michelleoc

So, it's not rocket science. This is a great show to watch if you just want to turn off your brain for a while and have a chuckle every so often. I would imagine most would rate it higher than I, but I had to fast forward through so much, because the fight scenes were too intense for me, and the bullying as well. And why does everything exciting have to happen at night when it's dark? The filming was so dark in places it was hard to see what was going on. I thought they could have done with a few less characters as well. So many villains!

This drama was adapted from a webtoon, and I thought they did a terrific job on it. The characters were all over-the-top. The good guys hardly ever lost a fight, even when ridiculously outnumbered. Slow motion punches, people flying through the air. Heroes getting only grazed by a bullet when hundreds of rounds have been fired. Our heroes being protected from a plethora of bullets by hiding behind a wooden desk that, in the real world, bullets would pass through like butter.

So Ji Sub never disappoints. He is able to go from intensity, to fear, to despair, which just using his eyes. I found him perfect for this role.
Seo Su Min as his daughter Min Ji was excellent as well.
I especially liked seeing Choi Dae Hoon as a cool guy. He normally plays kind of a doofus, but I thought he was terrific here, practically living in his karate garb.
Yeon Hyung Ho was great too as the ex-marine. I loved how they played up how loud he was.
I was very appreciative of the humor that these guys brought to break up all the fighting.

Since it was from a webtoon, I kind of had to try to skim over some of the glaring improbabilities:
Min Ji was hit with a brick, and with the amount of blood left behind at the scene, she would have been dead. She's lying on the ground for a while, then stuffed in the back of a car, then dragged to a refrigerator container, all with multiple baddies thinking she's dead. All this happens over more than a day. She immediately wakes up once the lock her in the refrigerator, no appearance of having been wounded (other than the blood all over her) and it able to get herself out. With the amount of blood loss, and lack of food and hydration...there's no way...just sayin'.

Did the main baddie daddy die or are they saving him for the sequel that they obviously set us up for? He was stabbed outside the hospital, and they whisked him back in right away. Unless I inadvertently missed it, I would have liked to see a definite end to him. I would have liked to see more consequences for his daughter as well. The apple didn't fall far from the tree with that one!

The agent and his daughter are given new identities, yet their last name remained Kim and they just changed her name from Min Ji to Ji Min? Plus, they were still close to their two friends? Again, a perfect set-up for a sequel, but very implausible.

So, though it wasn't my cup of tea, there is no denying that it was a fun ride.