cast: lee je hoon, esom, kim eui sung, pyo ye jin
genre: crime story/life story
kim do gi (lee je hoon) was an officer in the special forces. he was the only son and he lived together with his mother. however, when he was on a break, he found his mother killed by a serial murder. he felt helpless and lost his way. that's when he met jang sung chul (kim eui sung). sung chul was a CEO of a taxi company, but he had another project on his "rainbow taxi" company. rainbow taxi acted as a front for his secret organization that helps victim's family to get revenge since they couldn't get it by law. sung chul recruited do gi to be the taxi driver that delivered revenge based on the client's demand. they didn't work together. with the help of ahn go eun (pyo ye jin), a cashier/computer hacker that joined the rainbow taxi to avenge her elder sister's suicide, and the technician duo, choi kyung goo (jang hyuk jin) and park jin eon (bae yoo ram) who both joined the company to avenge their brother/sister's death.
unfortunately, the team's case overlapped with kang ha na (esom)'s case, a prosecutor from seoul northern district office. ha na was straight and she wanted all criminals to be punished fairly by law, thus she didn't approve of some of the rainbow taxi's team work even though they worked against the criminal as well. she believed no matter what the reason was, the criminal should be judged by the law. thus she started to chase after the team after a main suspect from her case released from custody but kidnapped on his way home after being released. after that they stumbled on several cases, making ha na became suspicious of do gi.
there are some cases in the drama, but one by one we saw the connection between the cases and the crew member of rainbow taxi. from the killer of sung chul's parents, to go eun's sister ex-boyfriend that apparently contributed to the sex tape that was recorded without her sister's knowledge. the drama also presented a true story of a company worker abuse by a famous IT company CEO. they used a real story as background, but the rest i don't know for sure. in the drama, they connected the IT company to the illegal sex video cloud in which go eun's sister sex tape was stored.
they also took care of bullying case gone bad (gee.. the bullying portrayed here was quite severe as the victim got into accident) and the last case was about the real killer of do gi and sung chul's parents. this was their last case as their previous case went awry. the suspects that have been kept in underground prison managed to escape thus creating some problems along the way. ha na's colleague ended up getting killed while trying to capture the devil twins of the loanshark lady whom sung chul got in agreement with to keep all his prisoners. after that incident, ha na was tempted to use the rainbow taxi's service. all the rainbow taxi's crew promised that after catching the twins, they would give themselves up. but the story of the real killer was put over sung chul's desk. fortunately, they didn't have to do anything since the real killer did the damage himself. he injured his own son who apparently worked as prison guard in the same prison thus he failed to visit his dementia mother that got his mother into accident for seeing someone as her son and tried to follow him. sung chul at first didn't want to reveal the son's identity, but at the end, he did and it gave a big blow to the psycopath.
after that case, the whole team seemed to be on their separate ways. sung chul kept being a taxi CEO since his prosecutor friend decided not to accept him surrendering himself and chose to be removed from his position and became a defender for victim's family, working alongside with sung chul again. do gi travelled around the world, but at the end we saw he got a call from sung chul, asking for his return. the mechanic duo went back to their previous workplace, but later we saw they got a message from their rainbow taxi's beeper. while go eun passed her civil service exam and became a patrol officer and still helping rainbow taxi. while ha na still worked as a prosecutor, but at the end we saw her join forces with rainbow taxi crew. could this be a sign for second season?
what i like:
- excellent acting from all actors and actresses even the supporting ones. though i don't quite like the supporting actors and actresses from the IT company period. it seemed ridiculous that punks worked for high-earning IT company.
- interesting story without any plot hole, though since there are so many cases in the drama, i was confused with the names as usual. too many supporting roles as the cases opened and closed one by one.
what i don't like:
- some scenes don't make sense, like the hacking part, all scenes involving accidents and explosions. well, at least the effects are better than vagabond, but still..
- can we say that the secret lair under sung chul's house is a bit too much? won't the neighbor at least complained and told the police that they saw the black taxi coming to and going from sung chul's house when being questioned?
rating: 9/10
binge worthy: totally yes
recommended for: thrill seeker and crime story lover. maybe lee je hoon's fans that wanted to see him in action again.
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