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[HanCinema's Drama Review] "Three Days" Episode 2

It would seem that I was mistaken on the action front. Initially the attack is a big deal, but for the most part this episode is just an anatomy of the attack, which was so sudden there's not even much to see. The focus here is mainly on Tae-kyoung, who is being treated suspiciously for...some reason I'm not sure what exactly. Maybe I've seen too many of these cat-and-mouse mysteries, but everything about this episode was so painfully predictable I was just impatiently tapping my fingers thinking "get on with it already!"

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So, Tae-kyoung is wrongly accused, and now must work on his own to protect the president. That's motivation. In terms of character traits we find out that he's apparently an ingenius detective. Like, apparently much more competent than anyone else in the secret service, with the possible exception of Cha-yeong (played by So Yi-hyun), but who knows how long it's going take for her to figure out what's actually going on.

To some extent I'm not terribly surprised to find that the secret service is so lackluster here. The first episode clearly established these people are horribly reliant on gadgets and toys to do their job, so it's understandable that they're a bit lacking in the competence department when this stuff is taken away from them. Still, as cliches go, "Three Days" has not done a very good job setting up the premise so I can only hope for better execution in the future.

Bo-won (played by Park Ha-sun) is a bright spot. She has pretty much no idea what's going on, is stuck with a bum leg, and is being chased by international rogues who clearly have her outgunned. I like the way Park Ha-sun does panic, and I especially like her range here. These scenes have genuine tension because there's just so little clue of what's actually happening, but Bo-won displays excellent courage under fire.

Now, of course, she must inevitably run into Tae-kyoung- a development which I find worrisome. Tae-kyoung's story has, so far, just been kind of goofy. I have a much easier time identifying with the police officer who's stumbled onto an international conspiracy by accident than the guy who's already figured out the main important plot point through, I don't know, wizardry or something, and has been contrived as an enemy of the state for fairly unconvincing reasons. Like, am I the only one wondering how exactly the bad guy got shot in the arm? I mean from the perspective of the other characters. They disarmed Tae-kyoung before he entered, how the heck could he shoot the dude without a gun?

Review by William Schwartz

"Three Days" is directed by Sin Kyeong-soo, written by Kim Eun-hee-I and features Micky Yoochun, Son Hyun-joo, Park Ha-sun, So Yi-hyun, Yoon Je-moon, Choi Won-young and Jang Hyun-sung.

 

 

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