Agentul K2 (2016)

The best Korean Thriller

I absolutely love K2. From the action scenes to romance to politics. The opening is intense. Martial arts fighting scenes are awesome. Like Korean Version of John Wick! Ji Chang Wook is always the best , most handsome, best acting , so great at all stunts he did himself! What a talent. JCW character is adorable, he is brave and kind , tough and loving and giving, smart and cunning ! The FL is playing her role exceptionally well. Their chemistry is so sweet and just beautiful each moment they are together. The story is bitter and sweet , very interesting, despite many sad moments. Acting is top class across the board from main to supporting characters. Music is amazing. I love the music so much that I bought the full OST to add to my favourite play list. However, the best take away message from K2 is that this drama revealed the ugly truth of the dark force and deep state power that manipulates each and every single aspect of the government, not only in a particular country but perhaps across the world. If we pay attention we will find all lies and schemes they play to control people and nation , election is an example. Like it’s stated in the show ; they create wars , they sell weapons to both sides , they finance both sides of the war . It is a very brave and truthful message that K2 has successfully delivered. Well done and Thank you for your great work making this wonderful K2

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This drama is inevitably going to be compared to Healer. Similar plot setup with the same lead actor playing a character living outside the law, highly trained in the art of fighting and espionage, finding himself wrapped up in a massive conspiracy centered around a traumatized young woman, etc. etc. etc. There’s obviously a lot there to compare.

But the #1 complaint about this drama I heard the most from other viewers was about who the male lead chose to be with. By and large, everyone liked the idea of a passionate (albeit reckless) romance between Jae Ha and Yoo Jin and utterly disdained the pairing of Jae Ha and Anna. They loved how meaty and well-written Yoo Jin is (not to mention the strong chemistry she has with Jae Ha) while they hated Anna passionately, how innocent and helpless she was, how she wasn’t a ‘strong female lead’, how the relationship between Jae Ha and Anna was tame and boring, so on and so forth. The consensus seemed to be pretty unanimous.

But these complaints sounded like quibbles rather than drama-breaking issues to me, so I dismissed them. I don’t consider innocence a character flaw, I don’t automatically consider helplessness a character flaw, and I quite enjoy my sweet and innocent romances, thank you very much. On top of that, I wasn’t seeing any of these critiques going any further and really examining why Anna was supposedly such a poorly written and acted character, just that she didn’t fit everyone else’s personal preferences for a female lead.

I now have to admit that I was wrong to dismiss everyone's critiques so quickly

Having now seen a sizable portion of the drama, I understand the criticisms, and even have to agree with them somewhat. Yoo Jin is simply a much better character. She has personality presence, the actress does an amazing job making her interesting and intriguing and impossible to look away from, and yes, she has crazy good chemistry with Jae Ha.

But she’s also a terrible person, and there's no getting around that.

She's manipulative and selfish, willing to hurt others for what she wants; she uses Anna as a pawn, keeping her separated from her father basically her entire life, more than happy to make her life miserable and allow her to believe she's not loved or wanted, probably even willing to drive Anna to losing her mind. Yoo Jin is a b****. She may be a fascinating, intriguing, mesmerizing b****, but she's still a b****, and I don't stan that sort of romantic relationship.

Unfortunately, Anna is not a good character, and there's very little about her that will make most viewers root for her relationship with Jae Ha. It's not that she's so terribly written. She certainly could have been beefed up a bit more once you really got into the story, but a good actress would have been able to make the character work and even feel sympathetic and interesting to the audience. But, and I'm sorry to crush any biases here, Im Yoon Ah is a terrible actress. She has her moments, but every time she speaks in sentences longer than 2-3 words, it's a cringefest. And that's why everyone wanted Jae Ha with Yoo Jin. Not because Yoo Jin was worthy of his love, but because she's a better character.

For my part, I did still want Jae Ha and Anna together as I quite liked their innocent romance, and I like stories with knights in shining armor, and Jae Ha very much is one. But as you can see by the dropped tag in this review, their romance was obviously not enough to keep me watching, and that's due to the other major complaint people have had about this drama.

