Vigilante

Another Korean action romp that grabs you right from the beginning and doesn't let up until the end. The protagonist is a young cadet at the police academy, he is a model student, but he stops liking that the law doesn't apply to everyone, most criminals don't get a proper punishment and after a while they run free to do more evil and the law is short on those influential people. He decides on weekends to take the law into his own hands and punish those who are above it. It may be a classic avenger theme, but the Koreans can make even such a simple theme complicated and excellent. Soon a fanboy shows up on the scene and starts imitating the vigilante, and a new captain arrives in town to hunt down the avenger. Ji-tae Yoo from Oldboy plays an incredible beast here and a psychopathic asshole that dishes out punches that make everyone fly two meters, he really made me feel scared, respectful, I really bought into that psychopathic look. The series has a great pace, it has great action scenes (perfectly choreographed fights, the main young hero can swing nicely and delivers some nice punishment), there are a lot of fist fights and it wouldn't be Korea without knives. You end up liking all the characters, a bunch of different criminals come together, and it has a pleasantly intense pace. The finale is a downright epic action scene with a fight where all the characters of the series come together. The series is more fans for martial arts and South Korea. PS: The episodes are only 40 minutes long. 8/10. (05/06/2024)