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I cannot fathom all the glowing reviews and comments. I dumped this after two episodes because it's full of suck. See my review above if you want to know why it didn't click with me.

This is on KissAsian(.pe) but it doesn't have English subs.

I watched the opening 3 or 4 minutes because it's a fight... expect wire-fu if you go into this, and don't expect anything to be wowed by from the said wire-fu.
Then again, it may feature one of the greatest final showdowns of all time... but I doubt it.

I bought the DVD of this many, many years ago, lent it to someone, forgot who, and I never got it back.
The worst part is that I never saw the film! Maybe I'll track it down online?

Ashes of Time is the only film of his that I liked.

2046 wasn't bad, but it's a direct rip-off, minus all the fight scenes.

Perhaps I used to be this way... now I'm too busy with family, work and other hobbies, and I often spend more time looking for what to watch than actually watching!
If something doesn't catch and hold my attention, I'm on to other things.

I'm glad this entertained you though, since that's the entire point of the entertainment industry.

I remember being disappointed when I watched this... and that's about all I do remember of this!
Your comment is spot on.

I'm VASTLY more offended by people who take offence to others not sharing their opinions, than I am of someone who has a different one to my own, so really, no offence taken at all!

That said, if you agree with it being vapid and cliché, what made you stick around after the pilot?
Just out of curiosity...

I dropped this immediately after just one episode!

It's basically The Equaliser with a crew, only it's nowhere near as good!
The first episode just didn't pull me and, with more content available than I could watch in 10 lifetimes, I'm not about to waste extra hours on something that came across as so cliché and vapid.

I rated it a 4/10 (it's well made but sub-par to series I'd actually go out of my way to watch).

This is honestly god-awful.

Can anybody recommend a decent action/fighting series?

Yeah, I saw Bryce as a main role above and was like, WTF...?

Well, I'll still read the comics before I watch this, since I'm so close to catching up (it's still on-going), but thanks for the heads-up.

Thanks, everyone.

It turns out that I was mixing up the fat kid with another Korean bullying/fighting webtoon that I'd also had bookmarked for years! My apologies.

Also, the WEBTOON IS AMAZING!
Okay, the first 50 or so are (which is probably this series), then it slows down a lot. A lot of readers were posting comments of how they were worried it would go gay (it doesn't), so seeing a girl as having a major role in the series makes me wonder if they quelled the panic early on.

I'm around 100 chapters into the webtoon (it's around 230), so I'm going to finish that first and then see how this TV version compares.

Thanks for the breakdown. I'm reading the webtoon now but I intend on checking out the drama afterwards.

Thanks!

Wasn't he bullied because he was fat? I think he loses weight and learns to fight or something...
Like I wrote: it seemed interesting so it's been on my reading list for a long, long time.

Japan is one of the safest countries in the world but Yakuza films are rife and often hyper-violent, so try not to read too much into it.

That said, I guess there also must be a lot of nerdy webtoon writers who resent not being more popular, so amplified things and then made the weak kids get strong and crush the bullies.
At the end of the day, we all like to see bullies get destroyed - it plain makes a good read.

I've had the webtoon bookmarked forever. Considering how Japanese stuff normally pales in comparison to the original manga, and how Korea loves to put girl-band-looking "pretty boys" in all the lead roles, I'll go for the webtoon instead.

But please, convince me otherwise.

I didn't really like this film but the extra gun shots at the end made me wonder if a certain someone also got killed.
Can anybody answer?

I remember years ago when people were bigging this up, going on about it being shot on an iphone.

I saw the making of and they had big-arse professional f**king lenses, dollies... even a CRANE at one point! I was really p*ssed off because it was hyped up like, "Oh, look at what a real director can do with an iphone," whereas the reality was, "Look at what a professional crew with funds students could only dream of have done with an iphone!"

Sh*t, for the money spent, they may as well have used an Arri!

I disagree. Sucky is sucky, regardless of the format.

I disagree. Sucky is sucky, regardless of the format.