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City Hunter korean drama review
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City Hunter
17 people found this review helpful
by MizushimaScary
Jun 26, 2013
20 of 20 episodes seen
Completed 1
Overall 4.0
Story 3.0
Acting/Cast 3.0
Music 6.0
Rewatch Value 1.0
*DISCLAIMER: I do not fangirl over pretty protagonists. I'm pretty sure the Korean pronunciation would perfectly illustrate how I feel about this drama. To start! The story: It's a pretty basic story of revenge,"romance" and a game of cat and mouse that... really ends all unsatisfying like - seriously, it hardly felt like anyone was chasing anyone. The pacing is pretty poor, and most episodes are heavily padded. Your general episode would go like this: 10% plot 10% glaring 80% needless drama between the two leads. Really, they went hot and cold so often that it gave me the chills. The needlessly forced drama between them (as well as the forced relationship) was kind of bearable to start, but the writers decided to repeat it over and over. Actors! To be fair, I enjoyed the performance of a few characters, but people like Nana's agent pal were so. very. wooden. The way it was directed was all too saddening, as well. The characters were blatantly out in the open, as inconspicuous as a white van outside a villain's house and had the disguising skills of a pigeon. Why bring up disguises, do you ask? Lee Yoon Sung's go to disguise was either a pair of glasses, a hat, or even a pair of glasses and his hair paired to a different side! I personally thought LYS was utterly unlikeable. He had very few decent qualities, and was rather an unpleasant person to many. I guess his most appealing quality was his looks, right? A lovely guy that doesn't want to kill but will take every opportunity to mess with Nana. "Don't come near me!" "But... you keep coming to me... like all the time..." "I TOLD YOU, DON'T COME NEAR ME!" "O...kay?" "MAKE ME COFFEE! :@" Another point that I disliked was the thorough destruction of Nana's character. To start she was feisty, independent and quite a nice opposite to LYS's typical bad-boy-that-treats-women-like-trash-until-they-like-them-a-whole-lot attitude. Then... then she just became a puppy eye'd female that never seems to back up what she says when she threatens LYS with leaving. I guess we needed that for the forced romance, right? Music! It was catchy, fitted the mood more often than not. It was the highest rated aspect, for me. Overall: A poor man's cat and mouse game with needless drama, poor pacing and a glaring dad that appears every time someone is going to say something that would put him at a disadvantage. I take it back - the glare was the highest rated thing for me.
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