Is the plot cliche and predictable? Pretty much.
Did I enjoy it? I definitely did.
I have struggled to love and like Kim Min Jung's character. And it kind of ruined the romance part-development of the show. But it had great comedic elements to it amid all the action. I found myself waiting for a new episode each week on Netflix. And it was an enjoyable watch.
This isn't for everyone and many will critique it, but even so I would recommend everyone to give this show a try. It starts off slow and develops over time. Maybe a bit jumping over some character and plot developments at times what make it a bit hard to believe. But hey, rarely any is perfect. And this drama kind of managed to get me back into the kdrama land, from which I had disappeared for years. So, it clearly isn't a bad watch!
The bromance is the greatest part. I just loved it!!
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Bromance + Cute Male Lead
This drama is underrated. I highly recommend this to other viewers. It’s actually a good watch in that the plot is interesting enough!The female lead should be changed though (imo) because she isn’t cute and she isn’t a very good actress (imo).
However, I have always liked the male lead and I thought that I’d give this drama a go for his sake. Surprisingly, the other male lead is rather adorable. He grows on viewers.
Watch because:
- plot is interesting and engaging
- plot is suspenseful
- male lead is swoon-worthy
- second male lead is manly
- bromance is cute
Overall, I’d say watch this because it’s really much better than many other poorly made dramas out there. Watch !
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I do have to ask this - why on earth when and guy and a girl are kissing, do they look as passionate and invested in the kiss as a couple of dried and salted mackerel at the fish market? It was that bloodless banging together of dead fish lips that made the romance a clinker most of all. I suppose it's cultural.
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The story is so cliche, but it’s entertaining and mostly funny. Most of the story really doesn’t make sense and unrealistic. I wish they would take the spy special agent part of the story more serious and realistic since Park Hae Jin is really great for this kind of story. It’s just too over the top and weird most of the time.
I love the bromance between Hae Jin and Park Soo Wong. They have such an amazing chemistry together. Their relationship looks natural and cute. It should be the main focus and main relationship. I really dislike the romance between Hae Jin and the girl, I don’t see why he could fall in love with her, it doesn’t look natural and it’s unbelievable.
Don’t get me started on how bad I think the girl acting is. Her acting is soooo... over the top, unnatural and full of big eyes that doesn’t relay any emotions other than making her look crazy idiotic. Oh and don’t forget all that high pitched screaming. Please just delete her.
The music is ok, nothing that I particularly like.
I would rewatch some scene, especially the interaction between Hae Jin and Soo Wong, but I would definitely skip anything with the girl in it.
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Yes!
This was the second Korean action drama that I watched after watching Rugal. Again as I say in all of my reviews I didn't know Korean dramas existed until watching Rugal last year. After seeing that I tried to find any and every Korean action drama that I could find and this was the second one.I wasn't familiar with the style of Korean dramas but since then I have found myself steering away from the romance type of dramas. I didn't notice the style last year but now I do. I loved the main character, the second main character, and the main character's partner. These three had the chemistry that I loved. I especially loved the bromance between the 1 & 2nd male characters. There were scenes that had me laughing hard.
I tolerated the female lead up to a certain point. She started off likeable but became a whiny love sick puppy in the end that made me cringe. This was the reason I started migrating away from romance dramas.
The fighting scenes were awesome. I kept going back to those scenes. This had somewhat of a James Bond style to it.
I haven't rewatched any of the action Korean dramas I've seen but sometime in the near future if I'm still alive, I will most definitely rewatch this again.
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The end killed me...
Well, I just finished this drama and...For me the end is not good. I want romantic plots and not action disguise with strange romance. For that I have HEALER or K2 or ...
There are some good moments. The chemistry between the 2 male leads ( don't think I could call it bromance) is good as the friendship.
OST - didn't get my attention
ACTING - was good, specially the male leads
REWATCH it? - no, never
The plot is boring, the romance is not interesting. I was expecting some more from the secondary couple but I don't get why she didn't divorce her husband. That doesn't make sense even if it was for the kid.
Bad bad bad for me... So there's a person that completely give up any happiness to be a spy and marry and have a kid with a man that is bad, treats her awful and blackmailed her with her child and ...
Stupid to me. How can a pragmatic woman do that?
Don't know what to say about that but, as I was reading some reviews, no one seems to care about that.
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Ironically, it was the relationship between Park Sung-woong's and Park Hae-jin's character that felt the most rewarding and kept me the most invested.
This was a great cast and they acted the heck out of the script. It was so pleasant to watch Park Sung-woong act as a goofball, since he can most often be seen acting in serious roles (both good guys and villains). Kim Min-jung and Park Hae-jin are drama veterans so they definitely did a great job.
Still an entertaining watch overall.
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One of the most outstanding Kseries I've ever seen!!!
Man to Man is one of the most excellent Kdrama ever, My friends and I went to see this series with very low expectations, and i can honestly say we were dead wrong. had me and my friends laughing the entire series. Also has interesting plot that keeps the series even more exciting, thrilling and worthwhile. A must see as we never stopped laughing. We absolutely loved this ! Me and my hommies Truly enjoyed watching Man to Man. Park hae jin is one of the best korean actor in korea and extremely handsome ! I was most impressed with PHJ range acting. He can be utterly funny and he's superb as an agent. He is great in this series... sexy... handsome....romantic..... and hilarious.The script, songs and senses of this series are too soothing and beautiful, This serial has got everything. The writing was great and worked perfectly. Additionally, the plot was great. Again, it was original and modern. It really felt different from any other action comedy romance k serial I've seen. This one will make you laugh in all episodes except few episodes which will make you cry. The cast makes an excellent whole and it is hard imagining switching anyone without affecting the whole outcome. OST goes along with the series just great, it just right, it sets the perfect mood for the viewer.
