Aman Chuniyana
Mumbai
Not good as previous season but not worst.
First, Sorry for my English as it's my second language.I'm a Big Kindaichi fan have watched almost every adaptation of it. So I can claim here with certainity that Season 3 is the weakest of all.
I was reluctant about because of Matsumoto Jun. Idols don't usually do well in acting. Despite all that, he did a decent job.
So Kindaichi case file, as the name suggest is Murder Mystery series, in which a murder happens every week and kindaichi have to solve it. Its easy to understand that the core of this show was Mystery. Kindaichi Manga have lots of great and complicated cases and that was the saving grace for this season. They watered down the cases for the audience which made the case quite easy to solve. Despite being called 3rd season, it's pretty much stand alone and have nothing to do with previous seasons. So I can it can be good as stater for the people who want to try Mystery genre.
As for characterization, they changed or flipped Miyuki's and Kindaichi's character. They turned kindaichi in edgy and introverted guy who loved eating a lot. I liked the change honestly and Jun did well. Actual Kimdaichi was happy go lucky and pervert and that's why I wasn't sure if jun would have potrayed him well. I think that's the reason why they changed his character. As for Miyuki! There was nothing much in her and they just turned her into a annoying loud girl. But I enjoyed the Kenmochi of this version way lot than 1st season and Neo. I can say that about Takato too.
In the Music department, there was nothing new as they reused much of the music of previous season, which I liked. They even added Arashi ED which I can say was okay is.
Overall a onetime watchable series which can be completed in one day.
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The setting and plot, though not unique, was kind of new for Japanese Movies. There lost of twist and turns in the movie but nothing that can get you on edge of your seat. I was able to predict most of the twist and so there was nothing in the movie that could have suprised me.
What I think is that they should have put some more effort to build up Mystery and Suspense.
If you have watched many Mystery Movie or have read Mystery Novels like me, then you might get disappointed.
The Acting was Good, but sometimes it felt fake to me. The Music was Okay.
It's an Entertaining but average Movie.
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I liked this Adaptation very much. They have spend lots of money on it.
Scenes from China were Gorgeous, Film Sets were Great and Costumes were very Good.
I don't listen to background Music so I can't say much anything about the music, but from what I remember, music was good too.
Now Acting.
I think Kento tried to intimate Shin from the Manga and that's why his Acting was bit off. Intimating a Shonen Hero in Live Action is a bad Idea.
Kanna did OK. If you compare it to her Horrible Acting in Saiki Kusuo, then she did way better in Kingdom.
Ryo performed very well despite doing hard stuff like playing double role.
Osawa as General Ouki did very well. Though my only Problem was that he wasn't that much tall and Muscular than in Manga, but he performed Ouki very well.
And for now the most hardest role in Kingdom series, it was Mountain King Yotanwa's role.
Masami played Yotanwa very well, though her role and Dialogues were short.
To perform a Savage,Tough and Badass Tribal King(Queen) was a very hard role.
But don't expect her to be in Sequel, because Yotanwa doesn't appear much in manga majority of the time.
If you love Action, then you will enjoy this movie very much.
The only flaw of the Movie was it's simple story and Ending.
See I enjoyed the Movie very much but by the time of climax, they weren't able to build up any tension. It felt like Shin&Co easily managed everything. And pacing was off to around climax.
Overall,
For me Kingdom was one of the Best Manga Adaptation and I enjoyed it very much.
I hope they bring us Sequel very soon.
And forgive me for my poor English as it's my Mothertongue.
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Yes CGI were good for a Korean Movie but other than CGI, every other aspects of it are worst.
Acting was avarage. Direction is horrible and Story is too. Every second of this movie felt like hours.
I don't even remember if there was music in it.
Action scenes were ok.
If you love Dragons and good CGI, then give it a chance. And remember to keep a painkiller besides you.
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I do love Martial Arts movie but there aren't many Korean Martial Arts movie there.
So Arahan was my first Korean Martial Arts film.
It was good and different than Chinese Martial Arts Movies.
Fighting and Action scenes were great and Comedy was good too.
The Bad thing about the film is it's Story, It was above avarage. They could have improved it more.
And the chemistry between Male and Female lead felt off to me.
It's great watch for Martial Arts movie lovers.
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