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A second movie needed

It was really exciting to watch as a 2013 kmovie, I hope there will be a second movie of the same actors in the nearest future which obviously would be way better than this considering the year gaps and how much korea has gone forward in production, acting, makeup, storytelling and much more.
Like Imagine if this comes back in 2023 or 2024 ohh that would be amazing 😭 id definitely watch and recommend to all my friends who love mystery and these types of movies.

So CJ Entertainments and M Pictures, give us the second movie with the same casts, Kim Kang-woo, Kim Yoo-bin, Kim Bum and Esom

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A one time watch :)

Just go into knowing this is just a fun action movie. If your a fan of Jackie Chan or Yang Yang or both then yes check it out!
Definitely a one time watch for me :)

PROS:
◇Jackie Chan
◇Yang Yang
◇Some of the actions secens were cool to look at. Over the top? Yes but still fun!

CONS:
◇The main character luck 🙈
◇The CGI (especially in the 3rd act!)
◇The writting wasnt great
◇To clean of an end
◇Really need to expand your disbelief

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Movie Synopsis:
"Covert security company Vanguard is the last hope of survival for an accountant after he is targeted by the world's deadliest mercenary organisation."

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Should a film be good? Can it not simply be enjoyable and fun?

Should a film be good? Can it not simply be enjoyable? This film is a true example of the answer to those questions. For one of my weekly groupwatches, we decided to watch this film in between two shows because it looked fun and like it would have good fights. And dear reader, it did deliver on both of those.

The story was difficult to follow at times, jumping around way too fast, not developing anything and just dropping exposition in a perfect example of telling instead of showing. The investigation for who killed the convoy at the beginning and where the mysterious young woman that our hero must find it gets solved very quickly. But it is after all a 70min film. The costumes looked cheap, my cheap training sword I have for taichi which I bought for 300SEK looks less cheap than some of the swords they are using. The acting is not always the best and this film sadly makes use of some tired racist stereotypes (the evil people are from the steps, you see). If you just make a list of everything that is not right, it feel like this should not be a good time.

But the fact is that it is. The fights are enjoyable to watch (we joked that they had put all of the budget into the fight). The main male character is odd and fun. The main female character appeared on screen and we instantly said at the same time that we loved her. The side kick duo of silly assistants are, for once, women, which is both enjoyable and making me want a comedy GL centred around those two.

So is this film good? No, definitely not. But I also neither regret watching it, nor would say it is not enjoyable because it very much is. And this is why this is getting a 7.
In the words of one of my friends who watched it with me: "sometimes low budget trash just hits the spot"
So find some friends, gets some popcorn and a blanket, and watch this next time you want something fun that you will forget in no time, but will have a good time watching and laugh a lot at.

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Annoyed me to death and had me pondering if someone would jump off that cliff...

Yes this review is pretty much all spoilers and me b*** about this movie, so brace yourself!


This is the story about the girl who got a heart transplant by peep hole surgery, and moved far, far away from any type of hospital to recover... Despite the surgery the girl seemed to experience shortness of breathe and had magic medicine to help her with that... Immune suppresents, foodlimitations and other stuff did not make the cut.

But not only did the girl receive a heart, she seems to have traded in half of her body as she pretty much got possessed by the ghost of her doner, became delusional and put her self in harms way making me wonder if this story was made by the anti organ donation lobbyist who would ultimately make her jump/fall/ be shoved off the cliff by her doner.

However she does seem to survive, and even though she basically ignores and pretty much cheats on her boyfriend with a ghost, nobody seems to care about that... like at all... preferably because anything goes if you have had surgery. The way she goes between the boys is almost fashinating. It was also pretty obvious that the boy was a ghost.

So yes I spent most of this movie cursing and thinking oh come on wtf... ?I(#€Q€OSF SDF


That said we do get to see some pretty great scenery, a really cute dachshund flashes by and we also get to see dolphins.

