I'm angry because some scenarios was left in the air like Mr. Min not getting what he deserved. He always plays a prick in every drama I've seen him in as well.

This wasn't a romantic sappy cliche drama that a lot of people were wishing for. I'm glad I read the reviews and learned it wasn't really a romance drama. I would've avoided it at all cost if it was. But on the other hand if I avoided watching this I would've truly missed out on how good this drama was.

I laughed, got angry, and nearly bawled in some areas throughout this drama. When a drama like that can get all these emotions out of me like that then it does deserve 10 stars.

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I for one, love the Bourne saga because of how much action was in each and every film. Those are my type of action movies!!

I've seen a total of maybe seven Korean movies in my whole entire lifetime and this was one of those. I usually don't watch Korean movies because they lack.....I can't think of the proper word for what I'm trying to say but I'll say depth.

I'm not familiar with the main male character and did a little research on him. I had no idea how infamous he was. That led me to watching Goblin but I ended up dropping that series because of the cliche romance involved. I no longer watch Korean dramas that have romance as the basis of their shows but I did enjoy the bloopers from that series.

Now back to this movie. The main thing that I liked in this movie were the car chase scenes. I was rooting like a kid on those. The fighting scenes were on point for me as well.
Now I will say some things that happened in this movie like the main lead getting dropped through a floor by a rope around his neck and was able to free himself was a little bit far fetched but what length are you willing to go when you need to get to that person who was behind killing your family?
The end had me upset because I wanted to see more revenge being done to the wrongdoers but the movie was already over 2 hours.

This was also a movie that I watched twice and I've never watched a Korean movie twice.

If you like the Bourne saga or the Mission Impossible saga this is highly suggested. For those who gave this a low score obviously don't like action packed movies.

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