First of all, the first hour of literary drama is very good, and the characters and psychological portrayals are also very delicate, including Yi Sun-sin's son, the messenger and his wife, the local old man, One Piece, and the Korean spy. Each character has his own story and that psychological change of being in the current environment.
Then the one-hour naval battle was even more majestic and immersive. The scale and configuration of the warships of the two sides were quite different, and the costumes and weapons of the Korean and Japanese armies were all very attractive to the audience. The play feels very real. In particular, Yi Sun-sin's beheading was the most impressive.
Finally, let’s talk about the flaws. The Koreans just blindly describe and exaggerate their people and troops, but ignore the enemy’s tactical analysis and combat psychology. The Japanese describe so little that their own people will always be like anti-Japanese dramas. Possessed by gods, the kind of undead warriors who are one dozen ten, and the spy who just took it away? There is no excessive description at all, it feels a little irresponsible, and at the end of the film, when Yi Sun-shin's boat was swept into the whirlpool, it was easily pulled out by a dozen village names with a few boats. This is really unconvincing, like what Yi Sun-sin said to his son at the end, why did we win? Because of miracles.
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