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GiGi
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Dec 2, 2019
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Acting/Cast 10
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Rewatch Value 10
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Ending is not what you think, Please Read my Review

Now I see why everyone is crazy about Lee Min Ho... I loved the storyline but there was a glitch. There is only one small minimal thing I didn't like and it was the ending. Another cliffhanger left you wondering if he was alive or just an illusion. I hate those kinds of endings... No hug nor did he give her the ring. The writers did get me on one part and that is when the prosecutor died. Park Ming Young was great and another actress that showed her strength. This story wouldn't have happened without the other actors and actresses. Great job everyone even though this was back in 2011... I'm 8 years late in watching this.

Because I mentioned that I didn't like the last few minutes of the ending. I had to research to see if anyone else felt the same as I did. I found a clip from the writer, please read it. I am happy that Na Na and Yoon Sung did reunite at the end. You writers need to stop making these sorts of endings.

ENDING COMMENT BY WRITER: "Lee Yoon Sung' (Lee Min Ho). In the final scene, Yoon Sung and 'Na Na' (played by Park Min Young) were reunited in a happy ending, but some viewers were left to believe that Yoon Sung was actually a ghostly figure. However, the producer, Kim Yong Sup, stated to TVDaily on July 29th, "Yoon Sung is not dead". Kim Yong Sup elaborated, "Lee Yoon Sung (Lee Min Ho) sustained a bullet shot in the last episode, but after much time passes, he eventually meets Kim Na Na. He doesn't appear as a ghost as it was actually just a time jump that we had set up. Of course, I respect the arbitrary interpretation of the viewers. However, just the fact that Yoon Sung didn't die is, strictly speaking, the definition of a happy ending. The director and writer put in the scene with this as their mindset."

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Irene
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Aug 29, 2017
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Overall 8.5
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Music 9.0
Rewatch Value 8.5
I watched City Hunter after watching Healer and came out slightly disappointed.

I think if you watched City Hunter when it came out you would have been blown away by how good and unique it is but newer shows steadily improve in writing, acting, and execution.

LMH was decent in this drama. I didn't understand the love line, but it was decently done. Also happy that PMY was a strong female lead!

The "city hunting" was very satisfying and one of the reasons why I watched this all the way through. There's nothing we as drama watchers love more than overcoming injustice and revealing the truth to all.

Also the character conflicts were interesting, especially between the main lead and his adoptive father.

I really respect dramas that try to incorporate it all, from crime fighting to action to romance. City Hunter is worth a watch if you like these genres all combined into one satisfying show!

Also, perhaps I am spoiled by American TV but I just thought what they showed as the Blue House and president were very unrealistic? Won't say any more here for risk of spoiling but curious at what everyone else thinks.

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han iee
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May 15, 2017
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Overall 9.0
Story 9.5
Acting/Cast 9.5
Music 10
Rewatch Value 8.0
Good storyline and plot for action drama, even though the first 2 episodes kind of slow. The story makes us surprise and plot twist. Every episode makes the audiences curious what's next. Great music background. Really match every scene, especially during fighting scene. Those who really likes action drama without worry having less romance, this is it. The ending of the main story is great and satisfy. However, the epilogue ending could been better.
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Chia6
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Dec 3, 2019
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Acting/Cast 5.5
Music 8.0
Rewatch Value 3.5
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I thought Lee Minho played his role really well. Of course his cool looking cute face gave him the advantage. However, Park Min Young didn’t stood out. Her acting and facial expression was not memorable at all. If there is a part two, would like to see a different actress that is more compatible with Lee MinHo charm. No way City Hunter got shot on his left chest and still alive, unless he wear bullet prove vest. I guess it is better to see good ending then bad. Lee Sang Jun played City Hunter adopted revenge father really well. His eyes full of depth.
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annalovesdramas
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Jun 9, 2019
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Acting/Cast 7.0
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Rewatch Value 7.0

One of Lee Min Ho's Best Work

I really like this drama when I watched it almost a decade ago. It has everything I enjoy in a drama: revenge, secret identity, sleek action, cute romance and handsome/beautiful lead actors and the production team executed all of them perfectly. This drama exemplifies everything I associate about a k-drama and I mean this in the best way. I consider Lee Min Ho a mediocre actor but with leading actor charisma and his charisma really made him shine here. Park Min Young was adorable and beautiful here. I 100% recommend this drama .
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Dramacraze101
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Nov 19, 2012
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Overall 7.0
Story 9.0
Acting/Cast 10
Music 8.0
Rewatch Value 6.0
The story plot is really good and i quite enjoy this drama but it was very disappointing on the last episode... i was hoping the writer of this drama would end this story with a great climax but it didn't end the way i hope it would be.... where the man gets the girl and live happily after but i guess that only happens in fairy tales not in drama.... Overall City hunter is a great DRAMA,,, and i recommend it to all ages but the ending is such a downer....
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chami
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May 26, 2017
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Acting/Cast 10
Music 10
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Where ever Min ho, I love it..!! His performance is superb and he has proved he is one awesome actor, I believe he actually still didn't get dramas up to his talent, and hope he will get after 2 years military enlistment, Hope he will get another drama similar and even more better than City Hunter, coz this type of drama reveals his talent.

