This is pretty bad. Production values suck, acting is amateurish (nothing worse than bad fake drunks) and the direction is poor. Our at 20 minutes. Enjoy!
Dropping about halfway through. Just kind of bored with it. I already know the Internet is crawling with assholes and that Korea is one of the most cyber-psycho countries on the planet. Entertainers there are regularly bullied and abused to the point of suicide. Watching these twits "find the killer" of a young woman they helped harrass is just dull. People this obsesssed with social media live their lives online rather than engaging with reality. This is not news so I'm just kind of over it.
As sweet as mint candy and as deep as a teaspoon of water, but I enjoyed it just the same. I kept thinking "this is a gay Korean Hallmark Channel movie." Two leads had great chemisty, but didn't really buy Choo Young Woo as a seasoned dancer, despite his beautiful physique. His moves just weren't there. It was weird how they had his character training for this important audition with no instructor or coach. Choo Young Woo reminds me a great deal of the late Kim Jonghyun of the K-Pop band SHINee. He has similar eyes, mouth, jaw, smile. I love Jonghyun and kept thinking of him throughout the movie. CYW's acting was spot-on. A nice watch. Keeping my expectations appropriate for a Hallmark piece, I rated this 8/10 because why not?
The way the "stewardess" treated him on the subway platform at the end, wiping his drool with a condescending, tsk tsk vibe, was really strange. Like she thought it was cute that he was practically a vegetable.
So Kyu Nam is a super hero but doesn't know it? And why and how did he become one? And if so, why was he ever in a wheelchair and why and how did he regenerate at just the proper moment to save the little girl? Meh. Weak. But it's great that you're so much more intelligent than the rest of the audience...maybe you're the ONE person this movie was made for.
Got kind of bored a few times, which is not good for this kind of movie. Dude above says we were hinted early on what powers Kyu Nam has. OK, so what are they? Is he a super hero already. Does he mutate to one? Seems all over the map to me. Some cool effects and off-beat humor at times, but the story was meandering and there were a few too many last-second saves, which always annoy me. 6/10
@FrothyMix I mean.... just watch the news? unfortunately
I thought about blocking you, but I have the smart-ass gene in spades myself and you seem intelligent, so I'll let it slide. :) I'll agree to disagree with you on this one: Covid and the Hairworm are a little more than "a bit outside the exact details" in differences...to me. Your mileage seems to differ and that is fine.
@FrothyMix I mean.... just watch the news? unfortunately
Seems you're mostly interested in being a smart-ass, but I will try one more time: there is ZERO similarity between Covid 19 and a "hairworm" that makes people want to drink massive amounts of water, throw themselves into rivers, lakes and oceans where they become instant skeletal cadavers and die.
But if you see valid comparisons, hey, knock yourself out.
So sure, just go ahead and put my heart through a blender while you're at it... I ugly-cried the entire second half of the movie, unsurprisingly. Both leads were outstanding, not a false note between them, and the coach was excellent too. Do Kyung Soo has young Elvis Presley lips and dimples. It seems every time I see the most handsome man possible, and he's always Asian, someone like Do Kyung Soo comes along... Jo Jung Suk...SO freaking funny. That first time he tried to kick his bro in the kitchen and nearly put his hip out was beyond hysterically funny, among a hundred other moments like that.
I kept thinking "this is a gay Korean Hallmark Channel movie."
Two leads had great chemisty, but didn't really buy Choo Young Woo as a seasoned dancer, despite his beautiful physique. His moves just weren't there.
It was weird how they had his character training for this important audition with no instructor or coach.
Choo Young Woo reminds me a great deal of the late Kim Jonghyun of the K-Pop band SHINee. He has similar eyes, mouth, jaw, smile. I love Jonghyun and kept thinking of him throughout the movie. CYW's acting was spot-on. A nice watch.
Keeping my expectations appropriate for a Hallmark piece, I rated this 8/10 because why not?
Dude above says we were hinted early on what powers Kyu Nam has. OK, so what are they? Is he a super hero already. Does he mutate to one? Seems all over the map to me.
Some cool effects and off-beat humor at times, but the story was meandering and there were a few too many last-second saves, which always annoy me.
6/10
Best movie touching on homelessness I have ever seen. Acting/direction all-round is astounding.
Bravo!
9/10
It's a tragedy that no one on MDL is watching films like this while BL garbage (I love BL good stuff) racks up hundreds of thousands of views. Sick.
But if you see valid comparisons, hey, knock yourself out.
I ugly-cried the entire second half of the movie, unsurprisingly.
Both leads were outstanding, not a false note between them, and the coach was excellent too.
Do Kyung Soo has young Elvis Presley lips and dimples. It seems every time I see the most handsome man possible, and he's always Asian, someone like Do Kyung Soo comes along...
Jo Jung Suk...SO freaking funny. That first time he tried to kick his bro in the kitchen and nearly put his hip out was beyond hysterically funny, among a hundred other moments like that.
What a beautifully melancholy film. 9/10