So if you shut of your brain and do not mind this type of story go for it the execution is not bad... as for me I bearly made it though.. .but do feel that seeing that dog and dolphin made up for some of the waisted time and annoyance this caused letting me give this a 6and not a 3 which it probably deserves...

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it was a good experience for me to see it and it is good to see it once

It was a good movie and it was able to show a painful and difficult love
The acting of the actors, especially the leading actress, was wonderful
But there were some problems that could not be overcome
One was the characterization of the character of V Lai, the same psycho and bully girl. Bantam did not spend much time on his character and it would have been much better if they had given us more information about him and showed his character more deeply.
Most of this character was an excuse to show the love of the two main characters of the film
Another negative point of the movie was the lack of balance between the first half and the second half of the movie.The first half of the story was a melodrama and calm, but at the same time beautiful and spectacular, but in the second half, the story took on a criminal theme and became chaotic, and this complicating the situation by the author did not create a good result in the film process.
If the second half was as smooth and calm as the first half and at the same time showed off its beauty, it would have become a better work.
But overall, it was a good experience for me to see it and it is good to see it once

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Fluffy, Cute Romance.

It was a nice watch. Its been quite a long time since I watched a movie. Me watching this was very random. Since I kinda had a burnout from watching dramas for a while. Thankfully this was a good pick. Cute, fluffy and funny. It just needed more scenes of them together. The leads do have great chemistry together. Would love to watch more of them together. There dating scenes should have been explored more.
I had a bit of psychopath diary vibes with that curly hairdo of shi yoon's. His character also had similar vibes. Yoon shi yoon definitely should do more rom coms. He suits being a romantic hero.
Overall, worth watching. Give it a try if you wanna watch a romcom but don't wanna wait 8-10 eps for the leads to finally kiss.
PS. I am a simp for Yoon Shi Yoon.

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i haven't seen the Chinese version

I haven't seen the Chinese version, so I can't compare it. I look at the Korean version separately. It was beautiful, she showed her friendship very, very beautifully, but there were some problems. For me, there were places where it should have made an impression. It didn't make an impression. I don't understand the reason why the girl was wearing the boy's necklace. In some places, Kim Damie's character was too full, while she should be ashamed in front of her friend. . In some places, I did not understand the decisions of the characters, what was the reason, how did they feel when they made this decision. I didn't understand the reason why Kim Dami didn't tell the truth to the boy, but overall, I think it was a work worth seeing once

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I didn't think it would be a good movie because of the bad comments

I didn't think it would be a good movie because of the bad comments my friends made about the movie, but it wasn't like this at all.
First of all, the greatest strength of the movie was the excellent acting of the actors, all of whom did a really good job, especially Jeon Doyon, who played the lead role.
The director and stage design were also good and had a new and interesting script (the main character staying between being a mother and being a murderer was very interesting)
The movie could have been really good in its genre, but it's like a bunch of friends were looking for special valuable concepts in this movie, but they couldn't find it, and some of them got too immersed in a certain side.
I don't recommend it to those who don't like crime and action movies. The movie is full of action and bloodshed scenes, not too much, but I don't think it's tolerable for those who don't like it.
But those who like this genre will probably like it. I'm not saying the movie was great, but it will be acceptable and attractive to them.It also had a good ending.
I liked it and I don't regret seeing it

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An all round ambitious work. (However, 'beautiful' is different...)

"Three Sisters" has won numerous international awards. 12 to be precise. But I'll say it right away: it's overall rather painful to look at. It's even painful to the point. Again and again. So true-to-life that it even hurts some more. Some might seem crass being focused that intensely. But at the same time it's not that crass, actually. It is the normality shining through behind the story, that is almost the most painful part of this KMovie.

Three sisters, each in their unique way coping and trying to live with the pain that forces their souls into a corset from which they don't know how to free themselves. They live with their trauma. Are alone, captured within their traumatic past. They don't talk about their trauma. They are emotionally rather surviving than actually feeling alive. They are still trapped in their unresolved past today, because they don't recognize or acknowledge the corset as such. But as long as that doesn't happen, they can't put it off and thus learn to approach life, experience life without a corset...

