AJ_McAninch

Waste of an excellent cast and a story with potential as it becomes a tedious cooking show. Whoever thought jerking the show out of that potential and repetitively having the two cooking lessons become the focus is not thinking about general audience appeal. I'm hoping it improves so my time isn't wasted because I do love Korean drama, which this is not. It could have done so much better with shorter cooking competition and longer King and Traveler story. Indeed.

I love the actors, especially the lead. But loving them does not make up for the sudden plot gaffes, along with images like cats suddenly appearing, whose purposes are never explained. These events and images begin to drift throughout the second half of the film along with additionally unexplained character behaviors that ruined it for me. It was like they were so determined to finish that they gave up on developing. And that broke the mood and enjoyment. I am disappointed because I loved the first half.

There were only hints of a real storyline in the plot, and that's a double shame in the outcome because the actors are skilled, and the storyline had more potential. But when writer, director, and special effects completely take over the plot, it disappears into only a faint reminder there had been characters and story at the beginning. The result is only the incessant whipping up and around of machine guns that must have multiple cartridges and the constant braying of bullets and flying of blood until the while thing finally stops with a sad scene of regret over a daughter's missed birthday. And that story mattered far more.