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First half Great, Second Half was Layers of Dumb Decisions
The story was really good around the first 30 minutes of the film. It hits you with a dark and sad reality of the lower class, to make you feel for the characters. When you think our main leads can't go any lower, surprise2 they just keep digging themselves deeper due to their dumb decisions, and i guess i should've realized then that it's just downhill from there, story-wise.
In the real world, when you win the lotto, what is the smart thing to do? Obviously, you tell no one, but here our characters just kept involving other people, leading to more casualties after stealing someone's money. The revenge was already done after the heist. They should've run far away, but they turned it into Robin Hood-type shit, which can look cool, but if you ask me, it's pretty dumb when the movie is set to be grounded in reality. Well, i guess there are a lot of ways to take that route and make it good, but really, even since the heist, it's just layers of dumb and pointless decisions leading to unnecessary outcomes.
The pacing is pretty fast, which i didn't really mind since they did a good job of telling the main points so that you can atleast follow, but i still have a lot of questions character-wise, because there wasn't really much to fully flesh them out, so it was hard to get invested in them.
The acting is the only saving grace of this movie, as always with Korean actors. Don't need to say much about that. The only thing that was surprising to me in this regard was YooA from Oh My Girl. I didn't know she had entered the acting industry. The moment she was shown on screen, she exuded such strong stage presence. Her acting was really good.
Overall, I've been eager to watch this ever since it was announced, as I'm a fan of both actresses, but i just kinda forgot about it since it took so long. Nonetheless, I stumbled upon it randomly, so I went in without any prior knowledge, but left disappointed.
In the real world, when you win the lotto, what is the smart thing to do? Obviously, you tell no one, but here our characters just kept involving other people, leading to more casualties after stealing someone's money. The revenge was already done after the heist. They should've run far away, but they turned it into Robin Hood-type shit, which can look cool, but if you ask me, it's pretty dumb when the movie is set to be grounded in reality. Well, i guess there are a lot of ways to take that route and make it good, but really, even since the heist, it's just layers of dumb and pointless decisions leading to unnecessary outcomes.
The pacing is pretty fast, which i didn't really mind since they did a good job of telling the main points so that you can atleast follow, but i still have a lot of questions character-wise, because there wasn't really much to fully flesh them out, so it was hard to get invested in them.
The acting is the only saving grace of this movie, as always with Korean actors. Don't need to say much about that. The only thing that was surprising to me in this regard was YooA from Oh My Girl. I didn't know she had entered the acting industry. The moment she was shown on screen, she exuded such strong stage presence. Her acting was really good.
Overall, I've been eager to watch this ever since it was announced, as I'm a fan of both actresses, but i just kinda forgot about it since it took so long. Nonetheless, I stumbled upon it randomly, so I went in without any prior knowledge, but left disappointed.
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