Reviews

Not Good Enough

Japanese Drama '' Honey Lemon Soda '' is a school romantic comedy with a basic plot.

The beginning of the drama, if I have to be honest, was enjoyable enough, typical shoujo manga adaption, but entertaining nevertheless. The characters seemed interesting and their chemistry was spot on.

However, the story started getting boring and frustrating. Especially the leading lady's character was too hopeless and the drama that appeared here and there to spice up the story was eye rolling. But, I appreciated that they had them as a couple halfway through the movie and not just at the end.

The performances, finally, were all good by every actor and actress of the cast.

So, overall, three out of ten.

Leia Mais

Not Good Enough

Japanese Drama '' Mune ga Narunoha Kimi no Sei '' is a school romantic comedy with a more or less basic story.

The movie has a smooth pace and it has its moments, but, the overall result isn't something memorable. In fact, it took some time a few days after watching it, to remember what this movie was about. That is mainly because of the story which is a typical shoujo manga adaption style movie with few surprises when it comes to the plot. The atmosphere was youthful and light though.

The performances, moreover, were between decent to bad, but the actors and actresses of the cast are still young and probably need more experience. Plus, the genre of the story makes any mistake passable.

So, overall, five out of ten.

Leia Mais

Not Good Enough

Japanese Movie '' The Door Into Summer '' is the adaption of the novel by the same title. The story is a sci fi drama about time traveling and family.

And even though the story is interesting, the length of the drama didn't allow it to fully develop. Thus, it felt like watching a sequence of events that followed one another like a highlight read rather than a smooth progress. Also, some themes weren't handled nicely enough.

The cat, on the other hand, was cute. And the performances by every actor and actress of the cast was enjoyable.

So, overall, four out of ten.

Leia Mais

Secret Friendship

Excellent diplomatic (historical!) action triller drama, with a touch of comedy - a standard Korean recipe of mixed genres put together to provide a complete experience. In the execution, the movie is both very realistic and surreal with many well thought details that add to the quality of production and to the message. Look for example where they put "Welcome to Mogadishu" sign in the movie about escape from the city. There is only one moment in the movie (where one person tries to raise a white flag) that i found stupid, but i understand how it was needed to add some extra intensity and peril for our main protagonists. The director does a great job never letting the movie to become boring but always adding new elements of suspense.
The title of the movie reveals what the movie is about - an escape from a city/country caught in civil war, but the real drama starts when you have both South and North Korean Diplomats having to work together. This on its own made the movie worth it.
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I just watched this movie for a second time as the opening movie of a Korean Movie Week here in Croatia and i was surprised how i enjoyed the movie now even more then when i saw it for the first time. Seeing it sitting near Korean ambassador in our Country and with a fully packed theatre of audience that laughed and gasped and cheered was an adrenaline rush, and also to me personally i managed to find many new details that i didn't see during my first watch. At this time when we have more conflicts in the world, the message of this movie is even more important.

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A must see. A gem & they should all be very proud

A must watch. It's slow. It's quiet. It is superbly acted. The locations and sets are full of emotional jarring sound ever so quietly. What a gem. I cried out loud.

There are multiple POV's/versions of one man's moment in time. It is great story telling. It shows you how you never really know the whole story no matter how much you think you know the person.

This is about survival by more than one person. About how one person makes a difference. Both good and bad. How one decision changes your course.

Most of all,
My wish is one world where we can be at peace, happy and proud to love and be loved as our hearts and minds see fit.

Thank you to all those that made this film.

Please leave encouraging comments to the actors page. They read it!

Thank you.

Leia Mais

Left me empty

I watched this movie a few years ago when I first got into cdramas and movies and trust when I say this I was emotionally INVESTED in this movie. In some of the parts I was so lost but igs the comments on the movie kinda explained everything like the death of her family member I was so confused when they showed the red cloth thingy on her arm luckily someone commented what the red cloth meant.
As for the ending, it absolutely tore me like what??? Idk if I should add the deleted scene as a part of the movie or not. Like does she just assume he got the other girl pregnant and leaves or does he come and explain everything to her and they end up together. There basically two endings for whoever wanted to choose whichever ending they wanted but i feel like they should've made the ending clear so we know whether if they met in the end or not.
Its been years and I still feel empty everytime I think about this movie, my heart genuinely hurts for them considering I was so invested in them.

