A secret project in Korea is exposed to the US so the project gets scrapped and the sample is to be handed over when a delivery accident occurs. Director Choe tries to hide the sample as Paul searches, but they end up at the same place as Jagyeong and Lim Sang. Who will seize the sample in the end?
暴君, الطاغية - الفيروس الخارق
Park Hoon-jung comes back with his unhinged short serial. Yes, this is a part of The Witch universe and let's be fair to call this a spin-off: where the organization and some questions about where the source of powers are coming from were introduced and answered. I personally agree that why 4-episodes short when you can merged them into full-length feature, but fuck it, we binged watch them anyway. The concept and formula, if you are familiar with the director's works and The Witch films, is still there. I also liked how the director used the style of storytelling like the way he used it in Part 1 – The Subversion: a slow-burn but he delivers more action set pieces…
halfway through i realized shit's literally so bad it's giving the witch: part 2. the other one (2022) bad. hours later finding out that it's actually the spinoff and is in the same universe as the witch successfully ruined me, they only got worse.
“The Tyrant” was originally planned to release as a movie, hence acquired by Disney+ and became a 4-episode series.
It shares same worldview of his previous work “The Witch”. I guess Ja Gyeong (starring Jo Yoon Su) might be someone escaped from the programme Ja Yoon (starring Kim Da Mi) escaped in “The Witch: Part 1. The Subversion”.
In the post-credit scene, we can see young Ja Gyeong, whom looks pretty much same as how young Ja Yoon showed up in “The Witch: Part 1. The Subversion”. (By the way I’m so happy to see the cameo of Lee Sung Min!)
Worldview of the story is interesting, however, the editing and storytelling are bit messy, somehow detached. I love how…
Q: Hey Siri, where tf is Tyrant?
A: Thailand is bordered to the northwest by Myanmar, to the northeast and east by Laos, to the southeast by Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the southwest by the Andaman Sea; it also shares maritime borders with Vietnam to the southeast and Indonesia and India to the southwest.
Creo que es chulo verla sin saber que vas a ver, como ha sido mi caso, porque te intriga ver cómo no te enteras de nada al principio y como te va enganchado y vas encajando las piezas.
Es ist Seoultember 2024 und wir schauen wieder fleißig Filme und Serien aus Südkorea. No. 7: The Tyrant
Die Miniserie The Tyrant ist ein Spin-off zu den beiden The Witch Filmen von Park Hoon-jung. Sind die ersten zwei Folgen noch ziemlich ruhig mit lediglich kurzen Actionsequenzen, steigert sich die Action bis zum wuchtigen Finale. Die Handlung wirkt anfangs etwas unfokussiert und wirr aber fängt sich wieder. Allerdings gibt es wenig Neues zum World Building. Insgesamt hatte ich mit den vier Folgen Spaß aber The Tyrant hätte auch als Film funktioniert und ist im Vergleich zu anderen südkoreanischen Produktionen ziemlich schematisch.
a classic park hoon-jung tale, from the heavily stylised atmosphere in every one of his frames (a lot of foggy woods and the known desolate landscapes tinged in pale blues and beiges) contrasting with the physical display of hyper-violence in tight action choreographies that are known from his projects.
following the story of a a secret NIS project about to blow up in everyone’s faces (literally), a chase expands over four episodes to tell this somehow movie-mini-series-length thriller that merges the witch’s supernatural lab projects a la x-man with the usual park gangster flick gang rivalries supplanted into government officials and all of their potential evil on the world stage. while the plot becomes fickle in the middle and not everything…
sometimes you just need to watch hot people smoke cigarettes and kill each other
“Life never goes according to plan. No one can predict what life will bring. And you never know where life will take you. Don’t be discouraged if things don’t go your way. That’s just how it is”
