L.U.C.A.: O Começo (2021)

Amazing story and OST

The OST was amazing. 10/10 music which was stuck in my head and wasn’t released until after the show ended. I think my favorite parts of the story were Gu reums and Zi O’s sad moments. The happy episode was great but I liked that more as a flashback. I would totally recommend if you want a kdrama with action, romance, and a great soundtrack. The acting was great as well; however, I’m not experienced enough to write a review for one’s acting skills. The acting and visuals that made this show were out of this world. I’m talking about the stuff that made me in my feels during the whole ride. The story is good but the villains were clearly portrayed as evil. Like some dramas have such a great storyline that the line between a villian and a victim become thin; however, in LUCA, they stay consistent in my mind. The only part I didn’t like was that Zi O had too much character development. I’m the dude that just wants Zi O and Gu Reum to have a happy ending or at least an ending were they end up together (I’m talking about an ending like “the smile has left your eyes”). Totally recommend watching

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the first few episodes were really promising, the storyline, action scenes, there were lots of potential and i look forward on how the story will unfold. but then it just about them running away and hiding from the organisation, and it become repetitive. it becomes boring and draggy. i wish they could focus more on the science part, the l.u.c.a part, rather than just the relationship or maybe empathise more about the male is a monster or not. idk, the storyline was mehh. and as many other reviews, the last 4 episodes was ??? it became so messy and the once strong characters suddenly become so weak and stupid, everything is just emotional. i swear the plot was all over the place. andd all the difficult things previously became so easy like huhhh. and they make gu reum's revenge/ finding the truth behind her parents such a big deal, but then zuppp it end just like that. idk, maybe i expected a lot, the potential went to waste. i don't like this drama but i don't hate it too

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Seriously underrated drama

You should only watch this if you can make sure you won’t be too emotionally invested in this because once you are in there is no out. I never thought the drama would turn out to be so good. The turning point is really at EP 8 that is the point you really can’t pull yourself out anymore. I feel so much empathy for Zio Guruem Lee Son and Yoona like seriously a happy ending for them is all I hope for now. They all deserve to live a good life. Even though Lee Son and Yoona are the bad guys in this drama, they are still the victims of the whole lab experiment thing. I never thought that an action thriller drama can make me laugh and cry. Normally I only feel tension. I think the main cast did a great job acting, the chemistry is off the chart! The OSTs was absolutely amazing, there wasn’t a drama where I liked all the OSTs before. Overall this is a must watch drama if you are looking for an emotional rollercoaster and action scenes

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Thought provoking

A very unsettling drama, as one can imagine that if something like this ever became possible, there would be power crazy dictatorships and wealthy countries happy to abuse and use engineered humans as weapons.
After all, with cloning, growing a human ear on a mouse and even working on growing human organs in pigs, this drama is not total fiction.
There are many very unlikable characters and the usual abuse of and arrogance towards, ordinary people, by those with power and money, is a key part of the story.
Ji Oh reminds me of Frankenstein's monster; lonely, naive and innocent. Sadly that also makes him vulnerable and easy to manipulate by those he mistakenly thinks know best. It's people's abuse and cruelty that leads to the monster emerging. Kim Rae-won was so good in portraying the role.
The character of Gu Reum was really well acted by Lee Da-hee; tough, principled, but ultimately, I found her to be fickle. Ji Oh never hurt her, but loved her and only ever wanted to protect her; yet, at crucial times she listens to those very people that cause all their problems and no end of pain.
To think that she could protect something precious alone and that Ji Oh would be OK with that, was crazy. There were so many things she could have said to him to compromise his mistaken beliefs, but she didn't even attempt it. There are ways around memory loss.
I found every episode gripping and the story well thought out, but the final one was bizarre. That Gu Reum would rather leave something hidden, risking it not surviving, than to tell Ji Oh where it was, I found unbelievable.
L.U.C.A. is the beginning of something altogether quite horrifying ~ not the super humans themselves, but what most likely would happen to them and ultimately, us.
Well worth watching and very thought provoking.