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Who needs a Prince Charming when the dame in stunning dress comes riding a white horse in high heels

Well! Bella & Bright in Thai-Indian collab is something I didn’t know I needed. This is such a refreshing and fun watch. Was so thrilling watching the familiar Thai artists dancing to a Hindi number in Indian attires.
This got beautiful cinematography and some exquisite scenes. Also this has many laugh-out-loud moments.

The story is much better than many of the mindless Indian movies. I know how it goes next since I grew up watching them but still few moments were surprising. But for the ones who never tasted the Indian stuff this might be super entertaining or weird. Anyway don’t expect a groundbreaking story since it’s a rom-com.

Bella! Bella! Bella! She’s extremely beautiful, talented and needless to say single-handedly carried the entire movie. Bright on the other hand is not so bright in few scenes. He does a decent job but he’s kinda lacking at times. Coming to the Indian couple I’m an avid Indian TV viewer but never heard of them. Anyway they were okayish. All the others did an okay job too.

I don’t understand the negative comments regarding the accents. Like the ones commented got the perfect accent or whatever. Perfection is scam. Anyway given this is a Thai movie and they are Thai artists imo they spoke EXTREMELY well. Anyway British colonized India for nearly 200 years and it’s not surprising if we talk to one another in English even at our homes. There’s no such thing as the usage of our pure mother tongues anymore. English just rolls in. So as an Indian it isn’t weird to see the Indian families in this speaking to each other in English.

Music is not good but not bad either. Liked the first rap(!) tho.

The wedding scene in this became my favorite after Crazy Rich Asians’s. So beautiful. Loved the fire juggling too.
Overall this is hella vibrant, entertaining with beautiful costumes and comedy.
Hope Bella & Bright will be paired again in a lakorn. Can’t get enough of them. :)

Leia Mais

confusing short movie

Overall: I really wanted to like this movie but I did not like one of the lead characters and was confused by the timeline/plot. 35 minutes, aired on Wayufilm's YouTube channel.

What I Liked
- production value
- the actors did a good job
- the ending scene was sweet

Room For Improvement
- the timeline was confusing, the friends met up and Motor had a scar, they went on a ride but then their clothes changed (I think this was a continuity error though), then Motor hung out with his girlfriend and the other guy got unreasonably angry, then there was a flashback to a year ago where the same girlfriend he was dating in the present cheated on him and Motor got into an accident, then in the present (a year later) Motor decided to break up with his girlfriend???
the above would have made sense if that was a different girlfriend but I re-watched and it definitely seems to be the same actress, why didn't Motor break up with her for a year after that incident? or was she not actually cheating and he was just sad that she cancelled plans but they kept dating? but his friend didn't know he was dating for a year???

- didn't like how Gentle got angry at Motor when he spent time with his girlfriend, then Gentle doing the silent treatment and basically threatening to end the friendship, it would have made more sense if we had seen a montage of Motor constantly cancelling plans with Gentle last minute
- some of the scenes dragged a bit and could have been cut for faster pacing
- they seemed to establish both of them as straight with the girlfriend stuff and then talking about never holding a guy's waist before, felt like a 'gay for you' trope

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suite convenable

c'est la suite du believer 1 de 2018. L'action se situe avant la fin du premier film, avant le grand-nord.
Je conseille vivement de regarder le 1er film, même après l'avoir vu on se perd un peu au début.
c'est dommage que l'acteur Ryu Joon Yeol ne soit plus là, le nouveau est moins convaincant à mon avis.
De plus le personnage incarné par Han Hyo Joo n'est pas crédible du tout.
Sinon le film se regarde bien, il y a beaucoup d'action, de scènes intenses et violentes.
Les lieux de tournage sont très jolis et bien filmés.
Jo Jing Woong est toujours aussi bon, comme dans le premier (ou comme dans la série signal).

Leia Mais

A piece of art...

Perhaps leaving a review after 6 years, when everything has already been said by other people, is meaningless, but my head is full of contradicting thoughts right now, and there's no real place to express them.

The cast was chosen perfectly, the music was spectacular, because I'm a sucker for classical music. The plot...
Art isn't something that everyone can do, and we know it. My future profession is politics, and perhaps I'll have to deceive myself and my commitments, become coldhearted and kinda deprived of the chance to express my true feelings.
The psychology of art is a subject of extensive studies, and it goes without saying that art and emotion are homogenous in some way. A true piece of art can be born only when you lay bare your true feelings, emotions, pain, struggles and etc. The same goes for acting.

