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I felt in love with Lee Seung Gi after watching "My girlfriend is a Gumiho". That guy's smile is the most beautiful I have ever seen. Then I watched King2hearts because I was curious about how he would do with a more serious drama. I have seen Ha Ji Won in "Secret Garden" so what could go possibly wrong with King2hearts? Two talented and charismatic actors on the screen, an interesting story ... I was hooked. After watching the first episodes I was surprised how great the drama was. Story, acting, characters, everything was good. Lee Seung Gi's performance was one of the best (if not the best) I have ever seen in a korean drama to date. So what went wrong? I don't really know. The politics, Ha Ji Won's character, everything became so silly. The romance didn't work for me, the story become boring and cheesy. Ha Ji Won really overdid it here. I dropped the series somewhere in the middle. It's a shame, but look for yourself. Everyone should give this a try. It seems many liked it to the end.

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This movie is not the best from the super hero taisen movie series, but if you are a fan of TOEI super sentai and kamen rider series, you can enjoy it but it keeps you wishing for more of a better story and action secuences. Acting was great, just like the series, and the return of some riders and sentai heroes was great too. So, if you are a fan of the series and you want to see to your favorite heroes (some of them of course) on a movie fighting, the jokes of Momotaros and the non sense of story about a war between two of the most famous japanese heroe teams against an army and a villian (who nobody knows who he is), watch the movie, but if you don't know anything about the Super Sentai or Kamen Rider world you are maybe not going to enjoy it.

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First this wouldn't be considered as the best but I did like it, at first I only watched it bc of my love for the manhwa and SSK but I was skeptical at first bc there was NJH and Krystal which I've watched their projects where they were leads n did not like it but this drama is decent.
Props to IJH his acting was the best next would be SSK.
This drama took me on an emotional ride felt sad, happy, scared, anxious,etc... all of my emotions were brought out.
Hope that they'll have a season 2 since I want to know more but overall this drama is pretty decent wouldn't say it's the best or worst.

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I'll preface this by saying that I actually enjoyed watching this drama and would probably watch it again in the future. That said, it was also kind of a hot mess. The pacing of the story line was all over the place - both too slow, and too rushed, simultaneously. It seemed as if there were really two entirely separate stories being told here and the result was that neither one got the depth and development that it really deserved and one of them, after a lot of lead up, got dropped like a hot rock right before the final episode. Nam Joo Hyuk plays Habaek, the titular Water God, who is destined to become king of the gods, if only he can complete some pesky quests in the human world first - unfortunately, he arrives without direction, without resources, and without his powers. He meets up with Shin Se Kyung's Yoon So Ah, a psychiatrist who doesn't particularly like hearing about people's problems (seems like an odd choice of career given that), and who is struggling to make ends meet in her private practice. Oh, and who is also the last descendant of a family that was indentured to be the servants of the gods. Their story was pretty run of the mill basic romance line - nothing ground breaking or earth shattering there. The much more interesting story line for me as Im Joo Hwan's CEO Shin Hoo Ye, the half-god with the power of death. His story and character were more tragic and much more interesting. It was a shame that the story line got dropped so hurriedly at the end of the show. His was by far the most sympathetic character. Joo Hyuk's cold disdain as Habaek was off-putting in comparison. I do feel that this drama suffered from some of the lead up advertising pitting it as the next Goblin: The Lonely and Great God. Also, the producers flirted with these exotic fantasy elements, but continually shied away from them again like they were unwilling to commit to being that over the top. There were genuinely funny moments, also some genuinely moving moments, so I'm not sorry that I watched it.

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Bad Guys is a pretty good. If you like this genre, you will probably really enjoy it because it's a notch above most other shows of this type. It's bloody and violent. It might be a little hyped up but at the same time I can understand why people like it.

The GOOD: The best thing about this drama is the 4 main actors. Each actor portrays a different kind of bad guy with an exceptional talent that makes him a valuable asset to a special undercover crime fighting team led by a down and out cop played by Kim Sang Joong. He is great as always. These actors really make you buy into the coolness of their characters. They all have a pretty major dark side, but you just want to see them kick ass. And Bad Guys delivers a lot of slick well choreographed fight scenes where you get to watch them do that over and over and over again. The story moves at a fast pace . Each character's backstory is compelling enough to give the story some heart. I sympathize with these guys and hope they find some redemption.

