The end killed me...

Well, I just finished this drama and...

For me the end is not good. I want romantic plots and not action disguise with strange romance. For that I have HEALER or K2 or ...

There are some good moments. The chemistry between the 2 male leads ( don't think I could call it bromance) is good as the friendship.

OST - didn't get my attention

ACTING - was good, specially the male leads

REWATCH it? - no, never

The plot is boring, the romance is not interesting. I was expecting some more from the secondary couple but I don't get why she didn't divorce her husband. That doesn't make sense even if it was for the kid.
Bad bad bad for me... So there's a person that completely give up any happiness to be a spy and marry and have a kid with a man that is bad, treats her awful and blackmailed her with her child and ...
Stupid to me. How can a pragmatic woman do that?

Don't know what to say about that but, as I was reading some reviews, no one seems to care about that.

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The start was awesome and promising.
But, after some episodes, it was all the same. The game of cat and mouse is good until some point.
Don't understand the revenge, the way that all ends...
Like the couple between Ms Oh and the prosecutor.
Why should most of the guilty, the criminals, the people that done wrong things end up harmless?
Lots of loose ends. Only one punished and locked?
ACTING is good, ML was great and so the brothers...

OST one of the song reminds me of one theme from Dune of David Lynch...
Will never REWATCH because I already know the outcome.

Well, the ending was a disappointment to me... The drama is building up until the climax that never happens.

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Poor story

In this pandemic time I crave for romance, even if it's not realistic or the plot has lots of incongruent moments.
Here we have so many annoying things.
ML very sensitive but weak in some ways. Don't understand why he thinks he abandon his friends in this stupid entertainment business.
FL with lots of prejudice and very different from what a reporter should be.
The couple has some chemistry.
The story of the search for his father doesn't had anything to the story, also his mother.
Liked the couple that got married.
FL friends could show up more.

Maybe, because I don't like k-pop or the news and lives of the actors, I didn't like this show much.
I like dramas, the acting and the stories. And love between the characters.

OST has some interesting songs

Will not rewatch this. Better dramas to rewatch for sure...

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I think this only works without seeing season 2.

I like a lot this drama, but only is coherent with season 2...

Therefore, I will not make any comment in this review. Those I will leave them to the review in the second part, because it is the necessary continuation and closing.

I know that the production of this kind of dramas is different, so i can only say that this review only makes sense if i write it after watching the second part. I wished there was a third, but with the second we can rest and smile.

OVERALL - Please watch this series. The acting, the simplicity and the story are worth of your time.

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The theme is interesting, but the drama is not

The Korean society seems more prone to suicide than most of countries. The theme is important, but the drama did not kept me interest in it .
The way the afterlife organisation was constructed was annoying to me. Lots of holes with weird outcomes. The past story of the characters were very superficial, the different teams, etc.

STORY - maybe a message of hope to some people who are in a down part of their life. For them, please keep up! But nothing more...
Most of the suicide stories were very boring for me, but maybe lots of people can see themselves in those struggles.

ACTING - wonderful the lead actress. The other 2 members of her team were ok. And that is it.

MUSIC - do not remember any of the songs or melodies...

REWATCH - never. There isn't a single scene I would like to see again.

OVERALL - a different theme rapped up in a fantasy world of the death. I realised that there are thousands of grim reapers with nationality! Amazing!

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A drunken sword master stole the real plot

I love martial arts movies! I did not like this one. The story is so stupid, with Seol Rang being a complete nonsense. I even prefer simple revenge, or an assassin that flies into the clouds, or killing sprees of hundreds than this.
Moreover, the reviews! When I read some of the reviews I was amazed how someone with a bad written opinion could rate this with 8 or more!!!!!!
I will not give spoilers, so I stop here.

