Rato (2021)

One of the best dramas I've seen.

I don't want to write a too long review, or spoil much so... If you like crime, mystery and psychological thriller with insanely good and well written plot twists... This is the drama for you.

Some say this drama dragged on for too long or was too confusing, but I disagree. Yes, it might have seemed slightly dragged on at some points, and there were various plot twists that might have confused some but I feel like it was all worth it because everything made sense in the end. This drama was absolutely incredible, and something I've been wanting to see for a while now.

But what really amazed me was Lee Seunggi. I always knew he was a good actor but wow... he exceeded my expectations. This drama would not be the same without him. If you can't find any other reason to watch this drama, watch it for him.

Leia Mais

Too many psychos not enough fresh ideas

Everyones been praising this drama to be one of the best kdrama thriller/suspense and as for someone like me who have watched almost every kdrama out there, it only takes one episode to determine whether or not a drama is worth watching and boy this one is surely drop-worthy.

Idk why I dragged myself upto ep 14 for something predictable and a been-there-done-that plot.

At this point, screenwriters almost needs to add or mix up another genre to the police/psycho/suspense/thriller to make it interesting (ex: tunnel, duel, life on mars).

And dont get me started on the editing.

Leia Mais

Mouse what can i say!!!

Masterpiece. From a long time i haven't watched,, not from a long time i actually haven't watched this much of intense thriller and suspense kdrama with hard but reality-based ending . What a character transformation of lee seung gi after watching that we cay say that he shows the peck level of acting skills, you will goosebumps by seeing him acting it's really best performance by lee seung gi in MOUSE. Many folders are also not been opened .......Mouse also has a little bit of loose point but to compare to acting Lee seung gi blow all our mind towards him, what a brilliant acting, its really really intense to see him in a such character. I'm actually a big fan of lee seung since vagabond,after giving brilliant performance in vagabond the expectation is very high which is fully fulfilled by seung gi
This drama has everything , it has romance action thriller, suspense, character growing healing everything
If you are a thrilled suspense lover this drama is perfect for you and the seung gi fans out there who whants to see seung gi in a intense villainic character mouse is for you.

At last i want to say that I'm very satisfied with the drama and special mention to the screenwriter and director did a great job by focusing what they want to saw us.
I'm giving highly recommended mouse for those who loves intense suspense drama with high intelligence.
Thank U

Leia Mais

The writer of this drama has the 1% genius gene.

One of the best drama of this genre i highly recommend this drama. Every thing is perfect literally the story, the amazing plot twists no matter of how you think the story will go trust me its beyond what you’ve imagined. Their acting are spectacular the way how lee seung gi (jung barum) aced his role and how he and ko mochi delivered their emotions I literally stood and clapped for their acting and their performance. I recommend to read the comments after each episode and read the watchers theories that what made this drama so special and unforgettable.

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I loved how this drama ended although it was sad and i cried alot but i knew there was no other ending that will end this perfect drama other than this they always make us sympathize with psychopaths its a k drama thing ⋆ᶿ̵᷄ ˒̼ ᶿ̵᷅⋆ and what i liked about this drama; they put the viewers in dilemma just to know who is the psycho i knew jung ba reum is the psycho from day one, also i had love and hate relationship with eobongi i love her acting but her role annoyed me sometimes also the other female actor the pd she had the worst role although I sympathize with her and i knew why she was like that but i despite the fact she left her family for 26 years while she knew they are searching for her. Other than those two roles i loved everything. I loved their bromance although it didn’t last long but when they work together to solve the case was the best teamwork. i loved the theories people made and how the writer made plot twists that wasn’t close to most of the theories. One thing that made me sad but at the end I understand why the writer did that; in the middle of the drama literally they where solving cases unrelated to the main point of the drama which is finding the psychopath and i was sad because i need progress to the story but there was hidden reason of why they took a long route just to understand and find the psychopath and i loved the plot twist behind it. They delivered a massage “the society makes us toxic not ourselves” This drama literally a must watch.

Leia Mais

Stupidly Overcomplicated! Disappointing!

This Drama started off with a BANG!
I really liked the first episode, but then what did we get halfway into the Drama?
Just overcomplicated and uneccesary plot points. Filled with too many characters and
many cat and mouse chasing moments!

They just made twists to create confusion.
The story does have plot holes also.
And I did not like the sci-fi elements of the Brain Transplant!
They could have scratched that, and just made JBR lose his memory.
Because in the end, he still was a monster!

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What were the writers thinking? They made JBR kill his own Father?
((On episode 20, JBR was almost going to kill Choi young Shin..
And then he tells her, that he is no longer capable of killing someone!
But what happend in the end? He murdered his own Father!
That completely ruined everything for me! As he was redeeming his actions before.
Only to turn a complete 180 anyway? What did I just watch?

Even though the father is a monster, that is not justifiable.
And was not necessary at all, that actually ruined JBR turning more humane after the surgery.
So only to stay a monster even till the end?

