Just my quick overall thoughts before I dive deeper about the movie in the spoilers down below. It's a fun and visual stunning movie with a few moments that gives me laugh. For those looking for movie that is causal and historical I would suggest to give this a watch.







! Spoiler part

Story: the first 20 minutes I find it slow pace and quite hard to get into the movie. It's very messy trying to balance romance, comedy and palace politics. There are so many things in the movie that didn't make sense.

As a romantic movie, cliché. The two main characters keep running into each other, when they meet I knew they are going to be love but that's the biggest problem, the princess met Seo for a few days and they are so deep in love with each other that she is willing to give up her status as a princess?

Palace politics, the writing is very weak, important decisions such as the princess's marriage are made in the court by fortune telling? It start off with a problem with drought, the people and government officials believe that the princess's marriage will solve the problem, I know people at that time period are superstitious but that makes no sense at all. Throughout the movie, the problem of drought is being brought up a lot of times but in the movie I don't see that, it keep showing luscious green trees and grass. My country has been through drought one time, you will see the grass withered over the country has turn yellow, discolored leaves among the green ones on trees. Overall, I have a feeling that this story would work better as a drama to develop each characters.


Acting: I know some of the casts in this movie, I have watched other movie and drama they are in and seen their talented acting performances from other shows. However I think the problem is the script, there is not a lot of focus on the characters thus their performance are very one-note, emotional scenes I don't feel it in their performance.