The episodes based in Tailand are fantastic, it made me fall in love with Lee Min ho's acting and style all over again!
The action scenes and ideas were well choreographed and stunning to watch. I had edge-of-my-seat-jaw dropping moments quite a few times during this series.
Apart from a few disappointment (deaths) in the series, the drama is excellent to watch.
Was this review helpful to you?
Was this review helpful to you?
Even if the investigation and special effects lack a bit of professionalism, this drama is my favorite so far.. it is far from the boring, common, predictable k-drama.
I can't think of anyone giving a negative review for this drama... so watch it and you will not regret your 20 hours spent on it ;)
Was this review helpful to you?
Was this review helpful to you?
HERE IS YOUR DRAMA!
This has got to be one of my favourite dramas that I have seen. Started from EPISODE 1 it GRABBED your attention and got you hooked & emotional attached.
Yoo Sung (Lee Min Ho) and Nana (Park Min Young) are the cutest thing alive. They are AH-MAZING actors and actress. Ahh~ they really need to date in real life.
All the characters have their on lil charm that well make you love em'. But others well get on your nerves and make you want to jump into your computer screen and shoot them yourself.
There are many fighting scenes and MAN are they FRIGGIN AWESOME! Just. I can't explain it, you have to see it to know how I feel.
All I say is WATCH THE DRAMA. YOU WELL HAVE NO REGRET!
Was this review helpful to you?
Was this review helpful to you?
The acting was fantastic in my opinion. Lee Min Ho, Lee Joon Hyuk's acting chops were superb. Special mention goes out to Kim Sang Joong (Jin Pyo) and Hwang Sun Hee (Saehee). Sang Joong's portrayal of Jinpyo was so good, i hated him (and felt pity for him) so much! And i loved the character Saehee, although she was a supporting role. Chemistry between Min Ho and Min Young was amazing and you can't help falling in love with them ♥♥ (there's a reason why they're dating~~)
The cinematography was fabulous, all the shots, explosions, stunts were meticulously planned and it really got my heart racing a little bit faster. This drama was everything IRIS was not - it had amazing action directors and cinematography.
All in all, City Hunter is a drama worth watching. 10점 만점에 10점!
Was this review helpful to you?
BUT THIS IS A DRAMA YOU MUST WATCH!!!
What's in this drama? Suspens, action, love, sometimes a bit of humour... In short, a great plot! All along, I kept wondering how Lee Yoon Sung would take revenge for his father's death.
Well, you might find it strange I didn't rate the story 10/10. Actually, there are two minor things I didn't like.
1°) I tought some love / sentimental scenes were way too long.
2°) As for Nana, I've got nothing against the actress but the character sometimes seemed too frail to be a Blue House bodyguard. I know City Hunter is supposed to be the best of the best but the gap between them was just too big.
Was this review helpful to you?
I already got hooked up after the first episode, and I never got dissapointed of a single one, which I think is a huge achievement for 20 episodes.
I laughed, cried or just got hyper, even only because of the music they chose. And the best thing is: the end isn't predictable.
So in all I would say you just can't go wrong with watching this drama :)
Was this review helpful to you?
City Hunter is very well rounded with a plot that lacks nothing. It shows that revenge can be something that binds us as well as sets us free.
OH MY goodness the acting was superb. I hated the father and the prosecutor until the last possible second and then all that hate disappeared and I found myself crying because I found my love for them so late. Lee Min Ho does not disappoint (oh the shirt-less scenes!!!!!!! Don't even get me started on the kissing). He was able to embody all fassets of Lee Yoon Sung from the innocent teenager, to the fierce adult seeking revenge, to a man falling in love, and a confused son seeking the love of his father. And Park Min Young was an amazing Kim Na Na. Not only was she able to embody a woman whose personality doesn't allow her to understand those she thinks to be wrong but she was able to throw that aside to protect Yoon Sung.
I admit I was extemely skeptical at first. I'm not a huge fan of action dramas and I thought that part of the drama would over power the romance but it only added to it. It was the perfect blend.
