This movie got the stellar reviews just because the PC crowd got pi**ed off that Joker took all the limelight. There had to be a "counter-balace" and this movie got hyped. The first half is overly melodramatic and "funny" as in American Pie type funny, and the latter half at the very best portrays some of the struggles of Korean society-presented in a weird and almost Twilight Zone-ish way. But that's litetally it! Besides the sudden plot/atmospheric twist there is little else. Imagine if K-pop was a movie, and the last part of the tune turns to a Metallica song. That's this movie in a nutshell. It was not bad, but all the stellar reviews are give it way too much credit. Joker won, the rest is just attempts to br de jour.