The acting was good by Lee Seung Gi. And so was Lee Hee Joon.
And there were stupid characters in this drama.
The music was alright for a crime drama.

I would never rewatch this drama! After going through that bothersome second half of the drama.
Yet this Drama is not a complete waste of time. I liked the first 8 episodes. After that I started fast forwarding!
As the Drama went downhill. Becoming a disappointment.

If this is what happens, they could have made this straightforward .
I guess the saying "Keeping it simple and focusing on what matters."
Describes this entire Drama!
I will be dubious of Crime K-Dramas going foward now!

Leia Mais

Nothing's what it looks like.

It was fantastic and thrilling. At least the first half.
The story was good. It looks too obvious at first, you think you already know everything and may think it's boring, 'cause why watch it, when they tell us everything, but no, the things here are not that simple. You have to watch it, because nothing is what it looks like. Because of the twists and turns, it kept me in the screen all day, not to mention the OST (my favourite was that one with the organ), and the acting (especially Lee Seung Gi's, he was just fantastic).

But as we went on the story, and as we went nearer and nearer to the end, it became a little draggy. Things became more clean, the story became more predictable, the plot wasn't that dark and thrilling like before, the twists weren't surprising anymore. I suspected a way darker ending and deeper things behind all the happenings, and the last episode was just like they were in a hurry, and felt like they 'had' to answer all the questions in only ONE episode. In the last episode, things just happened one after another, like it wasn't whole, like they torn it apart to little peaces to answer all our questions and solve all the leftover problems, which they could've done better if they did it little by little maybe in the last 2-3 episodes.

And the ending - after I watched it, I just felt I really, really want to cry. It was unfair. I wanted something else. The person (I don't want to spoil) who recived the punishment, wasn't the same person anymore who DESERVED that punishment (if you watched the drama, you know what I mean), and it just felt so, so unfair, even if I know it was the proper thing to do.

After all, I gave this a 9, because I'm in deep love with the first half. It compensated me for everything they've done in the end. I've put this in my "TOP" favourites list, and it's possible that I will watch it again some time later.

Leia Mais

Fairy tales are just a fantasy..

After so long, I found this underrated masterpiece. The casts did a great job portraying their characters. The writer gave us a thrilling experience throughout the whole drama. And left us a message. A message to create a better world. A message to let the world be a better place for us, humans.

Religion helps you to develop your characteristics, your morality. But why God made some of us like that? Enjoying to see humans being in pain, being in fear, being threatened to get killed? It's their fault. Their genes are like this. But circumstance also matters. If he could get love from his family he could've been a better human. But in society they're no better than monsters, an object for experiments, an object they can easily get rid of by just a simple voting. Humans can even kill them before they can see the light of the world. Actually humans are the real monsters.

Anyone with psycho genes can commit murder. But from Ba reum's character development, the writer gave us a hint that if he was loved by his mother for the way he was, he could have been different. But that's not the case. His family got killed. He didn't want to be a monster. He wanted to believe that Sung Yohan's brain was fabricating his memories. But they're actually his memories. He envied people for not committing sins. His ideology was that People who do not commit sins are sinners. It was actually because of his overall resentment toward GOD, As God made him a monster and slowly he was becoming that.
In food chain, animals who are at top slaughters those in bottom.
From childhood, we are used to hearing stories with moral teachings. What if we turn those stories in real life? But in a darker theme? with a murder concept? Those who've chose to follow God's teaching, who do not have those seven sins are sinners and are bound to get punished?

Being evil is not what you chose, the society made you chose that. You're a criminal's son, a evil person's son so you're also evil. That's the perspective of us.

Leia Mais

Good! but not "Great"

So after hearing that this drama would be comparable to "Strangers from Hell" I kinda went in with high expectations. I wanted it to be just as thrilling and moving and In a way I did get what I wanted but It just wasn't as striking.

I want to give the highest praise for the acting and production. Lee Seung Gi and P.O. in particular had me almost crying near the end. The editing, direction, and music were all great to experience.

I personally feel that the biggest disappointments of the show come from it's writing. There are multiple instances where I feel like the drama does not even attempt to respect the intelligence of its audience. There are so many fake outs and deliberate misdirections that aim to increase the longevity and the intensity of the show but end up working against it instead. When you do take the time to notice things and take note of certain clues and facts that you've been given, the drama never takes the time to vindicate a viewer's theory at any point in time until the end.

I think of Dr. Daniel in the amusement park and just Yohan in general. It was painfully obvious that he wasn't the Killer but the drama kept insisting on that which just made it more unsurprising when the real killer is revealed.

I feel like the highest priority of the show at any point in time was to cause as much discussion and controversy and surprise as possible. There is a philosophical side to its story and I think that it tries to make a statement but at the same time it kind of fails towards the end.

I still enjoyed it and would recommend it!

