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The Untamed chinese drama review
Dropped 15/50
The Untamed
10 people found this review helpful
by Philip Wong
Mar 19, 2020
15 of 50 episodes seen
Dropped 1
Overall 3.0
Story 6.0
Acting/Cast 3.0
Music 6.0
Rewatch Value 1.0
Tried to keep going but finally dropped it about a third of the way through. Didn't read the book or manhwa so this is a fresh take on this drama with no preconceptions one way or the other.

Acting - Young actors new at their craft.

Directing - Low budget and it showed. Sloppy editing/timing/acting where the director clearly cut corners and let it slide. Scenes that needed 5 seconds drawn out to 30 seconds or more. Rather than a buildup of tension, it dragged the scene down. This happened many times from even the earliest episodes - which does not bode well for the series.

Screenwriting - Too much filler, cliched conversation. Bickering - this was cute maybe the first half dozen times, then it became tedious. The characters were a bit superficial in development - especially the side characters. The usual character archetypes but it gave the sense of being 75% done and could have been refined in presentation. Very odd choices - action/dramatic scene interspersed with casual conversation or obvious exposition.

Storyboarding - A bit confusing and disjointed. Starting at the middle, then going back to the beginning makes a bit more sense if there was some storytelling device that needed this artifice. But the way it was done detracted rather than added to the story being told - why not just do it chronologically? And the decision to cut back from the confrontation scene (ep 4?) (and this is a LOOOONG back story) left me confused. A poor choice - maybe driven by inexperience.
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