Change Your Image
jacoal
Ratings
Most Recently Rated
Reviews
Sanyanggaedeul (2023)
Expertly made, action-packed drama
This show is such quality, from the story, choreography, camera work, dialogue, suspense, everything is top-notch.
The characters are badass, the fighting is badass, each episode ends with a bang, leaving you wanting more, and each fight got my heart pumping, its rare to have such consistent quality present in a show.
Its also very brutal and can be heart-wrenching, this show barely pulls any stops, but if there is any complaints I could make, its that the protagonists made a few obvious 'this will lead to trouble later' mistakes by delaying actions that should have been done right away, but instead were done way later.
American Born Chinese (2023)
Frustrating ML, messy and incohesive show...
They merged Chinese mythological gods with an ordinary dude's high-school life and while it mostly works in the first few episodes, it becomes hard to watch around the 3rd episode, there is too much focus on Jin's high-school life and not enough of the mythological part.
Jin becomes frustrating when he finds out his new friend is a god and declines to go on adventures with him just to go do normal high-school stuff? Like hello? Why would you decline that? It becomes worse because after that it just focuses more of Jin's high-school life instead of the gods.
The ending was lame, all Jin ultimately did was jump, and his power wasn't explained at all, its weird pacing, episode 8 should have happened earlier with less emphasis on his plain school life, as it was too much setup for just a fart of a reveal.
Ultimately, the worlds don't feel like they mesh well due to painful ML writing and too much focus on the ordinary, I did enjoy the choreography, and seeing the Everything Everywhere cast again as that is my favourite movie but the show is only watchable due to everyone besides Jin.
Manifest (2018)
Frustrating, repetitive, all over the place
This show reminds me of the early David Cage games, where things are decent at first then goes completely crazy, lacking any sense, to a point where its all humorous and I don't care about any of the characters anymore. You can even see similarities with Ben and Cal Stone and Ethan Mars/Shaun Mars from Heavy Rain, and Ben even yells Cal's name in season 1 in a manner like Ethan did to his other son Jason.
First two seasons were a guilty pleasure, bingeable, lots of problems but overall felt like a 7/10, and by season 3, while there was some interesting developments, I was getting sick of the recycled antagonists, recycled character problems, and same frustrating situations.
Season 4 while having much better production quality, was even worse because problems/antagonists still just kept being recycled, there is this annoying, cliched, and uninteresting character, that just never goes away, and its like the sixth time they used this character when they could've easily gotten rid of and made a much better antagonist or problem to solve.
I heard there is a part 2 to season 4 next year, but I don't think I will be watching.
Hi Bye, Mama! (2020)
Started off really strong, but then a hundred flashbacks...
The first 3 episodes were amazing, I really thought this was going to be one of my favourites and it was great till episode 6-7 where the use of flashbacks would increase tenfold, I've never seen so many flashbacks since watching Naruto, and in this show they are usually used repetitively and to display menial and already established details to the viewer about the current scene.
There are even tons of flashbacks for stuff that happened 1-2 scenes back, so instead of finishing a scene, they would usually 75% finish it then fill in the rest 1-2 scenes ahead with a flashback, why can't they just finish the scenes? Why keep going back and forth a hundred times to tell your story? Its exhausting to watch.
The story of this show is pretty good for the most part, its a shame its told in such a non-linear and exhausting manner, but the music is great and there's even plenty of fun and humorous characters and scenes that make this show at least worthwhile.
If they just chopped off 4-6 episodes, stopped delaying everything with all the flashbacks of already established points such as the numerous flashbacks showing how much a character was mourned/missed/loved, when there is already 5 scenes previously displaying that then this show would've been great instead of just okay.
Also, I didn't like the ending, it didn't make sense given how the characters truly felt about each other.
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (2022)
Mediocre edgerunners
The animations and fight scenes are superb, but this show is way too fast paced, relationships between characters develop too quickly and feel unnatural, especially the romance in the first episode, there are way too many transitions, skipping of scenes that could've been fleshed out and given more time to add more emotional impact and give more time for the viewer to attach to and relate to the characters.
On top of that, I personally don't find to fun to watch stubborn and arrogant characters that don't learn from their mistakes or the repeated mistakes of others before them, don't listen to their teammates and that's the MC and half of the other characters as well so its annoying to watch.
Also, I don't think they did well with soundtrack, a lot of songs didn't fit their scenes and slightly ruined them as a result, and the ending was a big disappointment.