Leia Mais

The most affecting drama I have ever seen

I watch a lot of murder mystery dramas; I even listen to tons of true crime podcasts, so you know I'm able to stomach the content and find intrigue in the genre.

However, this drama was no average "whodunnit." This was a rollercoaster ride, from start to finish, and even though I was unfortunately spoiled before I started watching it, I was still surprised and intrigued at how the story unfolded.

This was a deeply human story. It really makes you question what right and wrong are. The basic question that started the first episode, aka "Can you predict a murderer before he's born?", isn't that interesting to me. The more interesting ones are: "Can a murderer change?" "Can you feel sympathy for a murderer?" "Can a murderer redeem himself?". These are the questions I was asking myself as we got to the second half of the drama.

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I think we got a really unique main character in Jung Bareum - at first, I loved how kind and bumbling he was. Then, to see him wake up with memory loss and become scared out of his mind that he may become a murder was truly heart-wrenching to watch. Then, to see him remember his true memories and realize what kind of person he was - that was an honest punch to the gut. It was so, so incredibly difficult to watch this transformation, and in less capable hands, he would have been more of a caricature than a truly captivating character. Lee Seung Gi completely outdid himself here. I have never been more compelled by an actor (the only other time was Ji Sung in Kill Me, Heal Me, another drama where the main character has conflicting personalities). I could not get myself to hate Bareum, even after the flashback scenes where you see how he had disdain for everyone and killed all those people in the coldest of cold blood. LSG does that good of a job at making you sympathize with his character. He was robbed of a Daesang for sure.

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TLDR: If you're wondering if you should watch this drama, you should watch it if you like good storytelling, and even better acting. However, this is not a smooth ride. If you're looking for something to just pass the time, this is not the drama. If you're interested in thinking deeply and feeling deeply, then I would 100000% watch this drama.

A modern masterpiece.

Leia Mais

Is the TRUTH REALLY THE TRUTH or is it just built upon LIES? Truly, a Game of Twists and Deception

P.S. I'll first give a warning because this drama has themes of violence, abuse etc. that are not suitable for viewers who are sensitive with these tags... Furthermore, the plot gets darker as the story reaches its climax so if you're uncomfortable with this, then you can sit this one out.. I'll also try my best to give a review that will not contain any spoilers.. lol

To be honest, I cannot understand what I felt after finishing this drama, the emotions I felt at that time were conflicting... However, as I thought about the events that transpired from the beginning until the end, everything ended the way it's supposed to end... Some may find it bittersweet while others may find it miserable but it all depends on the viewers perspective... One thing I can say though is that punishment was served fittingly..

Hands down, Mouse relayed its story well with its deception and emotionally thrilling situations that surely captivated its viewers... A drama befitting to be the Best Crime / Psychological / Thriller Drama of the year.. **applause**

With its gripping start as it revolves around psychopaths : Who killed who?? Who is the real killer?? What are the causes of their psychopathic tendencies?? etc. - One would argue if the Truth is really the Truth or just simply built upon Lies.. As the story moves further, everything slowly unravels to the point where what everyone might see in the beginning might not be true in the end..

The main cast did a really great job in portraying their characters actions and emotions most especially Lee Seung Gi and Lee Hee Jon.. From start until the end, they bombarded us with an array of emotions : Anger, Desperation, Fear, Frustration, Guilt, Sadness, Suspense, Sympathy or Empathy and most especially, Pity...

The soundtracks used for the drama also fits perfectly with every suspense that cliff hangers gives us for each episodes.. Furthermore, the cinematography was befitting especially with the heavy and dark atmosphere of the drama.

There were some scenes though that happened in the series for me which I find to be questionable or unnecessary for it dragged the plot a bit but overall, the introduction, climax and episodes near the end were quite good since the plot flowed well.. Some viewers may also find the pacing of the story to be slow however, I actually see this an advantage most especially that this drama is focused on the complexity of the crime and we also get to see progress or good development of not just the plot but also the characters in order for the story to not be rushed..

In conclusion, if you're looking for a long watch that will surely give you a roller coaster of emotions, then this will be for you... Although, this drama is fictional, we also have to understand that all the things the character had done in the story should not be taken lightly for those things are happening in real life. Still, the societal issues tackled within the series regarding psychopaths or serial killers are important and should be taken note of...

Finally, I'd also like to share the last line mentioned at the end of the drama said by one of the main cast...

"Did the deity / almighty gave that as a punishment for him or perhaps a chance for him to be saved?"

Indeed, it's a perfect rhetorical question for a great ending that will surely evoke all the viewers to ponder about it...

Moreover, this drama reminded me of what Martin Luther King Jr. once stated, “You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me.” “In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer."

These lines said by Martin Luther King Jr. would best describe the character in this drama... Applause for Mouse for doing a great job in transporting viewers in the mind of a Complex Character : A Psychopathic Killer...

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