Overall, good acting by entire cast, I love the girl from bride of the century, i was searching for her drama, but overall good drama, Minoz can watch it many times since its full of our handsome boy...

Recommend to all try it....

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Alicja
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Feb 25, 2017
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Overall 9.0
Story 9.0
Acting/Cast 9.0
Music 10
Rewatch Value 10
I really liked this drama. The best role of Lee Min Ho. He really show here that he can act. I like the romance from this drama. Maybe only political plot was little bit too difficult for me sometimes :/
But I LOVE the music from the moments when he was fighting!
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Toxicity
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Jan 6, 2021
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Overall 1.0
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Acting/Cast 7.0
Music 6.5
Rewatch Value 1.0
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Wtf is this

Dude's father got murdered and wtf is he doing wasting precious time i have no fkin idea. :S it is hella boring. I have heard they took this show from a manga and while the elements of manga are there it doesnt add up. Most of the episode is him just wasting his and that girls time and i am really not a fan of unnecessary stuff in a drama thats 50+ minutes long.
**EDIT*****
I CAN'T FKIN BELIEVE I FELL FOR ITS HIGH RATING. this is no doubt the worst emotions driven shit show j have ever seen all thay crap of 28 years of revenge were for nothing in the final episode we all wasted our time. Please dont waste your precious time watching thid shitshow ever in your life. Go watch something like forest of secrets or signal.

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BORA
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Dec 17, 2015
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Overall 10
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Music 10
Rewatch Value 10
This Drama is The Best Action Korean Drama. The acting is Good, You can never get bored with This Drama. This is my 10th time watch it and i'm not Bored
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Raven Mikhail
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Jun 29, 2016
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Music 10
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Best action drama! Everyone acted so well especially Lee Min Ho - my favorite actor. Its a must watch and I recommend this show to everyone.
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Linda Murua
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Lee Joon Hyuk como el fiscal caído del cielo que destapa la hediondez donde se embadurnan los que gobiernan es probablemente uno de los que mejor se adapta a su papel, junto con Kim Sang Jung, que se lleva el número del villano de la historia, un soldado hundido en desgracia después de haber sido traicionado por la patria que juró defender. Porque Steve Lee es un pesado, así sin más. Si hay algo que hace a un villano interesante no es precisamente su nivel de maldad o lo que es capaz de hacer para lograr su objetivo, sino los motivos ocultos detrás de su malícia. Steve Lee se pasa esto por el forro y nos regala una nula intriga durante todo el show porque en cada episodio tiene que recordarnos por qué motivo está haciendo lo que está haciendo y la razón por la que no puede abandonar el camino que durante casi treinta años lleva delineando.

Tardé un poquito en engancharme a la serie, pero a partir del séptimo episodio caí rendida a su pies con aquel disparo que retumbó en todo el edificio. El final del noveno también estuvo soberbio. Por desgracia, sentí que a partir del décimo episodio, no decae, sino que se estanca en una trama que tarda muchísimo en avanzar y eso desinfla la línea argumental en todos los sentidos, se paralizan muchos caminos que deberían avanzar y ciertas subtramas se quedan en nada (como el coma del papá de Na Na, del que ya no sabemos nada sino hasta llegar al final).

Lee Young Sung y Kim Na Na son la pareja protagonista de esta serie... pero vaya melodrama, oye. Tuvieron sus escenitas (dos/tres) que me parecieron bonitas y tiernas, y de ahí en fuera todo se quedó muy seco. Para la recta final resulta insoportable verles compartir una escena porque todas están para cortarse las venas, empacar las maletas y huir a Tailandia a venderle droga a tu abuela. Si hay algo que me mantuvo viendo la serie durante sus primeros episodios fue precisamente la relación tan punzocortante que tenían. Porque su inicio fue bueno —algo retorcido pero bueno— y el hecho de saber que Young Sung tenía prohibido enamorarse le daba al asunto esa tensión lo suficientemente firme como para imaginar a dónde nos llevaría la relación de ambos. Pues no, como dije: todo se quedó en nada. Esta pareja jamás brillo. El problema no fueron los actores, que dieron todo lo que tenían para ofrecer, sino que el guión no daba para más. Cuando se estanca la serie se estanca también la evolución de los personajes (si es que alguna vez la hubo); la relación, que en un principio parecía tierna, se transforma en un escenario exasperante, donde nunca pueden estar en sincronía porque él dice una cosa y hace otra, o viceversa.