The story is all flash and no substance.

The first few episodes provide great set up with a clear trajectory. We’re treated to a number of impressive fight scenes early on that really wet your appetite for more. But that's where the compliments end. The fight scenes become fairly generic 6 or so episodes in, and it quickly becomes obvious that there's very little story to back them up. Yoo Jin's complex character motivations and Jae Ha's innate bad-a**ness and their obvious chemistry become the only things in the drama giving it reason or purpose. Even poor Anna's complicated and sad relationship with her father doesn't inspire you to feel much.

Ultimately, the drama set itself up for success before finding itself floundering in it's own story.

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It’s a bad sign when I’m laughing at the wrong things, like the leading lady running duck-footed in her nightie through the streets of Barcelona demented Wee Willie Winkie-style, past a score of oblivious Spaniards. And WHERE do they find all of those non-Korean actors? Is there a special bad acting school for foreigners that rents actors out for free? Ji Chang Wook’s character is a shade too similar to his role in the Healer to make me think that I’m watching something new and interesting. I might continue to watch if there were a chance that Mr. Healer 2.0 character and Evil Witch might end up falling for each other, which would at least be fun to see. But I assume that he and Wee Willie Winkie are destined for each other. My primary beef with most Korean dramas is that the romance is too conventional and predictable and I’m afraid that this drama will follow the same trajectory. I wonder whether better actors could have redeemed the show. But then I remember inane scenes such as Dancing With Ramen and realize that there is no excuse for this drama.

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I can not believe I watched like six whole episodes of this show. What could possibly happen in the next 10??? I'm sorry but Yoona is so miscast it's not even funny. It's kind of sad, like another actress in her role probably would've made her character a lot more compelling and interesting to watch and root for. Go Anna is a character who rarely speaks and we as the viewers are expected to pick up things about her and her personality through her movements, actions, and facial expressions but Yoona unfortunately isn't giving any of that so I really don't know what to make of Anna as a characters shes just. really flat and boring. Also Ji Changwook and Yoona really don't have any chemistry and Ji Changwook did try his best but I wasn't a big fan of his character. Both leads felt like shells of human beings rather than actual living people, and I know they were both traumatized but the writing behind their characters was so lifeless. There was also more chemistry between the female antagonist and Ji Changwook than Ji Changwook and Yoona. Which that being said, I did really enjoy the villain, but that's about it.

I do have to give this drama credit for giving me the funniest kdrama scene Ive ever seen. Nothing will ever beat Yoona dancing around with a pack of ramen and Ji Changwook trying his best to act like hes into it like HUH??? WHAT WAS THAT SCENE? It was hilarious though she really gave us nothing.

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Un drama qui n'a pas matché pour moi

J'ai été très surprise des avis vus sur internet sur ce drama, qui sont tous très positifs et élogieux. Alors que personnellement... je n'ai pas trouvé que le drama était un bon drama. Alors attention je ne dis pas qu'il était mauvais non plus, mais il y a tellement de choses qui ne fonctionnaient pas pour moi que je ne peux pas le qualifier en drama que j'ai apprécié.

J'ai même par moment, trouvé que c'était très difficile à regarder, et ai même pensé à l'arrêter (chose que je ne fais quasiment jamais).

Alors pourquoi n'ai-je pas aimé ce drama ?

Tout d'abord, je trouve la course politique de ce drama illogique et tellement impossible que ça m'a décroché de l'histoire. Ce drama est rempli de scènes d'actions, qui sont sincèrement très bien réussies et qui donnent un rythme intéressant. Mais c'est si illogique... Les politiciens organisent littéralement des attentats pour se tuer les uns entre les autres, créent des fusillades à tout bout de champ et ça ne pose de problème à personne ? La partie réalisme a été manquée pour moi pour cette raison et ça m'a beaucoup dérangé.

