Lemme be hopeful everyone bingewatched korean gems I've suggested so it's time for another worth watching, right? Well… Don't have time nor inspiration, bad work day. So this time, an "avoidware"!
City Hunter got 8.3 on imdb and 8.6 on mydramalist, must be awsome, right?
No.
It does start great. South Korea pulls a mission on North Korea but revealing it publically is not safe any more. It can have numerous bad consequences. To cover it up, they kill all of their own soldiers - dead mouth don't speak. One of soldiers survives and prepares a revenge on those who ordered it.
As expected in Korean shows, government officials are corrupted, every character is somehow connected to each other and there is plenty of romance and soapy melodrama going on. This one tries to upgrade the game by adding crime, action and thriller elements into it and makes the first half of the show is very interesting. Worth some 7-8 score.
Second half of the show, everything breaks apart. Previous "chemistry" between some characters disappears, acting drops down the toilet, the story becomes annoying and predictable, action and thrills get set aside to give enough time to unbelievable dialogues that drag and drag and drag. If I wanted to watch stalling boredom, I'd subscribe on twitch, right?
I have absolutely no idea how this mediocrity got so popular. There are so many better korean shows out there so if I stepped on a turd, you don't have to.
Watch only if you don't have anything else.