not great, but i don't regret watching.

i had first watched this movie because a) song joong ki was in it and b) it was on the headline of my netflix homepage. i was intrigued by the plot about 30 minutes in, however i was a bit disappointed at the end. i expected a better ending. however the production/CGI was spectacular, let me say. this might be a bit farfetched, however i felt like i was in space. it was so so amazing, the CGI was. i maybe was paying attention to the storyline, but i do wish james sullivan had a deeper reason for essentially planning to kill over 1B people on Earth. the reason, if i remember correctly, was a bit..one dimensional?

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Wow...what a movie.

Now, before I start, I just want to say that this review is subjective. It is not a disincentive for you to not watch this movie.
Real, is one hell of a movie.
Real, in my mind, 1st watch, was about--sex, drugs, gambling, mob, Kim Soo Hyun. The amount of unrealistic bed scenes in here was too much. But I understand why it was added for some of them.
Real is confusing for me. Now after I was done watching the movie, I read some of the reviews listed underneath here. It makes sense now why Real was so confusing.
If you're looking for a movie that has a easy-to-grasp plot, this isn't it.
The plot is here, unlike what other said. It's just difficult to find. The writer/director decided to create this movie in a difficult way, therefore only few know what the plotline is.
That's why I wasn't one of them.
I couldn't grasp the plot until, what, maybe 10 minutes left of the movie? I had only just known, then, that Siesta was a drug used to get high. The antagonist plot, I didn't get at all. But, once again, if you pay attention to the movie (which I clearly didn't enough), you will understand the movie at a better level.
The acting--Kim Soo Hyun continues to impress me. He portrays the two characters so differently--without changing their physical appearance. The way the two talk, smack their gum in their mouth, their eyes and how they act on their own, their reactions to events--they are different. And that's something that I was amazed by. Jang Tae Young was acted greatly by him.

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Life's Greatest Equalizer: Death

Will Love in Spring is a show that is quite slow-paced in terms of its romance and other aspects of it, however many great life lessons and inspiring quotes can be pulled from the dialogue.

While the FL can be annoying and many may think that she almost "weighed" the ML too much, I believe that both had their baggage, which is why this show is more of a modern, realistic portrayal of a romantic relationship.

Throughout the show, with the ML's job being an embalmer, death is a main topic that constantly revolves around. People around the main leads (don't want to spoil!) unfortunately pass away, and this leads to the ML, FL as well as his grandmother thinking about what humans should see in death, and why many avoid the topic. I took so many lessons and additional thoughts from the show, and I encourage the viewers to watch this show with an open mind. Death isn't a topic that is addressed in dramas, so I'm glad that the directors and scriptwriters of this show decided to step into undiscovered territory and tackle such as heavy topic and even go further into thinking about why humans tend to avoid the topic via methods like a DNR, or a will.

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