D'autre part, j'y reviendrais plus tard mais les personnages... À part Choi Yoo Jin, aucun personnage n'a su gagner mon coeur ni ne sont développés et j'expliquerai pourquoi en détaillant les personnages principaux. Même les personnages secondaires, supposés apporter plus de légèreté et une part d'humour pour moi, n'ont pas marché. Je n'ai pas apprécié les acteurs/rôles secondaires que l'on voit régulièrement (Kim Gab Soo dans le rôle de Park Kwan Soo, Lee Ye Eun dans le rôle de Mi Ran ou encore Lee Jae Woo dans le rôle de Lee Sung Gyu).

Et surtout le plus gros problème pour moi est la romance. À mon sens elle n'a aucunement sa place dans ce drama. Et quand je dis aucune c'est... Vraiment aucune. Je n'ai pas trouvé d'alchimie particulière entre Wookie et Yoona d'une part, mais de plus j'ai trouvé que la romance ne collait pas au personnage principal qui n'a aucune raison de base de tomber amoureuse de Anna. Vraiment... Il tombe amoureux en un claquement de doigt et passe de mercenaire à canard en deux scènes. Aucune logique, tout comme certaines scènes de toute façon comme la scène des ramens ou la scène du premier bisou 😫.

Kim Je Ha (Ji Chang Wook)

Kim Je Ha est un ancien soldat et mercenaire, activement recherché suite à son passé. Et son passé... On ne le connait pas. Genre vraiment, on ne connait ni son vrai nom, ni son passé avant l'armée, rien... Le personnage, n'est pas développé. Et pourtant, c'est le personnage principal !

Alors au moins, on a le droit à beaucoup de scènes d'actions où on peut à la fois profiter de la jolie vue que nous accorde Wookie, et où l'on peut découvrir ses talents dans des scènes vraiment bien chorégraphiées, mais au-delà de cela, le personnage est un peu plat.

Son association avec Choi Yoo Jin est basée sur un ennemi commun : Park Kwan Soo, candidat aux présidentielles et cible de la vengeance souhaitée de Kim Je Ha. Je ne vous dirais pas pourquoi, car cela serait spoiler, mais autant vous dire que la raison de son souhait de vengeance est la seule partie de son passé que nous connaissons, et ça n'en dévoile pourtant pas tant que cela.

De plus, je trouve des incohérences dans le caractère du personnage. Prêt à tuer n'importe qui sur son passage lorsqu'il se bat, il tombe amoureux en un claquement de doigt et devient un vrai canard sans aucune personnalité... Très peu pour moi.

Comme quoi, Wookie ne peut pas tout sauver juste en étant lui, car pour le coup c'est le personnage est mal écrit.
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Go Anna (Yoona)

Go Anna est la fille du politicien Jang Se Joon et de la célébrité Uhm Hye Rin, retrouvée morte chez elle il y a plus de dix ans de cela. Depuis la mort de sa mère, Anna s'est retrouvée enfermée par les soins de Choi Yoo Jin, car elle représentait une force de manipulation envers son mari.

Ce personnage est le pire défaut du drama selon moi. Rien ne va ! Pendant les sept premiers épisodes, à chaque fois que Anna est à l'écran, c'est pour pleurer. Elle parle un peu pendant le premier épisode, puis il faut attendre plusieurs épisodes avant qu'elle ne prononce à nouveau plus de deux mots ! Et une fois qu'elle est lancée et qu'elle cesse de pleurer, ce n'est que pour quelques épisodes et pour révéler une personnalité enfantine, une grande naïveté et un manque de charisme.

Alors oui vous aurez compris, j'ai détesté ce personnage. Je l'avoue, de base je ne suis pas du tout une fan de l'actrice... Mais pour le coup je ne suis pas sure que ça soit de sa faute si je n'aime pas son personnage, mais tout simplement le personnage lui-même qui est mal écrit et ne sert à rien.

Vraiment pour moi, ce personnage n'a fait que 3 choses pendant le drama : pleurer, parler de sa mère, se faire enlever.

