FUN FACT: The actress does her own stunts. So she ends up getting a lot of bruises at the end of filming that when she went to eat out at a restaurant with her manager, a worker there asked her if she was ok and would like her to call the police as they thought she was abused. 😅
i dont know if you saw it or not but at the end of the movie when they pan to the water you slowly see Min Hee come into frame as she dances underwater, showing that she is now at peace.
Wow, I just watched that movie on NETFLIX as well. I loved the indie-vibe, Korean, female version of a Jason Bourne action movie. You guys are awesome as always! I always enjoy your reactions to K-dramas and movies. Thanks again!
Lesson: don't mess with retired female John Wick. Btw that main villain really looks like a villain version of actual long hair John Wick who got his car stolen as well.
It's great to see the prettiest and most adorable reactor ever, Summer! Don't worry, Syntell, I'm sure women find you adorable too. Edit: Bombay Sapphire gin is da bomb!
This movie is so underrated, thanks for giving it a chance! This movie reminds me a lot of The Villainess, hopefully you can react to that someday too.
I really, really like Ballerina (2023). This type of film is more impactful when they keep the main protagonist enigmatic - you don’t know much about them in the first film. This fosters audience interest allowing the character to remain intriguing and for a sustainable franchise to built the where the audience are provided with vignettes of the character’s backstory to allow the franchise to grow over the trilogy or franchise in both character development and narrow growth so the franchise does not exhaust itself. Thus increasing audience anticipation, expectation and engagement for each new entry in the trilogy or series. Otherwise the franchise stagnates and falls back on tropes and visuals in a vain, ultimately, unsuccessful attempt to keep audience engagement. I think the film succeeds in this area. So, think of protagonist Jang Ok-ju (Jeon Jong-Seo) not only as the female John Wick, but also the female Dirty Harry or “man with no name” - like them we only know she is tough, resourceful, uncompromising and determined when the situation arises. She kicks ass and takes names.
if you could not realize then i would like to tell you that the guy kim jihoon and girl jeon joon seo were also in money heist korean remake that you reacted the first 6 episodes of with jaby she played tokyo and he played denver. its a reunion from teammates to enemies.
Kim Du-Han was a Korean mobster and later a politician. He fought the best Japanese gangsters, Karate and Judo fighters during the Japanese occupation. Because he was so successful at fighting the Japanese, he was a beacon of strength and hope for the Korean people and thus gained popularity to the point of having a political career in Korea after WW2. Some historians put Kim Du-Han among some of the best Korean independence activists/fighters that lived during the Japanese occupation.
Also, in Ballerina (2023) we also know Ok-ju has had nothing in the way of social interaction and relationships because of her occupation and the world she has been exposed to. Ok-Ju said that in a conversation with Choi Min-Hee (Park Yu-rim). We plainly see in their early interactions she is awkward and apprehensive and it’s only over the course of their relationship that she begins to open up. We already know from other action films featuring such protagonists that normal social interaction and relationships are prohibited as they carry the risk it compromises the job or gets you killed or emotionally hurt. So, why does the film need to elaborate on their relationship and cover the same, already worn ground?
I first saw this lead actress in "Burning" (Starring Glenn from Walking Dead) and wanted to see her do more. So seeing her in this film and "Korea: Heist" series made me happy she's getting roles.
I must confess that this movie is not one of my favorites, I thought it was relatively good, but it was not as intense and exciting as other Korean movies of that genre, most of the movie does not hook me, but it is more or less saved by the scenes (few ) of fight and action. I recommend some excellent South Korean action movies: The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil: a gangster is attacked and almost killed, by chance, by a serial killer. Now the gangster teams up with an upright police detective (in an unlikely and contradictory alliance) to hunt down the serial killer, while he continues murdering innocents. No Mercy (2019): a woman who in the past worked as an elite bodyguard, is released from prison after a few years of sentence, trying to rebuild her life. But then her younger sister, an intellectually disabled person, is kidnapped by a sex trafficking ring and she will fight against the clock to rescue her. Seoul Vibe: a kind of Korean version of Fast and Furious. At the end of the 1980s, when the military regime has just ended, a gang of juvenile delinquents who drive fast and powerful cars are blackmailed by a group of corrupt characters who work for the former South Korean Dictator, and must defeat them with audacity. Confidential Assignment: An officer in an elite North Korean unit suffers when his entire unit is killed (including his wife) in an assault carried out by another corrupt North Korean officer and his henchmen. Now he must pursue him in South Korea, teaming up with a fun and quirky detective from the South Korean police.
Korean movie recommendations 2004. Eraser in my head 2008.The Chaser 2010. I saw the devil 2013.Miracle in Cell No.7 2015. Assassination 2017. With God 2019. Extreme job
If you get the chance there is an interview with the Director , the music director and art director for the film they are all very young they did an excellent job putting the film together, yes the plot was quite basic was my only gripe, the acting was top notch female lead was outstanding. The camera work was outstanding and the music scores worked well with the movie. It has one of the best opening scenes to any movie I have ever watched
