Thursday, February 26, 2015

Secretly Greatly - Korean Movie Review



Genre: Action, Comedy-Drama

Main Cast: 
Kim Soo Hyun as Lieutenant Won Ryu-hwan / Bang Dong-gu
Park Ki-woong as Rhee Hae-rang / Kim Min-su
Lee Hyun-woo as Rhee Hae-jin

Release: 2013



I anticipated this movie to be a serious one.
I have no idea of how the story will go since I don’t read synopsis before watching… so I just assumed that it will be dramatic since Kim Soo Hyun is playing the lead role…so I prepared myself to a heroic melodramatic movie (based on the title).
Yeah… the start is serious…. Lieutenant Won Ryu-hwan (Kim Soo Hyun) is a top agent of North Korea sent so be a spy in South Korea….actually, there are others too who were sent to spy the South and to do missions coming from their leader to serve the purpose of their country. It was serious… then all of a sudden...the comedic scenes.

Lieutenant Won Ryu-hwan (Kim Soo Hyun) became Bang Dong-gu in his spy life… His spy character must be an idiot..He was a spy in South Korea  for over 2years already so he’s an idiot for 2years now…Hahahha so what do you expect?... I sat back and relaxed myself…I thought ahhhh… its not a serious movie… its actually comedy.
I laughed hard at some idiot parts coz its really crazy funny but yucky too specially the pooping part (yuck!)… but then…slowly the mood of this movie changed...it’s becoming dramatic with the mystery effects…since it’s a spy movie, I thought to myself… ow maybe it will be back to being funny again after some scenes… but I was wrong…the story become more and more sensitive… and heartbreaking and depressing.

How can I say it?...The story is not bad at all… actually it has great sense. It came to me that people like them… trained from young age to do something great in the future are like chess pieces… whatever they’re asked to do they must do or else they will be treated as traitors… and also the part where I realized that Dong-gu (Kim Soo Hyun) truly accomplished his dream to be great… He is great for those village people whom he lived with for 2 years…He’s actually an enemy of the country but he became attached with them and showed his concern to them…. This part is touching for me. And also the relationships of the 3 spies... willingness to give up their lives for one another….its friendship and loyalty…so its really touching…not to forget the longing of Won Ryu-hwan/Dong-gu to meet his mother…Its heartfelt.

The acting is not bad too… the transition of the characters played by Kim Soo Hyun, from an idiot to top agent back to idiot again back to being top agent..well he’s really a great actor…I can see the difference not just because of the hair but because of his acting.

So, Yeah… the movie is good… but… then… I didn’t like it. It’s like I’ve been to a fight after watching it… Its like my brain got tired from watching… its like eating a greatly cooked variety of dishes but mixed altogether and it became awfully tasting dish… you had tummy ache after eating… yeah, that’s my watching experience with this movie.

I give this movie 3 ramen since it has sensible story and because it was acted good but this is the kind of movie  I won't be watching again even if someone (purple shinobi) force me hahha… its hopeless…and depressing.

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