Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

A different way of telling a story

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Great Korean movie, fantastic writing, loved the actors, and it truly was good at being emotional!

Honestly, despite my love for korean movie / series, I'm not a fan a sageuk genre. They tend to bore me to tears because sometimes I have no idea their background and I don't know South Korean history. It might be this movie will have a first draw to people like me who doesn't like sageuk genre at all and start to appreciate the genre. If there is one thing this genre brought me to tears, It's the circumstance surrounding the citizen and how they crave about how a great KING will lead them. Lee Byung Hun really nail it as a KING and the pretending one. Which led you to think even if have already A King, Do you really thing your subordinate think you as one? There is abit naivety behind it, but it's very entertaining movie and worth a try to bring you joy for the first time on sageuk genre.

This movie is going to be enjoyed a lot by big fans of Korean cinema but to be completely honest I don't see other more casual movie fans enjoying it as much.The story is a really good one but this movie is definitely an example of how different the storytelling and cinematography and even just acting and directing can be worlds apart as to how different it can be from our more North American style movies we watch typically over here, the Hollywood style films.The acting is definitely really great with a lot of great actors in this, and the director does a great job committing a very good and deep story to the screen.

***Spoilers below*** I will be very surprised Lee Byung-Hun does not get the best actor prize in Korea this year. The transition from the real king to the impostor/actor was absolutely amazing (to say the least) making it easy to know which was which; very important in my ability to follow the story as it unfolded. The only confusion I felt was which high government official was which - all the way through the movie, the only way to figure out who was whom was if they "stepped out" when the king called on them; they all had the same clothing, hat, beard, mannerism (I do realize that this is how it was back then but still I kept asking myself, "now, who the heck is this nut?")Overall, it was a wonderful movie with high production value that I thoroughly enjoyed. It could have used better editing about 15 minutes from the end of the movie tho - it dragged a bit where the lighting was way off - the reason for a 9 out of 10.Cinematography was phenomenal!