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Key to the Phoenix Heart chinese drama review
Dropped 6/28
Key to the Phoenix Heart
9 people found this review helpful
by Shin
7 days ago
6 of 28 episodes seen
Dropped 1
Overall 3.5
Story 3.0
Acting/Cast 4.0
Music 6.0
Rewatch Value 1.0

Not the type of drama I can force myself to watch

Two reasons that spoilt the fun for me :

1. The visual age gap i felt , not because I already know about their age difference but their visual incompatiblity is hitting so hard that it is almost impossible to ignore. I was pretty much convinced I don't care about her age but honestly them playing couple is not giving the right chemistry vibes cause they aren't looking like couple visually. Period.

2. The sub-standard storyline: I love HMH but this is what it is ... The plot was not appealing to me or you can say cause I always have higher expectations from HMH's projects. I am not sharing any spoilers cause I don't want to cloud anyone's judgement.

It feels like betrayal..almost ... Like you waited for your favourite actor's drama for months and then you are served something you can't even watch beyond the first quarter. So not fair.

And people might come to fight me for saying this but honestly Ai Mi doesn't have what it takes to be Female lead .. at least not now ...she's cute and bubbly but that immaturity and childishness in her appearance is quite obvious. I don't say that for every actress for example the one who played female lead in the princess royal also started very young but her face cut is very mature type she looked like the character she played, that's not the case with Ai Mi.

HMH was okayish ... Can't help when you don't like the story liking an actor and his character in the drama becomes hard. On a scale of 1-10 if rate him in LITC and BFTB a perfect 10 here he was a mere 6 or maybe less.

Music is the only thing about this drama that satisfied my expectations.
Styling is also fine like whatever you expect of a period-ish plot.

And with that said.. it's strictly my opinion ... I don't care sh*t about age gap unless it doesn't look so obvious on screen, some reviews pointing to that are just hate rants instead of rational conclusions similarly the ones giving it a perfect 10/10 can't be trusted either. Even after pushing all my criticism aside I don't understand why would anyone rate it a perfect ten ... It's totally not worth it.
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