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An honest review

Well honestly the actors are pretty good but why are all the kdrama writers making the male lead an idiot who uses their emotion rather than their brain to get what they want I know that they have these things call protagonist shield till the last episode but seeing from the perspective of Captain Choi who liked Yoo Na.
Our main lead due to his emotions killed her and because of that Captain now will go through some badass killing spree. AND WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THE LATEST EP10. There are so many plotholes. I MEAN SERIOUSLY Zi O is saying he is a human but I would say he is a beast or an animal rather than a human. gu reum she is like a wild tigress on a last stand. So my point is this drama from my view should focus more on gu reum. Gu reum is trying to save her baby and herself to gain freedom while ZiO is trying to take their freedom. And then the villains come manipulating the main lead. Its like watching a nat geo strong preying on the weak and the babies getting eaten by adults. Thats what happening right now. I cheered all my way through ep8 because he hadnt done anything bad, even if he is being manipulated it shoudnt have been that bad. But you know how kdramas are like. Its a good one even though there are no psychological play. Would have been good if there was. and last DROPPING IT.

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In my opinion - Unexpected

The first few episodes of L.U.C.A was interesting because:
- certain topics highlighted was thought-provoking
- characters were interesting

I honestly thought this drama would end just as how it started. However, towards the end of the drama, the drama turned out to be uninteresting and stale. Despite all the action scenes that the drama painstakingly prepared, it was highly repetitive. The choices made by the characters towards the end were debatable. The ending was not something that I fully understood either, which ended up as a disappointment for me.

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Beauty and Beast

I have always been a fan of these "monster" theme stories which kdrama industry keeps inventing, be it Hello Monster, He is psychometric, Flower of Evil. Sometimes it is a behavioral flaw and sometimes it is a certain power. This time the concept was something so novel. Genetic Engineering. Genome editing. Human Experimentation. Religious Cult. Mad Scientist. Invincible Military man who keeps coming back from death. You name it, LUCA has them all.

There's the Beast, Z-0 who is constantly on run to survive from people he can't remember. And there's the beauty, (cough cough, with her messy hairdo) who is investigating about her missing parents. Initially, the beauty seems very strong, she can kick some ass, and in turn, gets kicked too because of over confidence. She turns out to be only dialogues and lacking in action. Like one of those moments of getting kicked in ass, she ends up meeting a truck of doom. Comes the beast, saves her, and she later tries to save him. Overestimates herself, only to be saved by him again. And this happens again and again. Meanwhile, falling in love with beast, well it felt like one rainy night mistake. When reality kicks in, she tries to kick some ass, overestimates herself, only to be saved by him again. And this happens again and again. Until, she finally saves the him. Frustrating, ain't it!?

Stories like "beauty and beast" revolve around the idea of highlighting the need of kindness in theory. But Luca turns out to be what would happen in reality. Conflict of interests turning the beast into ruthless monster. For a second, I got reminded of X-men Origins: Wolverine and that wailing. I didn't wail for bodies he piled up. His transformation and the ending is what I loved so much about the show.

But my love couldn't overlook the mess. What went wrong was the repetitive screenplay. And the FL's brain. (was it because of getting constantly hit in the head?) And the inconsistency with its characters. For instance, when Z-0 makes some plans to escape his enemies only to get outwitted but when he is with Ha Neul Ae Gu Reum he somehow succeeds.

Oh the action, I really loved the action scenes. Especially the elevator fight scene, lot better than the one in "K2". But then it too become so repetitive and mundane that I didn't miss anything by skipping them. The music, especially the end track was really good. I wasn't impressed with Kim Rae Won in Doctors but the way he portrayed Z-0 showing emotions of being on edge of constant fear, made me give a ten for acting.

LUCA: The Beginning, great in concept but mediocre in execution.

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Too Smart for the Audience

I swear if people who watch rom-coms, melodramas and slice of life say shit about it one more time i-

If you do not watch a genre in specific and have no deep character understanding then stick to what you watch and give a rating to those shows. Type of People who love Crash Landing on you, BOF etc etc and slice of life bs can keep their narrow mind to themselves and watch what they have capability to understand. Do not spoil it for others.

The best thing i liked about this, the anti hero sort of character that the main lead is. He feels more like an anti villain if thats a thing lol. Well written, very consistent and if u missed he even unintentionally manipulated the fl for his own survival. I love him and i don't think people look for depth nowadays or are even able to understand it. I am so terribly sad that i see literally nobody talking about the amazing soundtrack. One should listen to the OSTs separately even if they don't watch the drama.Its such a shame that a drama this good is rated low. I wish kdramas didn't have an audience full of teenagers.

