Review of Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom

It's hard to pin this one down. It's not quite a mafia/crime show, but it's centered heavily around it. It's not a suspense/thriller, but it's got a few cliffhangers. It's not in the action genre, but it does have "gunplay" (meaning some characters shoot guns. Nothing stylish, just for plot function), and a little knife play (the little choreography that exists is good). It's not a character piece, because character development/growth doesn't really happen. I'd call this more an introspective piece. It asks the viewer "How would you feel if you were made to kill? How would you see your life moving forward from there?" Nothingoverly original here plot wise. The story is really baseline reactionary for the protagonists. The antagonists could have had a better throughline, but the plot really settles on boilerplate power struggles between characters you care none about.

The Main characters suffer from the same amount of apathy. They're both extremely cold, emotionally distant people. It's extremely rare that either make any decisions on their own instead of just reacting, so you can't empathize where they're going, and further more, where they end up is exactly where you think they do. No surprises. Nothing new.

Long story short, I was bored and unimpressed with this, and yet, it got me to the end. I watched it straight through, and I don't hate that I did.