Reviews

The good, aesthetic, nice fight scenes

The bad?
Non believable skinny girl vs not only muscled men, 10s of men but also weaponed men
It wouldn’t have hurt them to add more characters even female and let her have her own set of comrades and not just a teen
The story was flat, no connection to any character no sympathy and super detached

Also extremely misogynist, not only were women the toys and victims of these drug dealers, but if this was a man saving the day, he’d have been feared, praised, respected but they kept calling her crazy btch, satanic btch, not taken seriously, and overreacting??? Dude does anyone ever call a revenge driven male lead as “overreacting”?
“Aw dude why are you killing us you’re so overreacting”
did anyone ever say that to ma dong suk?
And worst of all “spoiler”, near his death bed and he says she was fat? Fat? Really? He murders someone and goes “ah man she was so fat I thought she lied about being a ballerina”, and I mean like what fat? She was a walking twig

kim mu yeol is everywhere yet he’s always such a generic character with no impact

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I was debating between 8.5 or 9 maybe even 9.5, so let me start with the good first,

High budgeted jdrama historical, I’m not too well experienced in jdrama historicals and the ones I’ve seen are always so, budget friendly to say it nicely, poorly expensed would be more accurate
not saying they weren’t good but yeah it felt like they used pocket money to make the set and outfits

Anyway, this felt nicely expansive, good setting and everything
Ml, tho I only watched one ep of the anime, he wasn’t as cold here, more like reserved out of shyness cuz he never dealt with women and he seemed well social with the guys, so ml just felt cutely naive rather a cold jerk

The bad, too much too little, so many things happened yet it still felt so rushed, not enough setting grounds, suddenly ppl wanted revenge and suddenly a new character with his whole backlog came up
The fl, dang is it a kink? I mean I get the Cinderella effect, but man this chic was a mouse
so self loathing, so much inferiority complex, yeah she had “background reasons” but it’s also the writers weird fetish

tbh I would’ve loved something like queen charlotte, there’s no reason she couldn’t have been smart cuz she studied alone, there was no need for her to be a genius but everything felt like an excuse “I’m not smart enough for you, I’m not pretty enough for you” that’s disgusting

And yeah that’s why my rating kept going down
Like I came from stories like The Awakening by Kelly Armstrong (?), and the whole setup of dumb blondes later realizing they’re the most powerful person ever, I mean we can even say Bella from Twilight. Anyway but this girl I swear I wanted to punch her so bad

And by the time one reads this for there’s no need to mark spoilers but even if she was strong, dang that girl fell so much like she was made of glass
So yeah if there’s a second season I want a drama not a movie, cuz hopefully she “grows up” and atleast becomes a zootopias Jody

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My dearest isn’t subbed so I thought I should wrap this off

It took me two and a half watches, and idk how long it’s been since it aired but it took that long to motivate me to watch

This is actually my kind of story especially being based on real events, the unusual friendships and the underdogs, but idk it didn’t feel too deep and emotional it felt basic and flat, no real presence to the characters and no connection
Iu is adorable and I’ve missed her in dramaland
I don’t think her movies are that well made, tho I do blame the lack of female empowerment in movies more than dramas, you literally can’t ever find female centered movies or female characters that aren’t a side pretty face

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seo hyun jin was AMAZING literally so amazing everything she did made me cry
And this was going well until the third part where it just didn’t make sense anymore
There were many things they could’ve done better and it left a “unfinished” taste

Her dad getting into an accident, her caregiver turning out to be a creep, her getting lost in the mountains, finding her way back home to again almost have those mountain idiots try to take her again, the female caregiver being so condescending.. and she was the “best”?

Like, how sad was it that she had no friends, her dad’s friends never asked about her, those mountain idiots not only didn’t wonder where she went, they didn’t care she didn’t return with them
And the dad not telling the ex, I get it but dude she wouldn’t remember saying she didn’t want them to know and of course her family would care about her, I wish they had more daughter/mom moments cuz that could’ve been as heartbreaking as the dad/daughter

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Basic and not sweet
It’s about two people that had a trauma about relationships, they found each other and started an overly long awkward relationship

Without the last misunderstanding this could’ve been way shorter
The older brother though I’d love to watch a movie with him

thing was funny about this, she didn’t trust men so she chose a naive guy and he never made a move on a woman so he needed an action taker
Simple and perfectly made for each other
The bro and daughter carried the trauma with them more that they caused the last conflict, but I was disappointed when he hit his brother when he kept saying he didn’t do anything

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a 4 year tradition!

