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Jigeum uri hakgyoneun (2022)
All of them should be dead yea!
Not your usual train to Busan spread over 540minutes Zombie fiesta. You'll be disappointed.
The starting looks promising, like most Korean shows. It escalated once the kidnapped student got her first bite. From then on, hell broke loose and quick. But I don't buy the story of this outbreak not reaching outside the city given the modern instant tech we have now. You'll telling me thousands of student though surrendered their phones for class and not one of them has a stealth phone somewhere??
How the capital, Seoul and their white house and no international coverage was mentioned for outbreak of this scale is beyond me.
Plot holes are too constant as show progress. The main cast of students all live like cat's life, outwitting speedy zombies throughout the show without a scratch hardly, with sometimes 1V1 fend off. Bear in mind these students hadn't had a meal or sip of water for days yet their adrenalin never seems to wear off.
The Shakespearian little romances between some of them are putting me off so much that I fast forward to the action most of the time. Who has the time to confess to their crush when you not eat drink or poop in days, stinky all over with cracking lips?!
Director could have spare us the melodrama and trim this down to 8 eps of pure adrenaline pumping thriller.
Visual is good don't get me wrong. The acting skills of all the walking and running zombies deserves a shout out, more than the humans, yea and the director's.
Now many aspects of the show barely fit much of the logic, which plays a huge part to a serious film watcher like me.
Why would Einstein the scientist ask the detective to retrieve his laptop for the remedy? When eventually, he mentioned there was none and only way is to wipe out, disintegrate the bodies. HELLO? Michael Owen moment there...
Who decides how long the bitten will turn into zombies?? We saw 3 seconds, 3 minutes, 3 weeks (Genius girl) . Are they generically decided? Or environmentally?? Or to the director's mood??
And who decides who turns into a super zombie?? (Die hard cyclone, genius girl, bullied girl etc) they virtually have nothing in common! Intelligence or physicality wise. Pretty far fetched by now the story.
And what do the zombies hunting based on? The sound as they put it? Visuals? Smells? If it's sound they would have pound on anyone moving even fellow zombians ain't it? If it's visual they would pound on the super zombies as they still walk and look like humans. If it's smell (they bypass super humans) they wouldn't have to depend on sounds then! Directors discretion again I guess.
Die hard cyclone was so annoying at first as he die hard.... But I kinda rooted for him in later stages as those students were a pain to watch by now with their forgettable escaping ideas. I just wise cyclone killed them all.
And if genius girl aka Seline underworld had the power all along after turning into super zombie why can't she put herself in the front for most escapades?? She's strong as hell as seem in final stages (neck breakers so on) what a waste!
It's a shame I would have like to have see bullied girl super zombie take on cyclone for a kill bill showdown! They didn't mentioned her whereabouts when the series ended. What a bummer. Not some Seline underworld flew away to the covenant OMG.
Since the story was half wrecked by now, I may as well see a super zombie lover boy1 take on Cyclone! But that was not to be as well...What a letdown
Here's the likeable;
Liam Neelson adventure to save her daughter was heart warming to see until the absurd tennis court get to the chopper moment. Okay before that, why he opened the hall door to see her daughter?? It could be dozens of zombies with all those hard banging! Directors answer this please.
The detective or his sidekick actually. A humorous acting better than most of other characters. Brings a laugh whenever his seemingly cowardice character came back to help out!
The little girl, saved by Ripley. What a performance and a tear jerker in the restaurant of her enduring the lost of the mother, now a walking dead.
The Archery sis, aka Katniss Everdeen the only coolest human character I like in the show. Wish the show revolves around her slaying the dead instead of the many Shakespearian plays we had to put up with.
All in all, if your in for entertaining purposes then this will probably work for you.
For serious film watchers like me all the little nonsensical is a deciding factor on the overview.
Season 2? Bring back die hard cyclone instead of loverboy1 please. And bullied girl super zombie has yet to unleash her potential. Make use of that.
Anita (2021)
A fitting tribute to a legend
First of all, please disregard the critics who are playing down the film. Either they did not watched it and not intending to or they have an agenda againt any pro ccp artists who are featured in any movies, dramas or songs. Sad but yes, those folks are irrational and impartial in almost anything in HK now and will stood real low to put down any pro ccp even if they are betraying their own nation and tribe.
From a non Hkger point of view but an avid mandopop followers in the 80s, 90s of the Golden era, the film surely depicted a nostalgic vibe with the familiar household names and old streets of HK.
The film is too short to illustrate all high and lows of Anita's legacy. I'm sure many will agree if this was to be a trilogy instead. The authenticity of the film is on the highly believable side as many of Anita's closest friends and work mates were sought for their perspective on her before the film was made.
Her dedication, drives and empathy were greatly paraded throughout the film. Her rise to stardom and the queen throne were achieved with pure grit and perseverance.
Yes, the main lead Louise could not achieved a 100% resemblance to Anita, but so did any other biography movies...No one is 100% identical in real. Not even twins. So when you hear critics berate the film based on this you can basically walk away. Louise for a debutant, scores high on my ground. For portraying the queen without a sense of awkwardness felt throughout the film. She even gets better as the film progresses, some scenes which you will be unable to tell if it's her or Anita. Magical, indeed.
The part of her and Leslie I believe striked a chord and brought tears to the older crowd. This film is indeed a reminisce of the mandopop peak era across the whole of Asia that us Chinese were so proud of. The grim fact is that the Chinese younger gens are rather into kpop jpop and western pop now instead of their own native tongue.
Apart from Bruce Lee and Ip Man, Asian film industry are not willing to risk biographies due to low returns from box office. Let's hope this Anita will change the scope and bring back legendary artistes that left us early.... Danny Chan, Leslie Kwok, Roman Tam, Lydia Sum and more.