EL GUIÓN. La trama es buenísima, da para exprimirla hasta el cansancio y sacarle muchísimo jugo, pero a los guionista se les murieron las ideas antes de tiempo y casi la mitad de la serie de transformó en algo innecesario. Aunado a eso, la evolución de los personajes es nula; de hecho, en el caso de Young Sung retrocede bastante conforme la situación es crítica y la recta final se comienza a vislumbrar, más o menos al tiempo que se entera de quién es en verdad él, la historia de sus padres y las motivaciones de Jin Pyo para convertirlo en su discípulo asesino. Es algo triste de ver porque la que paga los platos rotos es Kim Na Na y uno no anda precisamente de humor para tolerar esos diálogos chirriantes y contradictorios de Young Sung.

Ésta, creo yo, es otra errata en el guión: Hay cinco rostros responsables de la reprochable Operación Barrido. Todos ellos prosperaron y lograron puestos importantes, y son precisamente estas personas las que Young Sung tiene que aniquilar. Vale. Pero de estas cinco figuras existen dos, creo yo, que debieron acaparar a las otras tres porque resultan importante para el trío protagonista de la serie: Kim Jong Shik (padre del fiscal y responsable directo del accidente de los padres de Na Na) y Choi Eung Chan (Presidente de la República y de paso el padre biológico de Kim Young Sung). Pues bueno, el drama comienza con un ritmo compartido: cada ciertos episodios caía uno de los cinco y de verdad esperaba que el ritmo frenara un poco con estos dos individuos para profundizar más en sus pasados tan turbulentos. El padre del fiscal tuvo sus momentos, no lo voy a negar, pero el que se robó la vela en este entierro fue precisamente Chun Jae Man (¿quién?) un monopólico empresario que se adueñó de media Corea y de paso de la otra mitad de la serie. Hasta el sol de hoy no asimilo que le hayan dado tantos episodios a este hombre y sólo uno, UNO, al personaje más soberbio y magnífico de todo drama: el presidente Choi Eung Chan.

Choi Eung Chan viene a demostrarnos que la corrupción también puede ser cometida por un pan de dios. El carismático presidente tiene su toque de ternura y simpatía además de un aro de honestidad que lo convierte en un personaje sobrio, tímido y entrañable. Como espectadores nos cuesta entender que alguien como él se haya manchado las manos de sangre o haya recurrido al soborno para promover campañas políticas o aprobar una ley que beneficiaría a todos los universitarios del país. Incluso nos hace cuestionar si ciertas corrupciones son mejores que otras; algo que encara el propio Young Sung cuando se infiltra a su casa en busca de evidencias. Magnífico hubiera sido que le aportaran más tiempo del que le dieron para exponer sus ideas y convicciones y de paso para darnos una cátedra de por qué en la política a veces se recurre a atajos para lograr un bien mayor.

Hay algunos secundarios que vale la pena mencionar: Bae Shik Joong como el cocinero-comprador-compulsivo que es tan adorable como simpático, Da Hye (la hija del presidente) que comenzó siendo una niña mimada y caprichosa para dar el salto a la joven responsable y trabajadora que vemos al final; Lee Kyung Hee, señorona que jamás pudo superar el secuestro de su bebé y que al parecer la vida siempre se ha ensañado con ella de manera bestial pero se las arregla para salir adelante; los vecinos pequeñitos de Na Na que también tuvieron su odisea, o los colegas de los protagonistas en la Casa Azul y los subordinados del fiscal, y la mano izquierda de Steve Lee. Estrellitas para todos.

ES UN BUEN DRAMA. El hecho de que sea una serie de acción evita que resulte aburrida; siempre hay una escena que se roba cada episodio y que sabe explotar el potencial de la trama. Nunca faltan las piruetas en el aire y las patadas giratorias para aplaudir frente a la pantalla y apoyar al City Hunter frente a los villanos (o frente a su propio maestro). A su favor, y al de sus fans más leales, podría decir que no es mi tipo y no me imagino volver a verlo jamás en la vida —así de pasable me pareció xD— pero de que tuvo sus momentitos épicos los tuvo. El final me supo predecible e insípido pero tampoco es que pudiera ser distinto. Los últimos dos minutos sí que me hacen sentir pena ajena por la pareja protagonista porque, asumo que a la larga quedaron juntos, pero ese encuentro cuquis en el aeropuerto y luego Young Sung quemando llanta él solito por las calles de Seúl me dejó cuatrapeada y confusa porque no sé qué mensaje intentaron darnos con eso.

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