I do hope they make more :(
I’ll start with the good, the acting, Rohan as a character, the art and hunting aspect are great

The bad, the pacing wasn’t smooth, the teen vr wasn’t interesting and the connection didn’t happen until the last ten minutes or so
Which was also the moment the plot actually moved, so for a two hour movie, that’s a bad balance, eventho there was a search, it wasn’t that complicated, it was all so simple but it took so long to reach
Fl eventho she has her charm, she’s also a bit like a NPC/ helping hand, she’s always not treated as a person, more like a blank sheet
The connection between Rohan and nazuki(?), eventho appreciated, that story felt disconnected beside the black haired lady


Why was he the old painter? I really loved the acting, even the ironic “if he didn’t go back to his family, his sick wife and him would’ve not died”, which is a poetic remoteness
But why was he acted by takahashi? And sure the black hair lady wanted the painting and her husband’s curse broken but

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I think I was too kind giving pt1 a 10, tho Kim taeri is a certified 10 every time

This was like a tv show that was cut into two seasons with a year gap, the story continues right where it left off but the memories were hazy, I remember the events but not the plot

My mom also watched pt1 I think? I think I was working and I made her watch. it wasn’t a watch with me so she didn’t remember it well


I feel like, acting and visuals were 10/10, the mix of time travel, historical times, and aliens was cool, but the characters lacked much depth and presence, everything was too convenient to wrap up the story from the start
It’d would’ve been better as a tv show with a bit more scenes at the end

The plot “twist” of the evil one being in her and the robot dad giving his powers to ml then thunder being the catguys was nice
But it didn’t give much time for character exploration, everything just fell into place to make the last fight

Mom wanted to see how he’d go back to her? he got the taxi part but how will he know where she is?
And it’s kinda sad, she lost her childhood in the future and she’s back to her present as an adult and lost her dad/uncle dad?
But atleast ml could go to her?

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fun crazy, not overboard

I really liked this, it was different, crazy, the comical timing was on point, a makjang in events but still entertaining and not too over the top gore or extreme traumatic

I’ve been scared by old kmovies, like some just go outside the human capabilities of evil and imagination just for the sake of being different and special but it’s just disgusting, and this wasn’t

the movie starts with our "stalker" ml, it's not a happy movie with "good" people
as we dive deeper, we realize ml isn't the worst of the evils, but not everything goes as planned and it keeps creating more problems
Like for the lvl of crazy they had, they also had that unbelievable trust of the cop lady to balance it out
later with the twist, the villain is always 10 steps ahead but our scared unhinged ml doesn't do things as "planned" and it creates more and more problem

But it wasn’t rainbows and sunshine, she didn’t trust him out of the goodness of her heart, and she wasn’t picking sides

if they were real psycho they'd have the ml fall for the fl and make it more nitty gritty but it didn't, it wasn't obsession, it was fascination and he loved infos not her

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فيلم واقعي جدا

الفيلم بيحكي عن بنت كانت ناجحة بشغلهاو عندها طموحات كبيرة فجأة بتلاقي نفسها حامل .. و هالحمل قلبها حياتها 360 درجة ..
الفيلم بيحكي عن كل فترة الحمل و عن كل الاشياء اللي عاشتها خلال فترة حملها ..
حبيت كيف كانت رافضت الفكرة بالاول و كيف بلشت تتعلق فيه كل ما كبر ببطنها
فيلم ريتمه ممكن يعتبره البعض بطيء او ممل لكن هو بالعكس
بنصح كل اللي ما شافه يحضره ............