The Umbrella Academy (2019)
Its okay, but characters lack development/don't learn from past mistakes
A lot of the show would be solved if characters would just communicate with each other and ask each other questions, but they refuse to time and time again, even 3 seasons in, leading to easy to fix problems not being solved till the end.
Its just lazy writing, instead of solving problems by at least having a bit of communication and then creating new and interesting problems after, the writers decided to drag easy to solve problems throughout a whole season and then justify it by labelling the characters/family as dysfunctional.
It is so frustrating to watch, but at the same time, aside from the problems, there are still many entertaining moments, fights, and funny dialogue within scenes so I gave it a 6.
Hell House LLC (2015)
Too much nonsense, very disappointing
I saw this recommended next to Gonjiam and REC, and I loved those movies, but this one is not even comparable to those two in terms of scariness, acting, or effects.
This movie is bloated with too many interviews with bad acting/characters smirking half the time when they're supposed to be serious, and there is way too much downtime between 'scares' or even the buildup to scares, most of the movie is interviews -> characters having dumb conversations -> scare scenes, but like 90% of it is the interviews and conversations.
There were only two scenes that were kind of scary, but nothing made me jump, and there was no sense of eeriness throughout the film that I've read others have experienced.
Jiok (2021)
Interesting concept and okay show overall, but...
The protagonists made way too many dumb decisions, which got me frustrated with the show many times throughout and made them unlikeable, antagonists were not likeable as well.
There just was huge lack of likeable characters for most of the show, and the show left me with so many questions, but so little answers.
Fortunately, character likeability picked up near the end so I'll watch the next season, but if nothing gets answered, and characters don't smarten up during season 2, I will likely stop watching.
To be fair to my unhelpful review, I can and have suspended my disbelief to enjoy shows a lot, just look at my ratings, plenty of English or Korean shows I rated well with characters others would consider too dumb instead.
Also, I notice with shows, Korean ones especially, imdb has too many haters that rate 1, or stans that rate 10 to offset the haters and to hopefully bring more Korean media around the world, but please it is better to be honest with you're ratings, a lot of imdb review pages seem too artificial because of these false ratings, you are not helping.
Ragnarok (2020)
First season was good, second season not so much
Its an okay show overall, but it misses the mark many times throughout, and this I feel has a lot to do with its high-school setting, since its set in high-school, characters act like high-school kids, which are oftentimes incredibly awkward, dumb, indecisive and assholish.
Anytime, I complain about these characters, I hand wave it away and remind myself that there in high-school, so of course they're gonna act that way, but unfortunately that doesn't mix well with the magnificent tales of Norse mythology, and if anything it serves as a detriment, at least with how the writers have written it.
Another problem is its length and character development, with only 6 episodes, it feels really bad to watch characters being constantly indecisive or doing complete 180s with their personality, and it feels really unnatural when its too sudden, but if they just added more time, they could make character changes/development happen more gradually rather than out of nowhere, or they could keep it 6 episodes and just make the characters less indecisive.
Season 2 had a lot more promise than season 1, from where it left off in season 1, to the cool new characters introduced in this season, it really felt like it was going somewhere, but it hardly did, and it even had one of the most important/coolest characters brought in early on, but it ended being really disappointing, because that character was never developed to a proper extent this season, and was utterly pathetic in face of conflict/felt like a poorly thought out interpretation.
On the plus side, this show is pretty funny, looks beautiful, has a ton of potential, a lot of suspense, entertaining romantic relationships/potential relationships, decent drama, and good fight scenes.
The Dig (2021)
Out of focus and boring
This movie started out well enough, with amazing performances by Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan, but unfortunately it gets bogged down by the introduction of various characters and unnecessary and excessive focus on their relationships.
The relationships from those new characters felt like they lacked proper character development, impact, and were completely irrelevant to the dig, and what was discovered.
Also, the discovery itself ended up being very disappointing, and felt like it didn't need a movie made about it at all.
It would have been better if this movie focused much more on the relationship of Edith, and Basil, with everyone else to the side, and the impact of the discovery on their lives rather than the focus being all over the place with several others and their boring relationships.
The School Nurse Files (2020)
Reminds me of Stephen Chow movies...
It's a wacky, funny, emotional and action packed wild ride... Well, at least the first episode was, after that it devolves into something much tamer, and focuses too much on small high-school issues rather than a big issue like the first episode did.
I didn't expect it to retain the same level of fun as the first episode did, just wanted something at least close to it, and sadly it wasn't.
Still, it was wholesome and funny many times afterwards so I'd say its a good show, although the ending was a mess and I felt like it needed more episodes to explain a bit more what was going on.