Reviews

“Okay, but why?” and “Okay, but how?”

Were the questions I kept asking as I was watching, and I did not receive answers for the majority of them. The only things the movie had to offer were gore and the performances. The writing was nonexistent just like the logic behind the rules of the curse/hypnosis.

There were maybe 2 decent characters, but none that truly caught my attention. Most of the teens were either boring and just there to die in creative ways, or borderline psychos, and the laughable attempt to make it seem like “everyone would act this way in a similar situation” just made me laugh. There is a difference between doing awful things for survival, and doing awful things for survival while also laughing and enjoying yourself.

The ending is just dumb. Makes sense in the most shallow perspective, but when you start to think about it even slightly, it all falls apart.

Overall, they should have used some of the money from special and practical effects of gore to hire a better writer. Unless the source material is also this dumb, then there is no hope.

Leia Mais

I started this movie thinking that it is inspired by classic Korean dramas but got highly disappointed. It had got a good story with excellent actors but the script felt flat. the execution and editing were the worst. This was a 2 hr long movie and the scene would transition was pathetic. it feels like I had skipped something, but NO THE SCENES WERE NOT MISSING, NEITHER I SKIPPED, IT WAS LIKE FILL IN THE BLANKS or read in between the lines.

I didn't get the ending also, why is the ML running it was so confusing. and the romance when did that happen to make such an ending? it vibed like incest although they were not related so I definitely didn't like it.

The acting was average nothing special.

Leia Mais

Disposable entertainment about a non-disposable wife

Some HUGE dude has his wife kidnapped; the villain offers a sum of money that would turn the huge dude's life around, but he wants his wife back. Apparently, it's a first - everyone else took the money!
The huge dude then puts his size to use, one-punch-manning most minions who stand in his way of tracking his wife down and retrieving her. There's some failed comedy relief, the fights are realistic but not too great and the story isn't anything new, though it manages to hold the attention for the full running time.

To be honest, I'd much rather see tanks of men on screen than steroid freaks, so the lead in this is kind of refreshing and his stoicism made him always interesting, but this really is the typical middle-of-the-road kind of tale we've all seen before and there's not much to recommend it by.

That said, there's plentiful worse out there, so it's not a total waste of a film by any means.

Leia Mais

Movie wasn't what I really expected, I still think it's much better than the 1st season and the movie.

You need to watch at least the first movie and 2nd season in order to understand what is going on in this one. Also there's a lot of re-occurring characters from the first season/movie here.

- Since all of the series/movies under Prince of Legend is not much of a serious story, the plot isn't much as well here.
- It is another competition again with ikemens, this time with 'Aristocrats' and 'Princes'
- I love the aspect of concern between Team Next and Ryu, while trying to understand why one of Team Next member has changed to the Aristocrat side.
- All the boys are indeed an eyecandy, but I think Alan Shirahama (main actor) really took the spotlight here. Though I have to say that I prefer his acting in Season 2 as Shintarou instead. Him being as Dori in this movie, I had so many cringe moment with him being in that character, due to the change of personality. But he did well acting the part. I just wished his character was more opened to what was happening during the movie, since he's still Shintaro and the sudden shift to a different personality felt off and less compassionate unlike how he was in S2.

Spoiler
- The movie does end in a cliffhanger, and I'm hoping that despite LDH dropping the otome game based on this series is that they still finish off the Prince of Legend series. For me, I think the cliffhanger was actually the most interesting and intriguing part of what it seems like a much bigger and darker plot. If they do push it, I hope they get a much better screen writer and make a much better plot for the next.

Overall:
If you have gotten invested with the series, go ahead and watch this. It's still fun and enjoyable. I'm just hoping if LDH continues this series, that the plot will be much better.

Leia Mais

Again will mention this; if cheesy, cringe and exaggerated acting is not your cup of tea, this is not the thing for you.

I've done a review for the drama, and I have to say the same thing for this. If it wasn't for my love for the boys in this whole series, I may have dropped it.

This is a continuation from the drama. If you haven't watch the drama for this, you don't need to worry about that. Since they allotted 30mins of the movie for re-capping the drama series. You won't miss out much if you didn't watch the series.

- The movie is about the boys competing for the Prince of Legend title and some for Kanon (main heroine).
- I'll be honest not so happy with who the heroine ends up with, since I found the other boys had a much genuine love or reason for liking her.

Overall:
Same as my drama review. If you enjoy watching ikemens competing with each other and want something light and funny, you may want to try watching this. The boys did a good job with acting their roles.