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EVERYTHING IS JUST OKAY AND ENOUGH FOR THE MOVIE TO BE COMPLETED

First of all I was actually shocked that this movie is based on a true story, As I think of it , since we fans of Korea and Korean culture, we are or most of us is aware of the division of Korea country North and South and as I think about this movie, since the 2 countries are in conflict, maybe this movie is created to tell ill about the North Korea ? and to show that North Korea is Cruel and South is not ? these are my thoughts .. because there was a scene here where the Yeo Jin Goo's story was shown and how his mother died, we can see there that there is a reason why he was like that .. too bad that he included everyone at the airplane about his issues in life.
The movie was okay , I started to think what would I do in such a situation, where there was really no equality that time, about the gender and the status in life and there was not a lot of discoveries and improved technologies yet that we are having right now and then those kind of things happened .. If I was a passenger there and have survived too, I promise that I would never ever get into an airplane anymore .. why ? because that is a traumatic event !
The movie was not that good but it was not also bad, it was sad .. sad that the pilot died , I actually thought that he will survive with one hands but since he has lost too much blood there was no way he was able to survive in that state ..
Every actors was great here , I can always assure and vouch how good the acting of Korean actors were .. specially Yeo JIn Goo, in my entire Kdrama K movie and Kpop fanning , Yeo JIn goo's acting is one of the best acting I ever saw ! so this is guaranteed .. I just don't know what it is that the movie is lacking ( this is only my opinion ) I felt something is lacking I just don't know what it is, or maybe I did expected too much , or maybe because it was short ? but the movie is all in all a good enough movie its like what you see is what you get , let's just say it that way.
I probably never gonna re watch this movie again .

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The message of the film is heartwarming

Maybe because I really relate to Makoto but the story flows perfectly too, I felt all the emotions that Makoto felt and learned so much lessons from the film. It hits deep in me because I am exactly like Makoto before, though I overcome some bits of it as I grew older.

The concept of the soul called "Blank" seems to be quite confusing to me since the story never shows how the life of the soul that was assigned to Makoto looks like. It's a really interesting perspective to the viewers on how a completely different person (in this case, the new soul) would judge Makoto's life and understand his life objectively. Only thing that confuses me is the ending that says "Makoto is me" and how the Guardian would say that "decades later, you will be reincarnated as Makoto". This suggested that there would be elements of time travel in the story? And that the new soul is actually Makoto himself, just in the state where he had his confidence before?

I really wish they showed more scenes of Makoto and Akira as I believe they had a deeper relationship and less scenes of Mitsuki though I completely understand how Mitsuki would later be one of many to contribute to Makoto's death since everything is shown in Makoto's perspective.

Really happy to know about this movie that I could relate so much although I watched it late. Kento Nagao has so much potential, hope to see him in more movies and shows.

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Kao Pao Shu, one of the few women directors of martial arts movies during the Golden Era, directed The Cannibals in 1972. I have no idea where the English title came from as there were no cannibals in sight. Even the body count was low for a kung fu flick.

The plot bounced all over the place at the beginning. It didn’t help that the copy I saw was faded with white subtitles over the pale images. A relief fund of 8000 silver coins was stolen from robbers who hit the convoy during the transport. During the melee, the chief escort officer was killed with a bamboo machete. Local crime boss Tsang had ordered the robbery and thought that bamboo boss Chin hit the escort, stealing his plunder in order to pay back money he owed. The actual robbers hid the money on Boss Chin’s land until things settled down. Tsang wanted Chin’s daughter, Lin Tang, to marry him, something she had no intention of doing. And finally thrown into the mix was Pao Liang, the younger brother of the murdered escort chief. Pao strolled into town determined to bring the killers to justice.

Chang Yi starred as Pao Liang, a rare good guy role for him. Chen Chen played the feisty Lin Tang who wasn’t afraid to fight anyone. Chen Hung Lieh who was always assigned the villain roles due to his resting bitch face played the smarmy crime boss Tsang. Wang Yung Sheng did the choreography which would have been challenging with some of the non-martial arts actors. Chang Yi had studied some and performed several impressive jumps. The stuntmen had their work cut for them as most of the fights were big gangs against one or two. They had to sell the limited abilities of Chen Chen and Chen Hung Lieh by flipping, falling, and soaring through the air. During the finale with Chang Yi against the world not a piece of furniture was spared in the gambling den as stuntmen flew over the balcony repeatedly and through the walls. The problem with these grand scale fights was that all the moves began to look the same.

If you are a fan of old kung fu films, The Cannibals is watchable. There were some cute moments with the child actors and flirtatious moments between Pao and Lin Tang. The fights and acting were average for the time frame as was Ni Kuang’s story. It just lacked any kung fu charisma. Chang Yi was always more compelling as an OTP villain.

4 August 2024

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