The BAD: The plot is alright, but there are lots of frustrating scenes where a character behaves in a way that makes me want to just shake him. Several times a character will know a piece of information that would help everyone out but for no explicable reason except to prolong the conflict, they say nothing. There are several things that really don't make much sense, but you just have to go with it because it creates conflict and provides an excuse for another cool fight scene. It's not unbearably bad, but if there were less of those kind of moments in this drama I would rate it higher.

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I think that this drama did it pretty well for me! A lot of people have said that this drama started off strong for them but ended not so well. I kind of disagree with that because I throughly enjoyed it.
Story: 9.0/10
Now you might say that the whole murderer aspect, "who is the murderer" is the same old, same old. That's true but it was actually one of the reasons why I enjoyed it. Though the only thing that left me kind of questioning was, why did he do that? I still had many questions at the end. The romance in this one was good but not the best. It just didn't stand out that much to me but I still found some scenes cute between the main characters. I actually was more attracted to the second lead romance.Also another thing that I really liked watching was the office meetings. They were too funny.
Acting/Cast:10/10
Acting in this one was amazing. I've watched Ji Chang Wook in many other drama's but, I think I fell for him in this one. I couldn't stop staring at him. Nam Ji hyun was good too and her crying scenes felt so real.I'm so glad Choi Tae Joon plays a really gullible character in this because his character in missing 9 was not so pretty, and now I love him to bits. This is my first time seeing Nara and I must say, even though of what happened in the past with her character, she is my favourite in this. And finally the person that plays the villain... I won't say his name in case it's a spoiler but... I love him and hate him at the same time. He plays the villain so perfectly that I hate him but because he played it so perfectly, I loved it? Does that make sense? Idk XD
Music: 7.0/10
The reason why I put it at such an average score was because I haven't listened to the whole soundtrack yet so I'm saying it's not bad. Eye contact by Kim Ez acoustic version is so far my favourite song on the soundtrack. The sound effects during the episodes were also nice to but too bad their not actual songs.
Rewatch value: 5.0/10
I won't be rewatching this because I don't see the reason why and I always say this but I rarely rewatch drama's.
Overall: 8.5/10
I recommend this to you if you're looking for a sweet romantic comedy with a bit of a twist. By the way, the outfits in this drama were so eye-catching to me even though they were simple.

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I had higher expectations for this drama, so I was slightly disappointed that the plot and the acting didn't quite live up to those. HOWEVER, despite this, I was still engaged with this show and enjoyed it even though it was flawed.

My first criticism is for the plot. I want to preface this by saying that I've never read the comic, so I wasn't influenced in any way by the source material. The issue is that the backstory information that would have been so helpful to understanding what was going on was dribbled out like crumbs on the trail in Hansel and Gretel. I wanted to know more, but the writers would have the characters give some cryptic piece of dialogue and then fail to explain well enough that I felt satisfied as a viewer. The answers came "too little, too late" for many people and I felt somewhat like that myself. I was mostly satisfied with the answers we finally received, but not 100%. I also tend to believe that the budget may have been cut early on. The reason I say so is because the "realm of the gods" was only shown briefly, even though it was splendid. And Ha Baek came through to the human's realm without his powers. He was able to use them twice, and they were marvelous special effects, but then they were not used again. I think they made a good choice to cut the special effects rather than lose production value, but I think they made it a little obvious anyway since the show really could have been something special with a bigger budget.

The acting was fine, but not phenomenal. I think Nam Joo Hyuk was not quite the right choice for Ha Baek. He's adorable, sure. And I've enjoyed his other works. But I don't know that he carried the weight of the role as well as a more experienced actor may have. He wasn't a horrible choice, but I just think they could have done better. On the plus side he was VERY cute. :) And Shin Se Kyung got a lot of criticism for her acting, but I don't think she is a bad actress at all. She played her role fine. The chemistry between the two was hit and miss. Sometimes I thought it was there, and other times, not so much. Im Joo Hwan really knocked it out of the park, though, and was one of the lone actors that really stood out in this show. So much so, that a lot of viewers kept watching for him alone. The other actors were fine. Not anything special, but just fine.

Now, the music on the otherhand, was beautiful. I absolutely loved the track, Glass Bridge. Mesmerizing song! I don't know the names of the others, but the music was lovely. The cinematography was beautiful as well.

I can't say I would re-watch this. Maybe after I read the comic, more of the story will fall into place and I'll understand it better, but that's about it. I do think they ended the show much better than I was expecting, even if it was a bit anticlimactic. This show wasn't horrible by any means, and I hate that so many people gave up on it so quickly. But it was a decent watch even though it didn't live up to its potential. I'm not mad I spent the time watching it.

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