The Flaming Heart (2021)

Not Even Gong Jun Can Save This

I was skeptical about this show, to begin with, but I tried to watch it anyway for Gong Jun. Even so, it fell lower than my low expectations of it. There is no chemistry between the leads, the scenes are absolutely unrealistic, and all the female characters are spoiled, immature, and incredibly annoying.

The FL makes terrible decisions and just expects things to work out for her. She is absolutely undeserving to be a doctor. She is childish, wants things done her way, and doesn't respect anyone else's preferences or advice. The ML told her about his phobia, and as a doctor, instead of understanding it, she laughs at it and then subjects him to his phobia without his consent and thinks it's funny.

The SFL is a rookie firefighter, and even ignoring the fact that she is a tiny and physically weak female (I'm not being biased, that is how she's portrayed in the show), she still somehow passed the physically strenuous Firefighting exams. But as a rookie on the team, she disregards authority or chain of commands, talks back to her squad leader constantly, and even barks out orders to her senior colleagues. She is disrespectful and incompetent.

I was already tired of this show at episode 2 but pushed through to support Gong Jun's work, but I couldn't manage to get past Episode 5. Sorry Gong Jun, I hope you pick better scripts next time.

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Detailed well acted, scripted and directed show

Excellent show, extremely realistic illustration of the lives, equipments and routines followed by firefighters and well balanced romance.
The show is very detailed w.r.t all fire fighting scenes, basic knowledge and aids. It's very informative even to us as general public from other countries.
I absolutely love the show and mainly Gong Jun portrayal of Huo Yan is very endearing.
The dialogue delivery, the music, i love the OST is all extremely suitable for the show without overdoing anything.
The story line is crisp, well paced without any unnecessary drag.

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Fell flat

They tried to make the both medical and firefighter action scenes seem exciting or dangerous using dialogue, instead of using appropriate stage props, cgi, or direction to the actors. For example firefighters had a fight over a cat stuck 7 feet up in a tree, where one firefighter refused to climb up the 5 or 6 steps to untangle it's leash, cause "cats have 9 lives, I only have one!" A 6 feet fall onto grass isn't going to kill anyone. Lifting a piece of rubble off a guy's legs when a mild aftershock was coming caused another argument about risking multiple firefighters' lives to save his legs, although there was minimal rubble around and they only had to lift something and pull him out.
Most of the actors played their roles decently, so can't really blame them. The romance was obviously meant to carry the drama, but sadly the FL was lacking in conveying emotion and progression of all romances was oddly disjointed due to poor script and bad editing. Not even sure why the couples like each other, they just suddenly became couples with a few minutes of interaction scattered throughout the initial episodes. It seems like they tried to cram in everything they could, so there is not much time spent on how things all develop. Those that didn't get along are suddenly friends(ML and other firefighters. ML and SML, FL and female Dr love rival) or lovers (the rookie and the squad leader, nurse and firefighter), so it's hard for viewers to connect with the romances or brotherhood emotionally. Overall bad editing, writing, and poor directing choices make it a difficult, somewhat boring watch, even for someone like me that is purely looking for entertainment and willing to overlook flaws in logic, plot, cgi, etc.
Gong Jun just couldn't save it no matter how charming he was.

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So-so

Everything is so-so in this drama or worth... I was watching to find something similar to You are my heroe... Error
The worst: editing
The best: opening song

I don't know what is the point of all the story... Is it a patriotic drama? Are they trying to depict an idealistic picture of firefighters and doctors? If it's the case, it's a mess... Particularly in the medical aspect... I won't let my life in the hands of the FL or her colleagues.

The romantic aspect doesn't higher up my feeling about this whole show.

Deception, I like this kind of drama but everything around the theme of rescue, is a mess.

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What you made me do

After having read multiple comments and reviews, Ithink we can all agree that we have been waiting for this drama for Gong Jun.
He has made a tremendous amount of progress in his acting, but unfortunately there is no chemistry with the FL.
It's less weird than in Flavour it's yours, i would even say that it's as good as in The Love Equations,but the plot and editing were just so bad i could not continue after half a dozen episodes.
We're all familiar with those action and romance dramas, we have had My Dear Guardian this year after all and You are my hero not that long ago. However, The Flaming Heart could have brought something new...something better than nonsense.
I often had to watch some parts of the episodes because i did not follow what was happening. For example, ML is at a coffee and he walks away from the FL who recognizes him..and next episode another day has started. No conversation whatsoever . It's only one of the numerous examples of what is wrong with the cuts and while it's a running joke in Advance Bravely, the drama has an excuse since it's a BL.
I'm annoyed at the shaky camera, and my poor eyes were suffering so much i almost got sick .
Finally, the plot.
What plot ?
No plot.
Their romance makes no sense,the FL is annoying because she spends her time doing 'medical stuff' even a 5 year old would do better,and when she's not killing people,she is making fun of the ML. There's one thing i hate,it's how she reacted when she learned about his phobia. She spends her time depending on others to do stuff and then do something really reckless like leaving her group and searching for honey pot or something. SHE DID NOT EVEN GET THE HONEY AFTER ALL THE TROUBLE SHE PUT EVERYONE THROUGH . WHAT A JOKE.
The other doctor ends up on a date with her crush for absolutely no reason, the female firefighter is as clumsy as a drunk toad...
I have not been able to relate or even appreciate the female characters. At all.
Even Gong Jun's hair,smile,voice,moles,eyes,uniform and body could not make up for the hell those first episodes put me through.

