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South Koreans are masters of every genre, they've been making the best movies on the planet for 20 years now. Every genre that is but comedy. Either that or their taste in humor is just different than hours and they prefer physical comedy and facial expressions three notches above what we'd consider too much even in theatre acting. Too bad, since the script isn't terrible and had potential.

Out of nothing Taylor Sheridan emerged as one of the best creators of our time; Sicario, Yellowstone,1883 and now Mayor of Kingstown. The recipe is a great story, amazing characters, brilliant writing and top notch casting but while 1883 the recipe is executed to perfection, Mayor of suffers from what feels like sloppy casting. The most painful example is Bunny, the leaders of Crips, played by a chubby, likeable actor that just doesn't work as a devious, scheming, heartless murderer, and it doesn't help that Bunny is written as well as some other characters, in this regard Sheridan should have taken a page out of The Wire's playbook.

A decent outing by the guy playing the villain but overall the script is just bad, it's not just the holes, the level of stupidity of the characters is probably insulting to the deaf of South Korea, their police force and society in general. The suspension of disbelief has its limits and this movie is crossing the line all the time.