Jae Ha is someone who loses himself every time when he gets to play a new role. His character becomes his doppleganger, that's the reason he is a well-known veteran actor. He is devoted to his job, consequently he doesn't bare tardiness and slothfulness from his partners.
Young Woo is exhaused. Girls running around him trying to take a pic or touch him is a usual part of his life and perhaps he was tired of doing the same thing every day. Acting is something that helps a lot in recognizing yourself better, finding our your limits, so he wanted to try something new. I bet he could never know that he would get deeply infatuated with the veteran actor, who himself, despite his age and experience, never knew he could ever fall in love with his acting partner, because his method of acting had never let him down.

Yes, as far as I'm concerned he had feelings for Young Woo, albeit he couldn't accept them till the end. The inner battle he was going through was obvious - him running every day as fast as he can to drop those thoughts out of his head, being startled and speechless after every physical contact he made with Young Woo (the photoshoot, for example, which wasn't a part of the play). During the play he kissed Young Woo and also wasn't a part of it. That was something that he wanted himself.

Young Woo felt like he had been toyed with, because he truly believed that there was something between them. The reason he could perfectly execute his role is that he loved Jae Ha the way Singer loved Walter: madly, deeply, passionately. In the end of the performance he indeed tried to commit suicide,

But the age gap says it all. Being a young man who wants to explore the world and open himself up to new things and a middle aged man who understands the laws of attraction. It's comprehensible why Young Woo was ready to tell everyone about his, their feelings (my feelings, our feelings): he is young, vigorous, ready to overcome obstacles, because is there anything impossible when you're young?
Jae Ha is a middle aged man who can foresee the consequenses of jumping the gun and sacrificing everything. Let's take into account that homosexuality isn't something widely accepted in Korea.
At the same time, I can't deny the fact that he had feelings for Young Woo. When the latter told him that he was ready to tell everyone, he just held his face in his hands and that moment I felt his rue. During the play we could notice the thin line between the play and reality: he mixed up the names, forgot what was a part of a play and what was not. That's why, in the end, Young Woo is the perfect Singer and Jae Ha is just Walter.

I don't believe that there's a happy ending for them despite the open ending which lets us interpret it ourselves. They will go their separate ways but there's no doubt that they left an unerasable trace in each others lives.

I know that my review is as messy as the plot of "Unchain" but that's what it is. Actually, there are more thoughts invading my head right now, but I can't put them in words. This was breathtaking, compelling, and definetly not for everyone due to it's intrication.

Leia Mais

Promising premise but less impact

Extremely mundane style of storytelling, most of the scenes were done using silent suspense but sometimes it's really a little too much for such a simple story to be stretched this long. Visuals is the stronger aspect of this movie, that seemingly permanent grease and greyish hue smudges the small suburb which doesn't look like having much of a future, it really sparks the underlying pressure for the poor to abandon their morale just to survive the unjust in this corrupted society. It's a promising premise in gritty and stylish low tone, but can't really say the same for its lukewarm impact towards the ending.

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A series worth of feelings

This is a gentle, beautiful story of two high school girls and their feelings for each other. The lead actresses co-wrote and directed it. They're a couple in real life and their connection as friends and life partners shines through. It was lovely to spend some time with these engaging and charismatic characters.

The writing on this is very clever. They were able to work a lot into the 38 minutes without it feeling rushed or incomplete. There's more of Mar & Lei's story to tell, but this was enough. Whether Ward and Klio return to these characters or start something new, I hope these talented writers/directors/actors have many more opportunities to share their vision and talent with us.

Leia Mais

Short especially for those who do not have a problem with minority groups with a special focus, the Korean guys played it well. Of course, the picture doesn't reach the highest rating for me, but it was nice, including the ending, the processing is very solid and as you can see, not even in Korea do guys like this have a bed of roses, but that's probably almost nowhere...



Kraťas především pro ty, kteří nemají problém k menšinovým skupinám se zvláštním zaměřením, korejsští kluci to zahráli fajn. Jistě, snímek na nejvyšší hodnocení u mě nedosahuje, ale bylo to pěkné včetně závěru, zpracování velmi solidní a jak je vidět, ani v Koreji nemají takovíto kluci na růžích ustláno, ale to asi téměř nikde ...

Leia Mais