Haunting portraits of women! So intense that the pain reaches the audience, as vicarious emotion so to speak. Fantastic actresses. An excellent KMovie in all aspects... lighting, scene, shot, cut, etc. too... An all round ambitious work. (However, 'beautiful' is different...) About a topic that is one worldwide. About a topic that is also a big one in South Korea with such a strong patriarchic family hierarchy. A trauma that far too many people on this earth learn to endure. Have to cope with one way or another. Suffer from for the rest of their lives. Being ashamed of it. Yet, actually rather being ashamed of themselves. Because they can't explain the incomprehensible in any other way. Thus they remain trapped in the ineffable.

No movie for every mood.
Yet, when the time is right, then definitely worth it.





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Spoiler alert:
Here the unspeakable is spoken out at last. There is an unexpected showdown that has it all. Something that is liberating. Yes, it hurts, again – just like cold fingers starting to feel the warmth… True enough, healing is a process. (Life hardly becomes smooth&easy overnight.)
Acknowledging the corset. That is the first step. Feeling it, joggling it. This is the next step. Then get on the trail of your own feelings. Find some expression for it. Surrender to your vita and what you sur-vived so far. Let go of the corset, by now being grown and old enough to stand by your side. Grab your inner child´s hand and allow yourself to be who you are, embracing the feelings you have. All of them. The anger, helplessness and desperation, too. Be proud of who you are. Daring, step ahead. Longing to be. Being free to be. Being palpable. Being. Sharing. Communicating... giving life a second chance...

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this is terrible don’t let those tiktok recommendation videos fool you

This movie is utter trash and if you enjoy spending your time watching paint dry you’d probably enjoy this. Pointless and stupid attempt at trying to make a deep/edgy movie which doesn’t really have any sort of bigger picture it was just a bunch of randomness with a depressing backstory for the main character thrown in to mask the lack of an actual story. Main character was insufferable and stupid and why did that dude randomly just start beating her after wanting to help her (which didn’t really make any sense in the first place they were strangers and were introduced like they knew the two girls) ? and if I can remember correctly why did the second fml start joining in ? All in all this movie makes 0 sense no matter how much you look at it and is a waste of your time. Do not be fooled by the ppl on tiktok recommending this under the thriller genre it’s garbage.

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THIS MOVIE WAS SO GOOD

I recommend this movie to everyone. If ur having second thoughts about watching it just watch it, I promise u this movie is good. It was sad and made me cry a lot but was also very eye opening. The acting is super good. The way the actors portray the emotions is just *chefs kiss* WATCH IT PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Intentional Nudge in the Right Direction

For all intensive purposes, I was rather impressed with this movie. It had been sitting in my To Watch list for at least 2-3 years. I might have watched the beginning of the movie in the past, but just never committed to finishing it. Finally sat down and watched the whole thing.
It took a very poetic approach, which I wasn't expecting. Even though this is about a director that wrote a play about two men that have a romantic relationship with each other, the movie doesn't go in depth about it, but it should of, because the play talks about very important issues, like what its like being in a toxic relationship, and how the dynamic of the two actors shifts drastically because of the nature of the play. Its also about having such a strong hold on someone, like your chained to them, and you can't escape, and that is what made this movie so suspenseful to watch.
Something that also impressed me was how the older ML takes method acting very literally, and how that is reflected off stage. I could almost sense what Jae Ha was feeling in the moments when he was alone and there were no cameras, and in that way, this movie shed a light on societal pressures on how men are expected to behave and conduct themselves. A part of me wanted to believe that he wanted to be the person he was suppressing, but in a unique, unexpected way, he was just always in character.
If anything, I wish it could've been longer, and had more to say. It was a very light watch.

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