Console best movie i've ever seen.

Frances Chung Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

bestevergrandmaster The series was good for the most part but the ending was terrible. Sadly a poorly written storyline ending ruins the entire series and leaves you with a feeling of, this is terrible - even if the beginning and middle were good.Write better endings.

jhp2025 After watching this one, I felt like that all of James Bond movies are rubbish. Both either its casting or its stories quality! I herewith highly recommend IMDb's audience to watch it and understand its story line, then you'll understand why I wrote this. Truly I've underestimated Korean movie before I watched this one, and some others. The actors and actresses are as well mostly highly and well educated from certain universities, so they proved their quality doing their job.

martin-fennell But in 24 as far i recall, you never saw Kiefer Sutherland crying. This has some great action sequences. It also spends more time on the romance angle than 24 would.ut it also has moments of which didn't cut it with me (1) When Kim Sun Hwa is shooting at Kim Hyun Joon she's not really a very good shot is she. As a matter of fact, a lot of people who tried to kill him are very bad shots (2) the reason for the main character to gang up with the terrorists and attack NSS seemed weak. They had nothing to do with what happened to him. That was IRIS. Is there something I've forgotten. (3) The final confrontion between Vick and Kim Hyun Joon, More should have made on how Kim got into the place. As a matter of fact, i thought that Vick would have made sure that no one was following him. Assuming that Kim was just too smart for him, you would imagine Vick have had lots of alarms in his place. So there should have been a sequence showing Kim getting into the building. Then when he has the opportunity to kill him, or take him in, he decides to throw his gun away and kick the you know what out of him. Not only that, he leaves the gun conveniently near for Vick to attempt to kill him. (4) The confrontation where the s.w,a.t team leader pulls a gun on Kim. That was just too silly. (5) The hostages disguised as terrorists. Well kim, and san wee were plainly being fired at. So unless a quick bit of hypnotism was done on the hostages to make them believe they really were terrorists, I don't understand why they would fire on them. my favourite character was the north korean female agent Kim Sun Hwa. She was serious mode most of the time. But on the few occasions, she did smile, it was lovely to see. My least favourite was the section chief. Where all of the other acting was minimilist, he went in the other direction. I liked him at first, but then his over the top expressions weren't to my liking. So why after all my complaints, do i rate the series so highly. Well, it's compelling. it keeps you on your toes. you want to know what's gonna happen. That's a big plus. I would like to see some of these actors (i include the ladies) in other stuff, because i found it hard to gauge just how well they can act.my favourite scene is where the section chief and others come to Choi Seung Hee's house on her birthday. But they find her in a very bad way. I just liked the way it changed from light to dark

cremea SPOILERS AHEAD!"Iris" is Korean TV show that aired back in 2009. It's your basic Korean melodramatic TV series format, only it's infused with a significant amount of action & intrigue.I think the idea behind this series, to put it bluntly, was to get some guys who like action/spy flicks to tune into a genre that is almost exclusively geared to attracting female viewers by nature. Judging by the show's super high nationwide ratings (nearly 40% of all Korean TV viewers were watching this show by the time it wrapped up), I'd say the producers accomplished their goal and then some. Iris was a massive success by KTV standards that soon spawned a spin-off show, a movie, talks of a second season (which only rarely happens in this medium), etc…Viewers loved it immediately (as did I), and it's easy to see why; it's often a riveting television series that is awfully hard to look away from!The closest comparison to this show is probably the American TV series "24"…I think that's a somewhat fair comparison, but it would be a disservice to both "Iris" & "24" to say they are too similar to one another to just lump together…there's plenty of room in the world for both. I actually liken "Iris" to more of feature length film though…albeit, a film that just keeps on going & going. Production values are through the roof; various exotic locales, terrific cinematography, blazing gunfights and action scenes…they spared no expense here (for a TV series), and it definitely shows on screen.What cannot be overlooked is this show is, at its core, a soap opera…It's a high octane soap opera indeed, but a soap opera nonetheless. I've seen a ton of Korean melodrama series over the years…some I adored, some made me groan in faux agony, and everywhere in between…but, I've never seen one quite like this show. It tries to have the best of both worlds, and it succeeds in doing so quite well overall during its run time.Here's your story: Two marines who are friends get recruited by the NSS (which is pretty much the South Korean equivalent of the U.S. CIA/NSA). While there, they meet the primary love interest who is their sub section chief responsible for training them. The 2 friends quickly take to their new jobs as secret agents, and are soon deployed in the field. Things start to go wrong when they are sent on an important mission though, and the 2 friends discover they are mere pawns to be used or sacrificed as needed.The NIS is primarily engaged with dealing with their North Korean counterparts, but, it soon becomes apparent there is a shadow organization at work behind the scenes known as Iris…the goal of Iris is too pretty much pit the 2 Koreas (and other nations) against each other, so they can profit and rise to world power.After the botched mission by the 2 friends/leads, this show basically boils down to a matter of slowly uncovering what everybody's motives are, who's working for whom, who's ultimately good and who's ultimately evil, etc…Along the way, there's your main love interest storyline, the main friendship storyline, people being good and people being evil, characters reconciling with themselves and others over time in regards to what they believe is right and wrong, etc…(all of which are familiar Korean melodramatic hallmarks).What's not to like about this show?...Not a whole lot to be honest! It is very entertaining and highly addictive. Could have been a bit shorter, and, casting TOP was a bit of a misstep in my opinion (sorry ladies); he simply does not make for an imposing bad guy. The rest of the cast is really good in their roles (led by Lee Byung Hun, the primary lead actor, who is just awesome). I would also like to note that I've always loved the fact that there seems to be no clear delineation between "movie star" and "TV actor" in Korean productions…major actors and actresses go back and forth between the 2 mediums seemingly at will, and that makes for some terrific performances when you might be inclined to expect less since "you're just watching a television show".Highly watchable…whether it be for the typical melodrama & intrigue inherent to this KTV genre, or for the electrifying gun battles in the rush hour streets of downtown Seoul, or for the story & performances, or for just about anything and everywhere in between.Bottom Line: 8 out of 10 stars!…Very Well Recommended!