This could have been so much better if they didn't try so hard to be funny.

The comedy elements of the show don't work 80% of the time. I think this show would have been much better if they just focused on the serious elements. I found myself about halfway through skipping through the 'funny' parts. I just wanted to get to the action and the scenes that drove the story forward because these were so well done. Chang-young is not funny at all. Like not at all. Not even a little bit. The jokey torture scenes by the tenants don't work, the funny intelligence agent obsessed with Vincenzo doesn't work because it makes him come off as incompetent. And whenever they went for a blockbuster finish with slow motion and over-the-top music it came off as way too cheesy.

My favorite scene is the first time Myung hee gets threatened in the laundromat it's so real and so effective. Great directing, acting, and great momentum is built. Whenever they switched to the jokes they lost momentum built in these serious powerful scenes so I would be at the edge of my seat one moment and rolling my eyes hitting fast forward the next which made for unbalanced viewing. This drama had such high potential but it was ruined by an attempt to also be a comedy, it should have just been a drama about the gangster life of different members of society.

Song Joong-ki/ Vincenzo is the only reason I watched until the end. He is the only lead whose acting feels natural but he is backed into a corner by the terrible writing and story progression. Han Seo and Seung-hyuk were the only other believable characters in this mess.