I watched this for about 20 minutes and that was all I could stand. The overacting, the repetitive 'comedy' and the similarity to "The Pirates" (2014) seems more than coincidental. From the beginning you could tell that it was trying too hard to outdo "The Pirates" (2014) and fails miserably at it. I was hoping that it was a sequel to that movie, but it is just a poor remake of that movie.

This is what you end up with when you mix up the scripts of Pirates of the Caribbean with the 70s trash 'Monkey' (or the Water Margin, which was even more unfathomable). Somebody might be able to make some sense of this but I couldn't. It's overacted to the nth degree, which just gets tiresome; even Jim Carrey can't compete with range of idiot facial expressions on parade here.

For all that, it does have its charms, and managing to get to the end of it felt like a triumph of sorts. Not recommended, but not dismissed either.

Silliness and action galore if that's what lights your fire. This forgoes some of the strengths I usually associate with Korean drama (deft plotting, strong rounded characters, great acting) and just about gets away with it. That's partly because it is not trying to be anything other than what it is: an action comedy. And both the action and the comedy scrape over the bar.