A MUST MUST MUST MUST see!!!!!!!!
Was this review helpful to you?
The characterization felt sometimes off for 1-2 characters, and there was some back and forth on a certain front that went far too long.
But, it was still a good and enjoyable series, with lots of awesome action scenes, a marvellous OST (especially the music score, absolutely great- some momenets were executed greatly accompanied by the music alone) and you get your romance, too. (with your obligatory unecessary angst ofc but well)
p.s if you came here after reading/watching the manga/anime, then let me tell you it's barely (more like nothing) like the original story so don't expect anything and complain later- it's mostly the title.
Was this review helpful to you?
This review may contain spoilers
IT's really good, but could be awseome
First of all, I didn’t read the manga so I don’t know how much the drama stays true to the story of the book, but in fact it’s not the most important thing.I was really hooked on this drama, the action scenes are the best I've seen. Even though it was 2011, I watched after seeing K-2 and Healer and found the action scenes better. The performance of the entire cast is very good and the characters were very well prepared by the actors, which makes the story much more credible. The OST is generally good. The romance develops slowly and the scenes between the protagonists are sweet and funny, the push/pull game works but up to a certain point. And the plot is sensational !!
The series has an excellent development and a very good pace, where everything is happening very well tied up until the 13th episode ... After that it starts to drag and it is very difficult to watch without pressing the FF button. Many scenes without context or even, in a way, repetitive. And the relationship between the protagonists falls apart. That push / pull thing that was working ends up getting annoying and that nice tension between them just disappears. This drama could have 16 episodes instead of 20 and I'm sure it would be much better.
Now let's talk about the ending - SPOILER ALERT.
After dragging the story for more than 5 episodes, the director decides that everything will be solved in the last one and that leaves, contrary to what he wanted, several open ends and everything gets very confused.
After the shooting where Yoon Sung and Jin Pio are shot, JP assumes all crimes by saying he is the real City Hunter, but says that this person - YS in this case - has to die and the two end up unconscious and covered in blood on the floor. Cut to a year ahead where it is assumed that YS is dead, because his mother moves to the USA with the ahjussi with a very sad face and Na Na meets with friends and they mention that it has been a year since YS is no longer over there. Cut (yes, just like that) A Na Na scene dragging a suitcase where she seems to see YS, she runs and he appears behind her, they look at each other and smile and cut. The last scene is YS driving a car through the city at night. The End!
Really ??? WTF?? If he wanted to imply that he did not die, there are other ways ... and, if he did not die, what's the need for him to hide the fact that he is alive from his mother? Why would he continue as City Hunter ?? I really didn't like this ending, because I think it was not faithful to everything the character developed throughout the series: what he wanted the most was to have a happy life with the people he loved and that would be very possible since JP confessed to be the real City Hunter. Now, if he really died, what was the scene where Na Na and he meet? Delirium??? And the driving scene?? LAME !!
My ending: After the shooting, the ambulance arrives and takes YS, Na Na goes beside him (the camera moving and defocusing and an appropriate soundtrack convey her suffocating and desperate feeling about what is happening) they arrive at the hospital and he has to be resuscitated and end up in a coma. During this time, all the people with whom he created a bond will visit him, which shows that he is no longer a lonely guy. He is loved and has built true bonds, something he always wanted in life. After he regains consciousness, sitting on the bed, he puts his hand on his chest and misses something, opens the drawer of the side table: empty. The nurse enters and he asks where the necklace he was wearing is. At that same moment Na Na arrives and shows the hand with the ring. The ring his mother gave him and he hesitated all the time to put it in Na Na's hand because he was afraid. Cut to the scene / flashback where he opens the wooden box with the ring and with the bullet that his "father" was killed. He returns the bullet to JP and puts the ring on a necklace around his neck, as if to say that till that moment he lived to fulfill his promise of revenge, but now he will live to fulfill his promise to himself to be happy with the people he loves and have a normal life. Cut back to the hospital: the two look at each other, he takes her hand and kisses the ring, the tears roll, nothing needs to be said because they already know. The End!
Was this review helpful to you?
