ballazrus

one word.......BORING, this sequel is full of flaws and tedious and dialogues that runs in circles and the story just goes way off track compared to the first movie in this trilogy. not to mention how ridiculous the action goes. did they put a bunch of monkeys in front of the typewriters? this was a big waste of time and i should've seen it coming by watching matrix 2 which was already showing strong signs of FAILURE!

avoid at all costs!

first of all, do NOT be fooled with ignorant people relating this movie as a concept used by the Godfather trilogy, it does by no means borrow any ideas other than the fact that it happened to use IA2 as a prequel to IA1, there's a reason for it to do so although the movie failed to deliver out the reason to us.

How did it fail you may ask? well to start with, the performance was very poor by the two young actors depicting the young Tony Leung and Andy Lau's roles in IA, moreover these characters did not play any significant roles in the movie, they could've simply been omitted from the movie and the movie would've still made sense, in fact this prequel is here to describe more about the relationship between Inspector Wong and Sam (the triad boss in IA1), and of course also the fall of the triad family Ngai and the rise of Sam, and once again it's just an addon.

some more flaws would be how the role played by Tony Leung (Min in the movie) in IA1 is related to the Ngai family, and when Sam takes down Ngai, he still keeps Min in his gang, why would he do that? Min also asked to be reinstated in the police department and quit as an undercover once the case was over, but as we see he'll still be working as a mole in the triads, that doesnt make sense either (unless i missed something).

this could've been greater if they had just revised the screenplay and perhaps never included these young newb actors

as another user put it, " my first korean movie with zero expecations..." same goes for myself.

i had heard great reviews of the movie and i just had to get my hands on it too, took a great deal of effort but now that i just finished watching it...it was all worth it.

supposely based on a true story the movie evolves around a couple that met through an awkward situation and through that day the girl has been somewhat of a control freak, but her excuse as of behaving like that will soon be found out and the boy feels a responsibility as of how to cure her attitude.

as the movie goes along (with many hilarious scenes and quite cute as well) he develops feelings for her and it will have it ups and downs

i was seriously absorbed into this movie from the first seconds i laid eyes on it, it has a good narrative and it doesn't quite give away anything although it keeps implying a subtle message which will tie everything together and soon the sadness that may have fallen over you towards the end will be lightened up...watch it! you'll love the story!

i mean..if i can! then anybody else can