Title: 나쁜 녀석들 | Nappeun Nyeosukdeul | Bad Guys
Genre: Crime | Thriller | Action
Episodes: 11
Broadcast Network: OCN
Broadcast Period: October 4 to December 13, 2014

Synopsis:

A special group was formed to search a dangerous criminal. The police with their laws and rules can’t manage to settle the case until the Police Chief’s son was killed. He ended up requesting a first grade detective Oh Goo Tak who is currently suspended because of using excessive force to do his thing and catch the criminal who caused a deeply tragic event of his life. In doing so, Oh Goo Tak needs the help of dangerous criminals to catch another dangerous criminal. He formed a group consisting of Park Woong-Cheol, a gangster, who has unbelievable physical strength, Lee Jung-Moon, the youngest serial killer with extraordinary intelligence and Jung Tae-Soo, a contract killer. The group is guided by Police Inspector Yoo Mi-Young to provide control on certain situations. Together they all need to work together the cases where bad guys will catch their own kind and do some good this time and in turn discover the truth of who they really are and what they’ve personally done in their lives that affected others.

Characters:

• Kim Sang Joong as Oh Goo Tak
• Ma Dong Suk as Park Woong Chul
• Park Hae Jin as Lee Jung Moon
• Jo Dong Hyuk as Jung Tae Soo
• Kang Ye Won as Yoo Mi Young
• Kang Shin Il as Nam Goo Hyun
• Min Ji Ah as Park Sun Jung
• Hwang Seung Eon as Yang Yoo Jin
• Park Jung Hak as Lee Doo Kwang
• Kim Tae Hoon as Oh Jae Won
• Ki Se Hyung as Kang Doo Man
• Kim Jae Seung as Woo Hyun Woo
• Kim Sung Hoon as Lee Suk Jin
• Son Se Bin as Hyun Woo’s fiancee
• Jun Jin Seo as Kim Young Joon
• Nam Sung Jin as Kim Dong Ho
• Park Jung Woo as Son Moon Ki
• Park Hyo Joon as Yoon Chul Joo
• Park Sung Taek as Kim Do Shik
• Nam Tae Boo as Korean-Chinese
• Jang Sun Ho as Park Jong Suk
• Kwon Min as Nam Gun Wook on Episode 1-2
• Kim Byung Choon as Serial Killer with Blood Obsession on Episode 1
• Seo Hye Jin as Shin So Jung on Episode 3
• Lee Yong Nyeo as Hwang Kyung Soon on Episode 4
• Choi Young
• Lee Kyu Sub
• Choi Min
• Jung Soo In
• Ahn Byung Kyung
• Goo Jung Rim
• Heo Jae Ho
• Kim Jong Goo

My Review:

OCN has most of the time produced great action k-dramas and slightly away from typical commercial productions. It caters to those who wants something different especially in criminal, action and sci-fi genre. I must admit they are quite successful in doing that. Unfortunately, rarely that their k-dramas are appreciated as it should. This k-drama is one of those that highly deserved such appreciation. This is an underrated k-drama that’s full of action one can enjoy to the fullest and best shared for those who doesn’t like k-dramas because of what they considered to be cheesy romcoms and heavy dramas.

So, What do I Like About this K-Drama?

(1) This k-drama reminds me of the film Con Air by Nicolas Cage in 1997. Although, they are not totally the same but certain similarities on its premise made me remember it. And, like I enjoyed watching Con Air, I also enjoyed watching this. What’s even better is that it only runs in 11 episodes, thus, you can do marathon of watching it without the edgy feeling of when it is going to end as you’ve been in it for 16-24 hours already. It removes the guilt of you wasting time watching a k-drama when there’s still a lot of things to do in your real life.

(2) The actors are so good especially Park Hae Jin. I must admit I’m bias to him. I think he’s one of the rare k-actors who can play any role whether the villain or not and still can project depth to his role. He has this versatile quality. There’s another actor, that I was drawn to, Jo Dong Hyuk. He’s so believable in the character he portrays and definitely not a bad looking bloke.

(3) The fighting scenes were so well choreographed especially on Episode 7 between Jung Tae Soo and Park Jong Suk.

(4) The truth behind the killings is quite surprising and its revelation was so exquisitely executed that it provided an OMG moment for me. The plot I’ve stated above is simplified so it will not ruin for you the real suspense of this k-drama.

(5) It doesn’t have useless scenes and subplots that makes you feel restless of its significance.

What I do Not Like About this K-Drama?

It is always my contention for criminal and procedural k-dramas on how they handle crime scenes and evidences, unfortunately, this k-drama is the same. How can the crime scene not be preserved in the rain and allow others to touch the body even in autopsy? I can understand that they feel for the bereaved relative/s but again there’s no control in the handling and preservation of the evidence, thus, the possibility of securing the evidences and making sure you get the right criminal becomes nil. Every time I watch such genre and this is what I see, I sometimes question if this is the same in real life in how the police handles this kind of stuff. If so, then, there’s great possibility that a lot of people imprisoned in South Korea are probably innocent and convicted base only in circumstantial evidences that can be clearly disputed by a botch handling of the crime scene and evidences.

Having said that, this k-drama has excellently done a quality k-drama for its genre and has shown why my contention to be relevant in the end. Assuming people to be guilty without irrefutable evidence is always important no matter how we deemed to be sure that the person is really guilty.

Would I recommend this K-Drama? Yes, definitely.

My Rating to this Drama
( See My Rating System: ) 5/5 Stars

OST:

01.Break Up – Yoon Hyung Ryul
02. Reason – Roo

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