If you want to watch a historical drama with many funny moments and no tragedy then this is a good watch. I liked the dialogues in this movie, worth reflecting on.
Not many romantic scenes, but enough to keep you happy.
The whole cast did a great job! Lee Seungi was perfect as usual <3
I liked the interaction between Lee Seungi & the other astrologer lol it was hilarious
I especially liked the progress of the story, was well balanced. Even though I have watched many historical dramas I could enjoy it because of its interesting storyline.
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Simple romantic movie set in historical times
There's really nothing outstanding on this movie but the plot is pretty straightforward. I am impressed that they were able to compress a decent story in a 2-hour movie specially that this is set on a historical period. Most movies that I watched set on historical drama either have an incomplete story or doesn't makes sense at all. At least this one is pretty reasonable. Of course, political/power play is a part that won't be left out on historical period shows. This one also have that but not as heavy as most historical period movies/dramas.The casts has a lot of familiar faces specially handsome faces but there were just characters that I don't really know the purpose like MinHo (don't get me wrong I love to see his face on the screen it's just that his character is unnecessary but that's just my opinion.) The acting for the rest were just so-so, not too bad to criticize but not too good to commend as well.
There's nothing much I can say about the OSTs as I don't really remember if there's any. It was a worthwhile watch but I don't really re-watch movies specially those set in historical periods. If you just want a short historical romance story this is a feel good one that you can definitely choose.
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Somewhat uneven watch
I'll start by saying that historical dramas are not my favorite genre, so ratings for these, for me, tend to be lower. That being said, I think one of the problems I had with this movie was that it was uneven. At the beginning it acted like it wanted to be a comedy, then the writers gave that up midway through. It moved along rather quickly, since it was a movie rather than a serial drama, and I was thankful for that. I have to be totally enthralled with a story to put up with all the filler that the dramas include, and this was far from an enthralling story.The acting was okay, I don't know if it was the actors or the script that didn't draw me in. There was something that kept me from being involved in the story. I found myself look at the time a lot, and that's never a good sign. I also wasn't "feeling" the romance at all. The chemistry was lacking, as well as the fact that the romance was definitely on the back burner compared to the palace intrigues.
I did, however, REALLY appreciate the way they wrote the king. Finally, a king that makes some of his own decisions, rather than being led by his untrustworthy cabinet.
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This review may contain spoilers
Just my quick overall thoughts before I dive deeper about the movie in the spoilers down below. It's a fun and visual stunning movie with a few moments that gives me laugh. For those looking for movie that is causal and historical I would suggest to give this a watch.! Spoiler part
Story: the first 20 minutes I find it slow pace and quite hard to get into the movie. It's very messy trying to balance romance, comedy and palace politics. There are so many things in the movie that didn't make sense.
As a romantic movie, cliché. The two main characters keep running into each other, when they meet I knew they are going to be love but that's the biggest problem, the princess met Seo for a few days and they are so deep in love with each other that she is willing to give up her status as a princess?
Palace politics, the writing is very weak, important decisions such as the princess's marriage are made in the court by fortune telling? It start off with a problem with drought, the people and government officials believe that the princess's marriage will solve the problem, I know people at that time period are superstitious but that makes no sense at all. Throughout the movie, the problem of drought is being brought up a lot of times but in the movie I don't see that, it keep showing luscious green trees and grass. My country has been through drought one time, you will see the grass withered over the country has turn yellow, discolored leaves among the green ones on trees. Overall, I have a feeling that this story would work better as a drama to develop each characters.
Acting: I know some of the casts in this movie, I have watched other movie and drama they are in and seen their talented acting performances from other shows. However I think the problem is the script, there is not a lot of focus on the characters thus their performance are very one-note, emotional scenes I don't feel it in their performance.
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nothing new under the sky
I didn't expect it to be a movie, thought it was a drama. relieved it was just a movie, would have been so disappointed.that's just another palace intrigue. the story isn't as unique as I thought while reading the synopsis. I think they tried to tell a story to complex for the movie duration. so it ends up with a lack of depth. I would have loved being told about how these matchmakers learned how to do their work.
I didn't like the actors. there is just something odd about how all the movie was bring together.
this is just bland, and coarse. I don't recommend.
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