STORY – completely stupid, 3 friends fighting the injustice: Seol Rang, Deok Ki and Poong Chun. Then, Deok Ki betrayed the other 2 and kills the mother and child of Poong Chun and the betrayed Seol Rang kills Poong Chun! Amazing! Then, after this script arrive to this amazing plot!, the story goes in a way where Seol Rang destroys her daughter life (Sul Hee)! In the process, there is a martial art master, an assassin that likes Sul Hee, etc

ACTING – not bad, but with a plot like this, the characters could not do better. I feel bad because they do not deserve a story like this.

MUSIC – bad

REWATCH – only if Seol Rang or her daughter put a sword in my neck!

OVERALL – I did not like it at all. Yes, some scenes pretend to be beautiful. However, with nonsense like this, even flying through the fields was not pleasant to see.

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A beautiful love between 2 souls in all aspects of life. A beautiful portrait of a family too.

First, I want to say that I do not speak Chinese so it was hard for me this drama. It seemed that the dialogues must be amazing and the story richer than what I read. However, I watched this on Youtube and I really had the impression that the translation is not good nor accurate, maybe because of the A.I.

STORY – interesting story, but too much of the revenge part. A beautiful love story, filled with understanding, empathy of 2 persons that share the passion about architecture and design. Nevertheless, revenge kept them apart for too long, because of a event that killed Mang Yan’s father.
Meng Yan is a genius architect that fell in love for Li Tian Zhen, an idealist designer that has a strong personality and is very competent. Both share the same philosophy about interior design and the fact that who is going to live and use the buildings and spaces are people and not prizes or beauty. They connect and love covers all spaces between them, until his past and revenge gets between them.
Since she has nothing to do with it, but being the daughter of his target (the father), Meng Yan does something stupid and they break up.
Tian Zhen’s brother, Lu Yi Ming loves Qiao Ke who was also adopt by Cao Yu (Tian Zhen’s mother). He takes care of her in the most sweet and unselfish way. He also roots for the main couple and helps everyone.
Qiao Ke has some scars and lacks confidence so she is afraid of been left alone by her adopted family. Everybody seems to know that he loves her except Qiao Ke.
Then, there is the father story, her family members and the struggle between love, past, forgiveness…
Being a part of the plot, most of the business companies was lost in translation.
Tian Zhen’s family dynamic is wonderful, even the divorced parents, the adopted brothers, the wonderful and mature mother, etc.
Do not understand the role and behaviour of Ding Yan Ming (rival Architect), and why the writer forget Guo Yuan Yuan (former Tian Zhen’s and Meng Yan’s boss) in some point.
ACTING – I think the acting was very good.

MUSIC – I like it, even if most of the show I watched in silent mode.

REWATCH – maybe one day, at least some of the first episodes if there will be a good translation.

OVERALL – I liked! A bit too long for me, a bit hard to follow because of the translation algorithm. However, the couple is wonderful, especially their connection in all aspects. You can feel the love when they are working together, talking about building design or just about themselves. The characters are mature (even Qiao…) and it is nice to see how they give space to grow, to heal and to support each other. One of the best C Dramas I have seen, I think my lack of Chinese culture can make me feel strange with some parts of these dramas, but I like it anyway.

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Se este é um "Amor lindo demais" não imagino como a humanidade sobreviveu...

Pensei em escrever em inglês para abranger mais leitores, mas teria que pensar mais neste drama e, realmente, o sofrimento do seu visionamento já me é suficiente.

Após ler algumas resenhas, ainda mais surpreendido fico. Então, este amor é lindo demais?