Choi Yoo Jin (Song Yoon Ah)

Le personnage de Choi Yoo Jin est pour moi le personnage qui sauve le drama. On retrouve une femme forte avec de réelles ambitions et qui se donne les moyens pour réussir. Choi Yoo Jin est depuis toute jeune ancré dans un monde de politique et de gestion d'entreprise où elle excelle. Si les conflits familiaux sont de base très présents dans sa vie, ils prennent encore une nouvelle tournure à la mort de son père, où malgré tout le mérite qu'elle avait, ce n'est pas elle mais son demi-frère qui hérite du groupe JB.

Ce personnage est selon moi, incroyable et l'actrice a fait un travail remarquable à l'interpréter ! On ressent tellement de choses en suivant ce personnage, on ressent la souffrance qu'elle a ressentie, la jalousie qu'elle peut avoir, son ambition sans faille, mais aussi ses fragilités, ses faiblesses, ses rêves. C'est un personnage que j'aurai aimé voir encore plus et qui a su gagner mon coeur.

Un personnage complexe que j'ai adoré, mon préféré du drama !

Jang Se Joon (Jo Sung Ha)

Vous l'aurez compris Jang Se Joon est donc le père d'Anna et le mari de Choi Yoo Jin. Politicien visant le poste de Président, il se fait manipuler depuis des années par sa femme à qui il doit une majeure partie de sa popularité. Mari dont l'adultère est l'une des activités principales, il est difficile à cerner, et aujourd'hui encore je ne sais pas si j'apprécie ce personnage ou non.

Comme les autres personnages, on ne sait pas grand chose de son background à part son histoire passée avec la mère d'Anna, et encore ça reste très bref et il faut attendre les derniers épisodes avant d'en apprendre plus.

Je pense que c'est un personnage plus complexe qu'il n'y parait mais qui semble retourner sa veste à chaque épisode, d'où la difficulté pour moi à le cerner.

DES PLUS ET DES MOINS ?

Malgré les points négatifs que j'ai cité, je comprend que certaines personnes apprécie ce drama. Les scènes d'actions sont pour la majorité très réussies et donnent résultat très rythmé qui donne envie de s'y plonger.

Autre point très positif pour moi, il s'agit de la musique du drama. Les différentes musiques sont très prenantes et ajoutent vraiment un charme. Dès qu'une certaine musique on sait quel type de scène va se produire, et personnellement ça a très bien marché pour moi !

En revanche comme je le disais, le gros point négatif est le manque d'approfondissement des personnages. Et l'un des points forts, soit le rythme comme je le disais, peut également devenir un point faible car au milieu du drama, ces scènes d'actions se font plus rares (pour reprendre à la fin ne vous inquiétez pas), et on en vient à trouver le drama plus lent.

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Worst thing I’ve ever watched in my life

(SPOILERS. AND RANT AHEAD)

This show is forcing us to sympathise with a mistress who knowingly fucked and dated a high-profile married man, and their secret daughter who grew up despising said married man’s legal wife. The show is also forcing us to hate and see the villain in an ambitious woman who’s just trying to survive day by day being married to a fucking lecher who thinks with his dick, a disgusting old pervert who fucked every single young woman within a 2 meter radius, all while regretting her past choices that led her into marrying this man.

It’s fucking horrible. Stopped watching midway thru ep 12 bc I can’t fucking stand the world treating Anna like the second coming of Christ.

I’m gonna talk about the good parts first. Choi Yoojin is a decent character with a solid backstory and interesting personality. I understood her motivations behind what she does.

That’s it; that’s the only redeeming part of the story. Hence the 2 rating on the acting part instead of 1.

The rest is horseshit.