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I love Gongjun and his acting but the script really frustate me, truy.

I'm already in ep 6, but for some reason I think the script keeps going downhill, the problem is not with the actors, I think so far their acting is good and there are no problems.

imho so many bad scenes from the start, especially in the rescue process because this drama mainly focuses on firefighters and based on real stories so I had high expectations.

In the tunnel scene I thought it would be a big opening scene for the drama, my imagination thought that the tunnel would explode or something big like that, I started to wonder when the firefighters entered the tunnel without gas masks, did not rush to put out the fire, and did not rush to move the victim out of the tunnel, but it turned out that the scene was just hype to save a pregnant woman and there was no other rescue scene.

In the building scene, where FL is thrown and trapped inside..why? Why did they put the medical too close to the fire site?? Oh my god that's so dangerous. And when the girl got caught in the fire, I don't think the fire was big enough at the time, but they didn't rush in to save her as soon as they could, and just ordered her to close the windows on each floor and tell her to go upstairs to wait for rescuers. I don't understand if this is true or not as I don't know much about firefighters, but this sight definitely bothered me. In the scene following the medical firefighter training, I was also speechless. FL went alone to look for victims, didn't wait for the rescue team to come first, luckily nothing happened to him. And the absurd debate with their leader whether to operate on the victim on the spot or save him first (helloww, he will die if he is not operated on on the spot, and it's just a simple operation process so why are they arguing and wasting time)

still 6 episodes and there are so many flaws in the script not to mention talking about love stories that hmmmm... hufft. But I'll stay (with some fast forwarding) because I love dramas about firefighters and I love gongjun I hoping this drama will getting better in the next episodes..
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UPDATE
I've dropped this drama since eps 8, but decided to jump to eps 22-24 for watching the final arc
and the result, I gotten more speechless with this drama. When Huo Yan went to save Yan Lan his head hit so many times by enemy...by a group of people in road, also by his main enemy. His head...hitten with a chair (until the chair shatters into pieces), hit with an iron pipe! and then he fell from the second floor .
okay I can still accept that he's still alive after everything but what doesn't make sense to me is...after coming out of the operating room there are only little scratc and a littlepatch in his forehead that look FAKE!just that, not even a bandage around his head, hey where are thse previous wounds?did his head made from rock? I know it's a drama but can't you make a little more sense?

What make me dissapointed more is this actually a potential drama, thry have great actor too but sadly it not executed well.

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De javu????

I am NOT an expect in scrutinizing dramas but I have watched many drama (kdrama,jdrama, cdrama), so i will just give my 'cent on this drama..

I really just can't help NOT writing anything, been usinf MDL fro drama synopsis, and sometimes reading reviews.. and I just Cant....

I am currently watching ep.9 of this drama and cant stop comparing.. rathwe comparing, my mind always say, "I think I know/sen this plot"..
Since 1st ep, I have seen similarities of this drama in Angel Eyes (kdrama), most specially DOTS, then keep comparing and questioning myself if it is aired along with My Dear Guardian and You are My Hero --- which I have confirmed that YMH aired in Mar-Apr, MDG aired in Jun-Jul then FH aired in Jul 2021.

I knowww its a competition of angencies and network and I know DOTS have a BIG influence on the drama, but really??? *sigh*

All in all, I am disappointed since I can also see potential on the drama, as well as the actors BUT ( I am honestly questioning WHY HER AS THE MAIN LEAD???)

Anyways, I will still give the drama a chance and finish it (mosylt with skips and all) since also I will personally haunt myself when i do not finish drama I have started.

*I hope someone will read my 1st ever review!
** to you, please do tell me your reaction on my review ;)

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I'm here for Gong Jun.

From suspenseful to stale.

My first impression isn't all that great. The first 15 minutes told me what I hope to expect from the drama and the last 5 minutes said, "But we'll throw in a few cliches and annoying tropes."

It's okay so far; nothing special. I liked Gong Jun's acting (of course) and it was nice to see two familiar faces—Luo Yi and Wang Zi Wei. But the FL and SL don't look like they'll be my favourite characters.

But this drama might shape up to be a trainwreck. I learned very early to trust my instincts about dramas... I'm gonna give it 4 episodes. Although the action and rescue scenes are good, those aren't the only things I should be watching the drama for.

Also, try not to watch this with a critical mind... This drama doesn't take itself too seriously (imo).

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Al peggio non c'è mai un limite

Non ho mai dato un voto così basso nemmeno al più brutto drama visto finora e forse starò un pochetto esagerando ma questo è davvero... Un insulto. Insulta tutti i drama appartenenti alla categoria medico/ospedalieri/ forze armate. E' la cosa più obbriobriosa che io abbia mai visto. Sulla scia di You Are My Hero hanno deciso di prendere un po' spunto ma io mi chiedo come certe produzioni possano vedere la luce. Quello che ci viene raccontato è il clichè dei clichè di tutti, ma non è un difetto purchè sia ben supportato e ben sviluppato. In questo drama troviamo una gestione degli episodi che è ridicola: le scene d'azione finiscono in una ventina di minuti se tutto va male, le scene in cui la prestanza medica è necessaria sono al limite del ridicolo e durano un paio di minuti. Il montaggio è fatto alla cavolo, non si capisce nulla, ci sono tagli dove non dovrebbero esserci, ci sono situazioni che non si capisce bene come stia funzionando, inquadrature traballanti e pressochè inutili. La recitazione è pessima, e molte volte si vede benissimo il doppiaggio. Funziona proprio male.
Io davvero non so che dire.

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