HISTÓRIA
Temos Sol Yi, uma estudante cheia de vida e com um sorriso simpesmente doce, capaz de agregar toda a esperança do mundo, que gosta loucamente e de uma forma linda e inocente de Cha Heon. Este é um aluno com excelentes notas, tão carismático como uma barata (mas não a de Kafka), com uma expressividade e emoções iguais à de um boneco de teste de colisão e que me recorda aquelas atrizes que se enchem de botox e de plásticas, em que sorrir é uma impossibilidade fisionómica.
Supostamente, no final, ele diz que gostava dela há imenso tempo. Na realidade, sempre a teve por perto, ignorando-a, e cuidando dela como um banqueiro cuida das nossas contas bancárias e o Estado dos nossos impostos.
Blábláblá, os anos vão passando, com grandes amigos e com momentos carinhosos e divertidos que me fizeram continuar a ver. No meio disto, procurei a relação entre os dois (pior que "Onde está o Wally?), em que o ser fantástico, mais romântico que uma linha de programação do Holo (de "Holo, meu amor"), continua a aparecer perto dela. Depois vem a universidade e começam a namorar. Aí, o namoro é tão belo como Tonto (o amigo fiel do Mascarilha) e o seu cavalo, ou o Rantanplan e Lucky Lucke (ou mesmo os irmãos Dalton)...
Em que local do mundo poderá essa personagem considerar que a ama quando vota na sua adversária para líder da turma, não lhe dá boleia quando ela perde a bicicleta, não oferece ajuda nos estudos (só em último caso, e no fim de todos aqueles anos), mas ajuda outras pessoas, etc. Nem quero imaginar o que faria se não a amasse...
Depois de a ignorar durante a universidade, evitando vê-la, perguntando porque apareceu sem avisar, etc. (parece crer que é o único estudante do mundo ocupado), resolve ir para os Estados Unidos (ou seria na Coreia do Norte, onde não poderia entrar em contacto? Que saudades Park Hoon!, "Doutor Estranho"). Aí, nos Estados Unidos, recorde-se!, sem manter qualquer contacto com o seu, suposto, grande amor, nem com os amigos por sinal, permanece durante 3 anos, para depois regressar à Coreia.
Na Coreia, continua o grande amor que nos informará, a posteriori, que sente (ainda bem que o faz pois não tinha notado), mas esquece-se de contactar com ela. Mais uma vez, uma síndrome, como no Drama W, deve ter surgido e, quiçá, estivessem em universos paralelos (deve ter sido um paralelo de estrada que atingiu fortemente o sistema límbico no cérebro de Cha, que controla as suas emoções) e por isso deverá ser difícil na Coreia ter rede.
Passado um certo tempo, reencontra-a de uma forma fortuita ("obrigado pai por adoeceres!", terá Sol Yi pensado) e... viveram felizes para sempre. Um pedido de casamento (já vi mais emoção em pessoas famintas a pedir comida na fila de um qualquer estabelecimento de "fastfood"...), e uma reação dela a dizer que sim.
Este drama transcende-me, quer na forma como os relacionamentos coreanos parecem ser (viva a relação, apesar de um pouco possessiva, entre Jin Hwan e Ha Young), quer na maneira como os beijos parecem ser tão entusiasmantes como lamber um pedaço de lixa ou beber um shot de lexívia. Se os Coreanos e Coreanas beijassem qualquer latino(a), sul-americano(a) ficariam imediatamente apaixonados...
Mas voltando à história.... parece-me que o pedido de casamento, mais uma vez tão belo como um derramamento de petróleo, teve lugar sem que o casal maravilha tivesse passado de um beijo... Imagino que por volta dos 30 anos cortem as unhas do outro e aos 40 anos tomem duche ao mesmo tempo. Espero que consigam fazer amor antes que ele tenha problemas de ereção e que ela entre na menopausa...
Que saudades do relacionamento amoroso entre King Kong e Ann Darrow.

ATUAÇÃO - a atuação foi decente, adorei a So Joo Yeon, o seu sorriso torna qualquer dia soalheiro. A exceção é o Chucky, o boneco diabólico (desculpa-me Chucky!) do ator (ahahahahah!, ator...) Kim Yo Han.

MUSICAL - nada de extraordinário...

VOLTAR A VER - só se fosse como Yorick Brown, da novela gráfica "Y - O último homem", e tivesse que, a bem da sobrevivência da espécie rever esta série.

