It does seem slow and uneventful at first, and the pace indeed is deliberate. But with repeated viewings (I have seen the movie at least 20 times) the very restraint, the masked emotions of the main characters, create an almost unbearable tension. Their sense of loss and betrayal is complicated by the guilty love they are beginning to feel for each other while their cheating spouses lie comatose in the hospital. I respect the opinions of the great folks at HKFlix, but I think they are seriously misleading potential purchasers. (For one thing, there is really no such thing as a BAD Son Ye Jin movie.) Several times I have watched this movie twice in the same evening, without a pause, just to reexperience the film's smothered intensity, the terrible pain and perplexing desire forced beneath the surface of the characters' vigilant, somber demeanor. To a passerby, Son Ye Jin would appear like any other wife outside an IC ward, waiting for better or worse, calm only because she is exhausted by shock and sorrow and dread. But we are permitted to know more than the passerby, and we discover the amazing range of emotion the actress conveys with the most subtle of modulations.