Anna is the most annoying FL in any kdrama I’ve ever seen in my entire life. She doesn’t have agency, doesn’t have a personality, exists only to cry her lungs out and make me suffer. Good lord I fucking despise her. She doesn’t have any single lovable trait. She’s a plain whiny bitch with zero intelligence and a knack of getting into trouble. Like, cmon girl, your mom was a literal MISTRESS, she fucked your dad and dated him fully knowing that he was a married man, and you still have the nerve to worship her to kingdom come??? Why do you despise Choi Yoojin but not your own dad?? Your own fucking dad was the one who cheated on his wife with another woman, and ended up having a kid with that woman through an illicit affair, oh right, YOU are that kid, and YOUR MOM was the mistress. For fuck’s sake I’m sick of her acting all high and mighty, believing her mom deserved everything in the world including her dad and getting batshit crazy over her dad’s legal wife (Choi Yoojin) despising her husband’s mistress. Like, no. Instead of Choi Yoojin, go hate on your dad. Your dad’s a fucking asshole and deserve to die. Get the fuck outta here.

The writers made Jeha and Anna the protagonists, and Choi Yoojin the villain. But no. With how poorly and horribly written this shitshow of a kdrama was, Choi Yoojin became the sole protagonist. Her story touched me in the ways Anna ‘s can’t ever possibly compare. The writers failed so horribly they made me DESPISE Anna instead. I repeat, Anna has no single likeable trait: she’s full of rage and contempt, her entire existence she wasted on despising Choi Yoojin and trying to get revenge on her, and being the stupidest little shit on the planet.

Weirdest romance ever between Anna and Jeha, absolutely zero buildup, zero chemistry, zero feelings. It makes zero sense. I cringe at every second of their romance on screen. It personally hurt my eyes and my brain. I feel like I lost 30% of my intelligence seeing them with each other. Laziest fucking writing ever.

Choi Yoojin’s husband. Idk that son of a bitch’s name. He’s a fucking disgusting human being. As i stated before, a lecher, an old pervert, a disgusting piece of shit who tricked Yoojin into marrying him just so he could take her money to become a politician, only to end up cheating on her left and right sticking his dick in anything that moves. Also, that piece of shit had a kid with his mistress, and proceeded to mock his wife’s apparent infertility. But no, the writers are trying to make us sympathise with him only because it seems like he loves his poor little daughter Anna very much. Yeah, no, fuck that, he and Anna can both get the fuck out and die.

The dialogues in this drama are fucking boring and take AGES to finish with barely any substance on it. Fight scenes are corny as hell — definitely made very very VERY long and dramatic, overcompensating for the lack of plot. The characters make very questionable choices, and it’s soooooo unrealistic like come the fuck on. Cba to list all of them but believe me when I say it’s fucking horrible.

Choi Yoojin died in this drama, I saw the comments even tho i dropped this drama before i could get to that scene. Fuck that shit right? How is she the villain when Anna is disgusting enough to be one?

In other words, fuck this drama. Fuck Yoojin’s husband in particular, worst character. Fuck Anna for being a gross bitch. Fuck Anna’s mom for being an entitled bitch even tho she’s just a fucking mistress lmao. Fuck the general public for worshipping Anna’s ass for practically.......NOTHING. Idk maybe fuck Jeha too for having a humongous saviour complex which makes him only able to get attracted to women who need him, women who must be protected at all costs. Choi Yoojin is the only character that matters, and the writers killed her off. Fuck that. Choi Yoojin supremacy.

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I really was looking forward to this drama, but I got bored of it. The story line was just not cutting it for me, but personally the acting wasn’t good for me either. I know Yoona is well beloved, but her acting made me not want to watch the show anymore and the plot got boring. I just didn’t enjoy it. In the beginning it was really interesting, but as I kept watching it just wasn’t living up to what I was expecting. I only watched the drama because of Ji Chang Wook, and I’m sad that I did not like this drama. I could just not sit through anymore episodes to finish it.

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Beautiful music and action sequences.

Action packed. The fight sequences are so solid and breath taking. They are long but still I invest in them because it's truly some beautiful fight choreography. Song Yoon Ah in my humble opinion outshines all of the actors— not because they’re not amazing themselves but she’s incredible. The emotions that she is able to portray on screen are complex and feel real. I plan on watching everything that she’s in. The music is quality and I find myself listening to the The Witch and The Girl while studying or playing games. If you enjoy intense action, knight in shining armor like protag, relatable antagonist, and complex relationships then this drama is worth checking out.

