Completed
lexin_chang
1 people found this review helpful
Aug 2, 2023
Completed 0
Overall 7.5
Story 7.0
Acting/Cast 8.0
Music 8.0
Rewatch Value 5.0

Action-packed, spy thriller

Phantom is a fun watch. It is riddled with plotholes. As soon as we walked out of the theatre, we started poking and could identify a lot of ridiculous conceits. In fact, the whole concept of keeping 5 people in a giant hotel in order to figure out which of them might be a spy is in itself rather silly, so you know what you’re getting into if you read the synopsis and go see it… still, while you’re watching, the movie keeps you entertained. The production and cinematography were good. The actresses in particular shone. The action scenes packed a punch, and allowed for many bad ass moments.

Is it a great movie? No. Is it still fun and worth the watch? Yes, if you like over-the-top action featuring cool heroines!

Read More

Was this review helpful to you?
Completed
Anthojay
2 people found this review helpful
Feb 25, 2023
Completed 0
Overall 7.0
Story 5.5
Acting/Cast 8.0
Music 9.0
Rewatch Value 5.5

Most of its plot revolves around a closed setting

The movie seems to have a large scale resistance movement theme but actually most of its plot revolves around the interrogation of five suspects in a remote torture area at a seaside cliff, only until the ending the story expands into something bigger, but still the closing sequence is quite unsatisfying because at the end someone else becomes the alternate villain which is kinda weird for this kind of movie. Despite that, the cinematography and soundtrack is excellent enough to give it a somewhat artistic finish.
Was this review helpful to you?
Completed
XingBack
0 people found this review helpful
Aug 5, 2024
Completed 0
Overall 8.0
Story 7.0
Acting/Cast 9.0
Music 6.0
Rewatch Value 1.0
This review may contain spoilers
failed mom watch, she left after the first five mins and I put on another hani movie which she also didn’t like but we’ll see tomorrow
Got to say tho lee hani has lost a lot of weight I mean it’s her preference if not just for the role but she looks frail with dainty shoulders

The leading ladies were a 1000/10
If we divide this by 3 parts, the first part was a boring table talk that took too long, the second part for annoying when a certain something happened but the last part was great it made me tear up
I high key loved the women tho like ?????? and sure some of their fight scenes especially one on one didn’t seem believable with their tiny frame but they were still hot?‍? the rating is just for them and the third part

Sadom going back didn’t make sense cuz they’d have left faster if she just went up , instead they talked about her name and “come up, no go save yourself”
So her capture was meh and the two mls fighting well I guess it was greed and the need to make the women the heroes so I won’t complain too much
The gathering at the end should’ve been the main event, like they had an among us chat for the first part and a bigger group to sus in the last part so more deaths would’ve made it more heartbreaking

Read More

Was this review helpful to you?
Phantom (2023) poster

Details

Statistics

  • Score: 7.6 (scored by 502 users)
  • Ranked: #4639
  • Popularity: #5028
  • Watchers: 2,552

Top Contributors

38 edits
36 edits
29 edits
14 edits

Popular Lists

Related lists from users
MY PLAN TO WATCH (2020-2024)
834 titles 34 loves 1
Korean Historical Films
203 titles 10 loves 1
LGBTQ Lesbian / GL (Korean)
101 titles 22 loves

Recently Watched By