Kim min jung's performance is simply stunning... she's so cute, charming, funny and lovely. I really can't imagine anybody doing the job better than she did. Kim min jung giving one of the warmest, most sincere and funniest performances you'll ever see. i like her too much as the role matches her perfectly. When it comes to the romance with PHJ, I just have to say their relationship is genuine, sweet and absolutely adorable. Their dynamic is very interesting and entertaining. Not only do they provide comedic relief, they are an enjoyable couple too! If, you only really knew? How I felt while watching how cute they are. I go crazy because of them!
If I were you, Don't trust any nonsense negative reviews from horrible disgusting demons. Before I used to believe in them However quite recently my opinion on user reviews changed completely when I decided to watch Man to Man. Awesomeness indeed in this series But what did the other reviews say about this AWESOME series? It didn’t have an impact, nothing's funny and saying anything bad that they didn't know what the hell they are talking about. Plus, Had its moments but it wasn’t that great XDXDXDXDXDXD. After my friends and I completed watching the series, I see how the other stupid user show how rubbish they are. I was blown away by how awesome the series was and how everything was perfect. They explained a lot things that I was wondering about, it had a surprising twist to it and the ending was unexpected but marvelous anyway. There was a time when I honestly believed in the user reviews but after the nonsense they have been pulling about this awesome series I don’t trust them anymore.
Overall this is a surprisingly outstanding Kseries. i really enjoyed watching this. every episode gets better and better. i consider it as one of the best Kseries i've seen. I really recommend this series to everyone because I can guarantee you won't be disappointed!!!
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I haven't got enough disbelief to suspend to make this thing enjoyable.
SO...clearly a lot of people put a lot of effort into making this drama, and I fully respect that effort. However, this drama was pretty poorly executed. The story was long and drawn out with lots of inconsistencies and super slow parts. I think the flaw though was the role written for the female lead. It's pretty incompatible with the role written for the male lead. There didn't seem to be a lot of chemistry between the female and male lead, I believe the issue is primarily in the way the script depicted them both.While the story is standard enough, a spy who falls in love and wants to give up the spy life to pursue love, it's the love part that is its downfall. The spy is pretty clever and does all sorts of clever spy things....but the female lead is portrayed as a complete simpering idiot.....not in a loveable way, in a pretty obnoxious way. She seems to have a few skills and they could have made her pretty clever too, but instead they have her be an obnoxious, judgy, lovesick, bimbo...and it's pretty annoying to watch. There doesn't really seem to be anything in her personality or appearance that the spy would be able to fall in love with, especially not in the represented timeframe. She's basic as shit.
When you start with a flawed premise, the things that follow become flawed as well...the viewer is expected to suspend disbelief not only with the normal spy never dies and overcomes all odds shit, but also with the main love premise of the show, it's too much. I don't think casting a different female lead would have made a difference, I think the material she was given to work with was inherently flawed.
The side characters were actually pretty well written. Dark Death and his long lost love were both very fun to watch and their interactions were stellar....though her suddenly being accepted and taken into confidence by her estraned bad guy husband was a little hard to believe. The male spy handler dude was pretty well written as well and provided the only highly limited comic relief in this dry inconsistent drama.
Overall, I would not recommend this drama over most of the dramas I've seen and I for sure would never force myself to slog through it again. 5-stars might be too high, but I wanted to at least respect the effort that went into makingit.
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A nice drama with woefully poor rounding off of character arcs and main story
Firstly liked all 3 leads yes including FL. I thought she was perfect for ML could totally ship them and the writing let them down especially the ending.The action and general production were good premise was great execution really poor.
My biggest single issue was the story arc of the 2ML and his ex. We are clearly shown they are in love in the past, then suddenly she marries a chaebol. It is not explained but the hint is it was something weird like she had no choice. This feeling is reinforced all throughout she is always looking out for him and he obviously is not over her and was obviously heartbroken when it happened. So what they do with this intriguing plot line. Answer NOTHING. Unbelievably we never find out what happened and why she left him like that.
But there is worse. Her husband is basically a total bastard the villain of the piece. He threatens her is a violent psychopath and controls her by threatening not to let him see her son. He hates that she even indirectly cares about 2ML. She also helps bring him down he is clearly portrayed up to a point as her enemy her captor not lover or husband
But then unbelievably in the endgame she goes to prison with divorce papers and instead of having her triumphant moment of telling him where to go. She tears them up he smiles she nods sympathetically and says we will wait until hes older at least. Total character assassination IMO.
The only comment in the script to explain this even remotely. Is when her friend tells someone she has a complicated relationship with both men but cares for them both in her own way. Eh no not complicated one guy loved you with his whole heart the other guy "took" you and was a psycho.
Her last interaction with the 2ML is pathetic no closure no explanation. He just lets her off the hook and she is as smug and unapologetic as ever.
This epitomised the whole problem with the drama great cast great premise terible execution and poor script. Its like halfway through they backed out of dealing with the 2ML past and just threw in this terrible endgame for him and his ex
That alone was enough to ruin it. This was not a 2ndry couple this was a main lead it made me regret watching it.
That and the MCs incomplete ending as well which was really unsatisfying.
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This drama was meant to be a comedy spy drama...with ott goofy aspects...
It is enjoyable and very global commercial kinda story, so not ur typical K drama setting. No wonder netflix has this!
Watch like u would watch any american show...the only K thing is the comedy and the bromance...:)
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