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Great action. Disappointing romance. Disappointing editing and story

I watched this show because I just finished healer and I wanted to watch Ji Chang-wook in another action romance. But I was disappointed with the show because the story was not told well.The motivations of ja he was not convincing or made much sense. The relationship between ja he and Anna didn't make sense. Why did they fall for each other. Anna is a traumatized girl who has lived in isolation for most of her life. She was child like and mentally unstable. I could understand having a protective feeling toward her, but to fall in love, I don't agree.I thought there was a stronger pull between ja he and yoo jinThe best character was yoo jin. The action scenes are great. The acting of ja he and yoo jin was good as well as others. The acting was good but the story was choppy. Plus to many actors laughed too much for no reason. The music tried to be too dramatic.I couldn't finish it

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I did not like this story, I like k-dramas cos you can see the main characters fall in love with each other while they are getting to know each other, but here he falls in love with her cos she dances to ramen? really??
His background story is really good, although muslim woman don't take their hijab to kiss a guy, it would have been more realistic if at least she only unveiled her mouth... anyways, his story and his acting is really good.
Her background story is sooo plain and boring, and her acting sucks. Btw when and how did she learn to cook? and how does she know about ramen? is not a common meal in Spain, where she supposedly lived locked up in a convent...
The stepmother is a bitch at the same time you are suppose to relate to her... how can you? she is the main bitch! not a good story line there either.
So disappointed with this drama, all the actions parts are really good, but the whole plot has mayor issues, he is defending someone that kidnapped a girl, at the same time he is trying to kill the person who murder his girlfriend, it's never really clear who's the good and the bad guy...
Don't recommend it at all.

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This drama is honestly so so good. I dig these kind of action dramas so I might be quite biased, but I read through the other reviews before posting mines so I think this is pretty accurate.

Story- 8/10 This drama started off so good and promising. I was hooked and the story was so good. This drama is a mix between romance, politics and revenge. Although I do have to admit, they didn't blend well together. It felt like there were 3 different settings in the same story. It didn't blend as well as the genres in DOTS blended. Anyways, as the drama started to progress around ep 12 or so I felt like the story was getting repetitive, none of my questions were answered and K2 was just a confusing mess at certain times. I completely agree with one of the reviews in the episode aspect---- after I finished an episode I would only find one thing that was new... the rest of the hour and 15 mins was .... idk... during the episode though I'm hooked and like oh yea!! This is so good but afterwards nothing really happened if I reflected on it lol. Nonetheless it's a pretty good story and well written. Not the strongest part of K2 though. Also, the ending for the villains were not good enough... I was not satisfied. After all that they did that's all they get???????? Korean dramas really need to step up their ending game. I know I say this in every review but oh my goodness I have yet to watch a kdramas w a satisfying ending.

Acting/cast: 10/10 THE REASON I FINISHED K2 is the cast! The cast is quite strong besides Yoona, I expected her to act badly but I was surprised. Her acting as Anna is very good compared to her previous performances---- she has improved a lot and fits the role well. But ofc compared to the excellent actresses she's quite average. Nothing special. I am an sone btw. Anyways, Chang wook was amazing as always. Ok and now *drumroll please* SONG YOON AH. Oh. My. Gosh. She is the best Korean actress I've ever watched! Usually, Korean actresses have a tendency to act in similar ways to each other but she acted in her own way and her portrayal as Choi yoo Jin was excellent. Also, for her age she's STUNNING. She's a beauty and a rare talent. Love her. Sung Won was awesome at acting too. Loved his portrayal. His smirks made me want to kick him off the face of this planet.

Music: 10/10 search up K2 ost on YouTube. Enjoy. You're welcome.

Rewatch: 3/10 I don't rewatch dramas I just finished.

Overall: 9/10 I recommend. Great great great acting!

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