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Good potential but badly written FL

It had really good OST and great acting by the cast and but that was it.

I never wrote a review for a drama but I had to for this one as at the start i really enjoyed the show and thought it might become one of my favs but with how bad and irritating the FL was, it went downhill

So the story started off really good but slowly things got weird, is the FL a superhuman too? She's getting thrown around, fighting off a group of trained men and sometimes even when they had weapons and is ready fight again the next day. Things were good during the middle but In EP10 she was so heartless to her so called husband that she wanted him gone and never see his own daughter ever and even went as far as to say that they committed a sin by giving birth to their daughter because of his cured genes and she said all this based off what the people that were trying to kill them and threatened to kill her daughter and easily convinced the whole damm country that she's a murderer showed her and the story of black arm guy and red hair girl was much better than the ML and FL, they both wanted to protect each other while here at first the FL wanted to kill th ML then she married him then she wanted him gone and at the end she wanted him to come back like make up your goddamm mind. All he has done from when he met her is save her life again and again though she did took a bullet for him at the end when she wanted him to come back but it was too late.

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The only good thing going for this show is its CGI

I never really write reviews and I only watched the show for the FL. The first few episodes are pretty bearable and the acting is at most acceptable.
There may be very small spoilers ahead when I try to explain why I disliked this show.

1. The FL keeps getting thrown off her feet every other episode, like literally. And since the episodes show a continuous story, she manages to get up and fight the villain the very next episode. I mean, come on, make it believable, one or two hours in the hospital will solve multiple head traumas based on this logic.
2. The villain has zero depth.
3. The ML lacks both common sense and plot. Yolo he keeps blasting electric charges.

Though it's a new concept, it could have been better written by a racoon. Acting is borderline acceptable. ML seems a bit old for this role for me at least.

I would suggest not wasting 12 hrs on this show. Everything is put together hastily, the romance is kinda meaningless, comedy is sporadic, and action is basically the ML fighting the villain in the same fashion every episode.

If you plan to watch it, pay no attention to the story, watch it if you like the actors and blind action.
9/10 - for action scenes (I like the Hollywood like action scenes with the shaky cam effect)
10/10 - CGI

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If perfect and awesome had a drama as their definition!

As a person who's been a K-Drama fan for over a decade I'm telling you from my experience that don't ask me any questions and just go and watch the drama. I mean it when I say that this drama is perfect and awesome. This drama is just so awesome.
The drama is high on action, like every episode has multiple action scenes. As the show is yet to finish I'm highly anticipating how it'll end. The drama doesn't have any unnecessary romance scenes unlike many. I feel like that the creators were highly aware of what should be there and what shouldn't cause it's very evident with the end product.
Be it be the casting, VFX, OST, acting, story or anything this drama is just perfect. I really wish for a happy ending but the title has the beginning in it so maybe like maybe there will a season 2? Who knows?😜😜

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I thought people were exaggerating

Well... turns out they weren't. This drama is worth your time, but only up to episode eight. As other's claim, it went downhill from there. Don't be naive like me and ignore the reviews just because it looks promising at first glance. If you're looking for an ending you'll be satisfied with and a drama that keeps your interest all way through, this isn't for you. I am personally very into thrillers and I bet you are too! It starts out so good and promising that even I thought people left poor reviews for no reason. It was totally my type of drama and I was very happy to have found this content as I am currently in a lack of dramas to watch. However, this didn't make the cut and there's so many better thrillers out there that didn't mess it up this much. Also, the problem doesn't come down to anything but how the male lead develops in the end and completely goes against his own morals. More or less, he becomes the bad guy in the screenwriter's desperate attempt to build up for a possible second season. All of which gave the opposite effect: I have lost all reason to watch another season. Again, if you want to save yourself some time and disappointment, make episode eight your ending and you will leave satisfied. My rating is high solely for the first eight episodes, as I think episode eight would have been the perfect way to end the drama. If I were to only rate the four last episodes... let's just say it wouldn't be this good. And if it would have ended like it should have, it might just have been one of my favorite thrillers.

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