NO GERAL - pela sinopse, parecia algo interessante, com um amor belo que, para mim, foi unilateral e tortuoso. Se este é o conceito de amor vigente, aí sim eu entendo porque os casamentos e a taxa de natalidade estão a decrescer vertiginosamente...

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The brain is a wonderful place to drill...

Should have been shorter...

STORY - a so and so story about a man with a damage part of the brain that prevents him to feel empathy towards others. A very skilled neurosurgeon, who is magnificent in the diagnose of the patients "the body nevers lie".
The plot is not very deep, some issues remains open and the main focus goes from a mistery about medical research or even the past of the ML to a love or something like that relationship.
I do not mind the end, i like happy endings. But it makes no sense some of the events...

ACTING - the acting was good. The ML is very good with a very interesting part. The FL is a little dumb, specially in the begining. The villains are not very interesting and the secondary parts are also not very engaging to me.

MUSIC - i really do not remember the OST.

REWATCH - maybe... maybe one or two scenes, but i think there are better hospital dramas.

OVERALL - i had fun to watch, specially the ML acting.

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Feeling good...

A little longer than it should, but i liked it.

STORY – a typical story where people are wrongfully traded, and happiness appears.
It is a simple story, better, two stories entwined and other 2 or 3 stories going along, all about love.
The villains are non-existent or just bad and uninteresting.
ACTING – good acting for the leading actors and main characters. Did not like the lack of violence toward the killers, treating the ruffians nicely while they try to kill them. Lots of poison involved, a plot with one or two interesting twisted and too many coincidences for my personal taste.

MUSIC – I am not a fan of this kind of music, so it was not important for me.

REWATCH – some scenes I could gladly rewatch. The whole drama I do not think so, but it is not a bad thought to do it.

OVERALL – I was pleased to watch this drama. It is light (too much in some senses), almost seems to me that this is a show for youngsters viewers also, due to the jolly fighting scenes.

Overall, it was a YES for me.

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A japanese "Clockwork Orange"?

The movie is a little weird and i love out-of-the-box movies. The gang of the pantie’s "ninjas", the cult of the zero church (zero must symbolizes the number of synapses of the members), even the question of faith and lust, misandry, and so on…
The almost 4 hours does not matter, the story can carry on with different layers…

STORY – lots of intertwined stories in one.
ACTING – I think it was the best of the movie. Wonderful!
MUSIC – not bad but will not remain in my mind except one or two.
REWATCH – some of the crazy and funny scenes yes!
OVERALL - I do not know what to expect because humans can be worse than people think, and reality is more creative than fiction. So maybe the characters could behave like they did. But that is not as important to the movie. The ending is ok, especially the last scene.
But, reading the reviews and watching the movie after… I was trying to discover the masterpiece that was mentioned and all the accolades that were written. I could not find any…
Do not know if a comparison is due, but Clockwork Orange is much much better in addressing some of the themes of this movie and the atmosphere.
Funny, interesting but noooooooooooo, not a masterpiece nor a 10 star!!!
I do not mind when someone gives 10 stars to a show, but do not use technical terms of words like masterpiece. It is not true, mainly in Japanese filmography that is amazing!

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A B, better, C movie...

I love Martial arts and Samurai movies, mangas and anime!
I wanted so much to like this one…

STORY – the story is very good. Power struggle between 2 factions. The notion of honour and personal sacrifice for a better collective outcome.
Azumi is one of 10 amazing assassins trained in a remote mountain for a mission of preventing a war. She is gorgeous, the best of them and was chosen to accomplish the mission of killing 3 war lords. And there it goes…
ACTING – some of the actors were skilled and agile. Azumi was not the best of them, I think this movie lacked good choreography and it lacked good athletes and performers in the fight scenes…

MUSIC – I really did not pay attention, so I think it was not so special to me.