Leia Mais

Hidden Blade best art house film

Hidden Blade is noir film artistic beautiful film.
Cinematography of hidden blade is amazingly outstanding and aesthetic!!!! There have plot-twist!!
Legendary Actor Tony Leung and Zhou Xun is so worth to watch. Young Actor Wang Yibo’s still get along with Tony Leung perfectly when he face-off with Tony on track scene, which is great performance exceeded audiences expectations!!!

Some people who gave 1 star or 2 star to film is obviously gave by anti because of they hate yibo a lot.
Even though anti hate yibo a lot, they should know and Google first who is Cheng Er and those legendary actors (Tony Leung, Zhou xun, Huang Lei ) willing to participate in this film.
Cheng Er’s Level is not cheap !!!
Those anti personally and obviously attack to yibo without watching Movie!!!
I accept some people may not like Cheng Er’s style but this is not bad film!!!

Leia Mais

Great beginning followed by a bit of disappointment

I didn't read the synopsis prior to watching this movie (or maybe I had read it at some point, but I don't remember it, so...), so I had no idea what's coming and wow. This movie definitely started off strong. It was fresh, fun and maybe a bit crazy (but in a good way) and I actually caught myself laughing out loud every few minutes. And the characters were adults, so there was the potential to be a bit more daring with the humour and I'm glad the writers made use of it, even tho it felt a bit embarassing at times. Bonus point for a likeable female character!

I can't compare this movie with the show (did I miss something not watching it?), but sadly I feel like Oh! My Assistant slowly started losing it spark as the movie progressed. Because somewhere along the way (thankfully it was towards the end) all the things I loved and named in the first paragraph were pushed aside just to be unceremoniously replaced with the most repeated and boring cliches known to the mankind. Misunderstandings, pretending and the last nail in the coffin, the "their best friend of years is actually in love with them". While the first two were funny maybe the first few times, repeating it over and over again without any talking (I mean, they talked, but kinda ignored it afterwards) was just frustrating. It's old, overused, and most importantly - it's not something that should be prioritized over the elements that were actually interesting and mainly - over the characters themselves. Because yes, it made the characters develop, but in a negative way. I mean slightly creepy second lead? Come on! You can do better. Another point - I don't know if the chemistry between the two main leads was getting worse with time or if it was almost nonexistent from the get go, but I feel that sometimes it would just be better to not make the main characters kiss and this is one of the cases.

The last thing I found kind off off-putting was the voiceover/characters saying out loud what they think or feel that happened every so often. It felt a little bit out of place - I don't know if those were remnants of the comic, lazy writing or just director's vision, but they became too noticable and honestly I don't understand their purpose. Wasn't there a less disruptive way to make the viewers understand?

But all in all, even though I named many things I didn't like, I still quite enjoyed watching this movie. As I mentioned before, it started off really strong, the actors were quite likeable and even though its potential wasn't used as much as it should be, maybe because the movie was rather short, it didn't get that MUCH worse, it was still fun and after it ended, I didn't feel like I wasted two hours of my time and was actually quite happy with it. But I would be much happier, if it just stayed light and fun without all the unnecessary drama.

Leia Mais

what the hell just happened to me ?

OMG , this was so cute in a way that I cannot describe.
A love so pure it almost felt like I was violating their privacy watching this.
The actors did an amazing job.

I'm not one to cry easely watching movies, sometimes I might shed a tear or 2. Reading the comments of people saying they cried so much I was like "Meh, probably not that bad".

I dindn't cry when he left Yuki.
I didn't cry when they got back together.
I didn't cry when I saw the cameo of HIStory : Make our days count (this series broke me in a way I'll never recover from).
I didn't cry when I saw that beautiful scene when the mom finally accepted her son and his partner relationship (this type of thing usually make me emotional)
I didn't cry during the beautiful montage of them growing old together.

That scene with the rings ... I LOST IT. I started sobbing like my life depended on it. In fact, I'm writing this review with so much tears in my eyes I can barely see my screen.

I cannot in good contience rate this movie very high on "rewatch value" because I'm never watching it again. I can't do this to myself again.

Fuck, I still can't stop crying. Somebody help me.
I'm going to rewatch Business Proposal so that I can gain my sanity back.

Bisous

Leia Mais

Not as good as MDL hyped it up to be! But almost as good as the original

After reading reviews here, I was expecting maybe too much. I enjoyed the first film a lot, so I was excited to see this anyway, but the reviews on this site made out that this was a massive improvement on the original in every department.
It wasn't.

