About City Hunter

What i don't like about this drama?
What is there not to like about this drama?
This year i've written a few reviews and i feel like i had the same thought about each show i commented here. Well, it is true things like Secret Garden or 49 Days were seriously good for different reasons, but pretending City Hunter can't compare would be an unfair lie. So excuse me while i am repetitive.


City Hunter is perfect from every single point of view.
The intricate plot, the unfaltering suspence, the many characters in the round, the consistency, the emotions, the message and the relevance to nowadays.


It often happens to see great dramas losing points as the end approaches because secondary characters are left behind or lose importance for no reason, as if writers and producers put them there to raise the numbers and gave them some action to justify their presence, but forgot about them because there wasn't really the need for them to be there.
This doesn't happen in City Hunter. Everyone is there for a specific cause, whether that's made clear from the start or later in the game. Nobody fades away either.
There is no stereotype in their personality. Nobody's completely good or evil, not even Jin Pyo who in the end leaves us a tiny, easily unnoticed sparkle of what is a long buried good heart. 
Yun Sung is against his father's bloody plan but gives in to personal involvement, just like Bae Sik Joong has a secret and Young Joo's choice between law and family isn't as easy as his ethics would want it to be.
Everyone has flaws and ghosts. This makes everything more real.


When i mention 'a relevance to nowadays' i mean it in a way that might me too personal for you to understand. But i live in a country where politicians are politicians for the sake of the money they get. I am absolutely positive nobody down in Rome is there because of a honest steady care toward this country.
God knows how much we could use a City Hunter here. And i know, luckily or not, we are not the only ones.


But apart from this digression, the emotions every single second delivers are as coherent as the characters of the story.
It's a constant growth, that breaks in several climaxes and makes you expect to stop and withdraw, but it just keeps increasing until you literally, phisically feel stuffed.
That's what i felt, at least.


And then what's left to say? Lee Min Ho was terrific. I love the completeness of this adjective.
The chemistry between Min Ho and Min Young was palpable...Well, no wonder. They are real. But i have to say there was a good complicity between other couples, as well: Yun Sung and Young Joo, Young Joo and Sae Hee, Na Na and Sae Hee, Yun Sung and Ahjussi (no point in calling him differently).
I've heard better soundtracks than this one, but the melodies were just so motivating.


Do you want one negative point? The last two minutes. Just because after the solidity of the previous 20 episodes and the unbearableness of the close, i was expecting a denouement, an epilogue that matched. While i found the last three scenes a bit bland. I wouldn't say the ending is not satisfying though. Just too calm.


That's it. It's a very technical review, this one. Maybe because i couldn't really see myself in anyone and of course in the events either, therefore i couldn't feel much more than simple incomparable tension.
But this is just another amazing detail of the product, i guess: it's distant, yet emotionally filling.


Though i feel the need to dedicate myself to something lighter for a while now, i know i miss it already. 


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