REWATCH – I do not think I will. Mostly because the fight scenes were not good enough and the plot was not so dense.

OVERALL – I am European, so I thought the Arnold movie Commando was the one where more people were killed. I think this surpasses that one, with not so good choreography or acting. There are some interesting characters and that’s it.
In 2003 there are excellent technology and choreographers. Maybe they were on vacation...

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Hummmm…
I have a strange taste in my mouth… I want to adore this movie, but the end was long and mellow… so I just liked it…

STORY – not much of a plot. Yeo Kyung Jin is a force of nature that, because of the past, lives her sister’s life… Myung Woo meets her in a bizarre situation. He wants to see the real girl and he falls in love for the real person and not the cop. Lots of funny scenes, stupid decisions, and a feel-good chemistry.

ACTING – wonderful acting of both leading roles. The others almost do not exist.

MUSIC – beautiful and “painted” most of the scenes very well.

REWATCH – do not think so. I cannot separate the movie from that ending. Maybe one or 2 scenes.

OVERALL – I get that some people feel similarities to the movie my sassy girl. I prefer that ending much more. It is better in every way. But I think the middle of the movie and the chemistry is better in this one. Wish it was perfect to me as it was to so many!

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Good quality movies remains forever...

Just finished the movie. I think i am writing this more as a memento to myself than for reviewing it.
THE STORY: interesting how it went. A girl that lost her boyfriend, a man that lacks purpose in life, as it is normal in that age. And then… chaos… a chaotic relationship, strange sado-maso funny moments… Two person linked so nice, great chemistry and a relationship that only both can comprehend.
A burden carried by her in her heart… how to forget a lost lover
?… a burden carried by him… how to make her forget him and make her happy?
To unite they must break… opposite feelings and behaviour and…
Maybe a tree will always wait for us…

ACTING: very good, completely centered in these two, Gyun Woo and the Sassy Girl.

MUSIC: how can anyone not love Canon in D composed by Pachelbel?!?!?

REWATCH: definitely! Especially the last 15 minutes, where such different moments and feelings come into place?
OVERALL: a bizarre feel-good story! But I love having this beautiful feeling of happiness after watching something that can stick to me as a little part of myself. Even better when rapped in a different story!
The end is almost perfect!

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I was completely misguided by the wonderful reviews...

After seeing this miniseries and after the comments and reviews, I was confused.
STORY – it's so uninteresting I don't even know if I get it right. Short version: an innocent, unintelligent girl is manipulated into being a murderer. And she kills a lot of people, including some bad ones (innocent people will be the fruit of youth and for that we can forgive her)...
Cha Yeon Jin is born with the purpose of providing stem cells to the Criminal Kwon Do Hwan, supposedly his progenitor. Meanwhile, the leader of the boss's assassin group, Yoo Seong Ho, runs away with the surrogate mother along with her daughter.
Later, due to activities related to the bad guy's scientific research (which are reminiscent of a lot of science fiction movies), the mother Jang In Sook is kidnapped. The great protector Seong Ho and Yeon Jin kill one of the criminals. While Yeon Jin finds her mother who is murdered by poor copies of Alex DeLarge, from the movie A Clockwork Orange, the protector must have had an attack of sciatica and only appears at the end to see Yeon Jin “killed” by his former recruit, Min Jin. Then, without understanding why, the protector leaves the scene (perhaps to smoke a cigarette or snort oxygen) and Yeon Jin decides to accompany a woman she has never seen and become a murderer, with the promise of avenging her mother.
But, of course, a murderess must be literate and that's why she goes to school. At school, there's a boy who has the misfortune of falling in love with her. Great mysteries happen, such as knowing if she is good at Mathematics and if there is a waiver from Physical Education.
Ah, in the middle of all this there is the incompetent Choi Tae Yeong, a detective who appears at the beginning, doing nothing, in the middle (perhaps to attend some classes at school) and at the end, doing very little.
A lot of people are killed, which is good for reducing personnel costs, between well-choreographed scenes. In one of the scenes we realized that Min Jin must have myopia, because she hits everything that moves at long distances, but up close she is a disgrace.
In the end, the killer ends up going out with her friends and… the end is so scary that it seems to open up possibilities for a second series”!!!!!!