Throwing in a half-Korean-American cop for more international appeal, this sequel opens with our North Korean hero and the said American losing the criminal they're both chasing... who then pops up in South Korea. Yes, a good way to get it all going...
but then it quickly goes downhill.
In the original, the South Korean cop was a bit of a loser and very funny; in this one, his introduction really lagged - so that high-octane start was right out the window!
Noodles aside, the gags were dumb and the calibre of writing clearly wasn't on a par with the first! Sadly, this would prove evident throughout the rest of the film.

The sister-in-law many of us saw as the perfect Korean "waifu" is back and, where the producers were smart to give her more screentime, she felt shamelessly additional to nearly all of her scenes outside of the home, making her nothing but fan-service,
And if you're going to do fan-service, why not go bikinis too?

Joking aside (I'm glad she kept her clothes on), the problem with ensemble cast films is that they tend to be overly long; this wasn't an exception! Many scenes felt devoid of humour and failed to drive the story forwards or develop characters, while the moment the hot sister-in-law meets the American is pure cringe!
I was hoping that she was trying to make the North Korean dude jealous, so that he'd be forced to act, but instead, she was just made to look bad.

The fights are okay in this; there's a lot of gunfire which isn't very interesting and the South Korean seems oddly bad-arse - which really cost comedic potential - but really, for me, the plot just wasn't anywhere near as good as the original. This one also left a few loose ends... which may be to set up a 3rd instalment, but I'm not sure the American cop would be needed, and just trying to get our handsome hero back to the South to finally settle down with you-know-who would take too much screentime already.

Leia Mais

Best Korean Movie of All Time

I didn't watch too many South Korean movies to be honest, but even after watching some great films like Parasite, A Taxi Driver, Mother,..., this film is still my favortie of all time.
The story is so well written, it started with some cliche criminal plot revolved around cocaine, drug but it impressed me when they brought children from poor family into the story. I was so moved watching how these children live and some even die, those things actually happen in real life and in my country (Vietnam), that's why I was so sastified seeing Won Bin's character killed them all, his action also came from the fact he really loves children, since his own kid passed away before the birth. From the opening with a small theft of a stripper, to the ending where the stripper's daughter has to say goodbye with the neighbor who is close to her like father, the script is a rollercoaster of emotion and well builded storyline, I totally love it.
The acting in this fim is tremendous. Won Bin transformed from drama MC to action hero was incredible, Saeron had her best role until now at the age of 10, and the villiains are on another level, the brothers and the Thai assasin stole the scene everytime they appeared, this film probably has one of the best acting in an action movie of all time.
I wasn't impressed with the music as much as story and acting but it isn't bad at all, still played its role nicely.
I watched this film around 10 times now, it's not only great film but also rewatchable film, believe me you won't feel sleppy even when you had watched it 5 times :)

Leia Mais

boring CGI mess

What a letdown.
The main problem is that the story is a) just kinda dumb and bad, and b) too condensed.
The protagonist is entirely bland (Good grief, is Raymond Lam ever a charisma black hole!) and none of the relationships get enough space, so any character development is impossible to believe.
All the twists, betrayals etc. are meaningless, because I feel nothing about any of the characters. (except for the princess, because she's hot)
And where the old KFCM worked - the crazy fun fights - just does not work here.
The fights are bland, fake looking and worst of all - boring.
It's just forgettable.

Leia Mais

Ultimately forgettable

I was looking forward to this, because it'd be cool if we finally got a complete adaptation, by the same director of my favourite version no less! Alas.
There are glimpses of 90s Hong Kong here and there, sadly brought down by a very "current" mainland Chinese film look (= often indistinguishable from a TV cdrama), lack of humor and bland CGI.
The actor playing Mokei is not charismatic.
Sadly while very similar to Kung Fu Cult Master, it's nowhere nearly as fun.
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Leia Mais

Loved it

This is a sequel to the original pornographer series and in my opinion this is the best out of the pornographer francize. I loved how the pornographer francize are told from the pov of one of the main characters. Mood indigo from the pov of Kido, Pornographer from the pov of Kuzumi and finally here from the pov of Kijima. We finally come to know the thoughts of Kijima, who is such a mysterious character even till now. He tend to keep stuff to himself and has a hard time to depend on someone. We come to know that Kijima is very lonely and afraid. He is afraid and not confident in himself that Kuzumi would need someone like him. He gets irritated and lashed out or runs away without notifying anyone. He also doesn't think about Kuzumi's feeling and he gets the consequences of it. So I really liked it when he went to Kuzumi and apologized to him without expecting him to forgive him and to get back together again. It was really wonderful.I also loved it that Kijima tried hard on his work so that he is not totally dependent on Kuzumi. A really wonderful sequel.

Leia Mais