ACTING – there are good acting. The role of Killer K is well done, within the character's shallow depth.

MUSIC – I don't remember any.

REWATCH – no! There are countless better movies and series on revenge, crimes and murders and all the miscellaneous themes we want to encompass. For action scenes it is ok.
OVERALL – there are some interesting scenes and could be very interesting. It could be condensed into a 90' film, explore the parts of the story that seem interesting and forget about the rest.
Again, I don't understand the justifications for such high ratings. Perhaps having read them I expected something with much more quality…



Após ver esta minissérie e depois dos comentários e resenhas, fiquei confuso.
HISTÓRIA – é tão desinteressante que nem sei se percebi. Versão curta: uma menina inocente e pouco inteligente é manipulada e torna-se uma assassina. E mata muita gente, entre os quais algumas más pessoas (as pessoas inocentes serão fruto da juventude e por isso podemos perdoar à menina). Cha Yeon Jin nasce com o propósito de fornecer células estaminais ao Criminoso Kwon Do Hwan, supostamente o seu progenitor. Entretanto, o líder do grupo de assassinos do chefe, Yoo Seong Ho, foge com a mãe de aluguer juntamente com a filha.
Mais tarde, devido a atividades relacionadas com as pesquisas científicas do mauzão (que lembram imensos filmes de ficção científica), a mãe Jang In Sook é raptada. O grande protetor Seong Ho e Yeon Jin matam um dos criminosos. Enquanto Yeon Jin encontra a mãe que é assassinada por umas cópias rascas de Alex DeLarge, do filme a Laranja Mecânica, o protetor deve ter tido um ataque de ciática e só aparece no fim para ver a Yeon Jin “morta” pela sua ex recruta, Min Jin. Depois, sem que se entenda o porquê, o protetor sai de cena (talvez para fumar um cigarro ou snifar oxigénio) e Yeon Jin decide acompanhar uma mulher que nunca viu e tornar-se uma assassina, com a promessa de vingar a mãe.
Mas, claro, uma assassina deve ser literata e por isso vai à escola. Na escola aparece um rapaz que tem a infelicidade de se apaixonar por ela. Grandes mistérios acontecem, como por exemplo saber se é boa a Matemática e se tem dispensa da prática de Educação Física.
Ah, no meio disto tudo existe o incompetente Choi Tae Yeong, um detetive que aparece no início, não fazendo nada, no meio (talvez para assistir a umas aulas na escola) e no fim, fazendo muito pouco.
Mata-se muita gente, o que é bom para reduzir custos de pessoal, entre cenas bem coreografadas. Numa das cenas percebemos que Min Jin deve ter miopia, pois acerta em tudo o que mexe a longas distâncias, mas de perto é uma desgraça.
No fim, a assassina termina a sair com as amigas e… o fim é tão assustador que parece abrir hipóteses de uma segunda série”!!!!!!

ACTING – há bons atores e atrizes. O papel da Killer K é bem feito, dentro da pouca profundidade da personagem.

MÚSICA – não me recordo de nenhuma.

REWATCH – não! Há incontáveis filmes e séries melhores em vingança, crimes e assassinos e toda a miscelânea de temas que queiramos englobar. Para cenas de ação há melhores.

OVERALL – tem umas cenas interessantes e poderia ser muito interessante. Poder-se-ia condensar num filme de 90’, explorar as partes da história que parecem interessantes e esquecer as demais.
Mais uma vez, não compreendo as justificações para classificações tão altas. Talvez por as ter lido esperasse algo com muita mais qualidade…

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