Hawaii Five-0 (TV Series) Ki'ilua (Deceiver) (2011) User Reviews

Fun adventure

[Girlyq · 9/10 · 9 March 2021]

I thoroughly enjoyed the episode. I never understand the reviews that talk about how unrealistic the stories are. To me film and TV are escapism, meant to entertain. If I want realism I'll look for documentaries.

The guest cast was a treat for me too. Terry O'Quinn, David Keith and Jimmy Buffett all just added to a much enjoyed show.

Predictable but still a good episode.

[mm-39 · 8/10 · 22 November 2011]

It is nice to have non P C action shows. Actions shows are just fun to watch. This episode has all the predictable plot twists of an action show. The protagonist is lured into a trap by a trusted friend. The friend has good reason to hurt the protagonist. The friend tries to redeem him or her self. If one adds in Navy Seals, some good friends, North Korea, a chopper, and a few fire fights into this storyline you have an exciting one hour show. I like the themes of courage and honour with the show. I like how this episodes one sees Mc G's honour and prides for his friends is his weakness that his enemies use, but is also his redemption when his friends rescue him. The ending was a feel good moment. I give this episode an eight out of ten

2.10 Filled With Tension and Success ****

[edwagreen · 10/10 · 5 June 2012]

When a reporter is murdered, it is believed that she was done in by the company she was exposing for dumping pollutants in the sea. Not necessarily as this appeared to become much more involved, including Wo Fat's planned revenge against McGarrett.

This plan included luring Steve into North Korea to help Jenna rescue her boyfriend who was being held there. What a rude awakening waits Steve when he goes with her!

What made this episode even more effective was the camaraderie shown by Steve's fellow navy seals along with the rest of the Five-O team in their rescue effort of their friend and colleague.

Wo Fat Springs a Trap On Steve

[shelbythuylinh · 8/10 · 14 March 2022]

Five 0 Goes BAMF over on it. To find Steve to have on Jenna Kaye the former CIA analyst there. And in the bringing Steve possibly on that over to investigate a murder of a journalist.

But it is nothing but a trap and that Jenna and Wo-Fat are working in agreement. But Wo Fat does not care who works with him or people getting hurt and/or killed.

Still Jenna in guilt in what she did in facing treason charges as well as that of wanting to make it up to Steve in possibly sacrificing her own life as the team find Steve barely hanging onto life there.

Complete crap, unfortunately

[pmapitkanen · 1/10 · 24 November 2011]

I normally like to watch this series. However, this episode was completely awful. The problem was that the people who filmed it did not appear to know anything about Korea nor did they bother to even try to find out. First of all, the geography for Korea seemed to be wrong from the start, it appeared to place Korea in Southeast Asia. I thought I had heard it wrong, but, the landscape they had for Korea was completely wrong - there are no palm trees except some in the very south in Busan or in Jeju Island, but none otherwise on the peninsula except these very southern locations, and definitely not anywhere near the demilitarised zone where the events were portrayed to take place. Otherwise, too, I've actually been in the DMZ myself, and definitely it does not look like anything shown in the episode. Secondly, the Korean baddies spoke awful Korean, the accent was hardly understandable and mangled. In addition, these guys were crossing the world's possibly most heavily guarded border at will - this would be absolutely impossible in real life, not to mention of launching rockets in the area just like that with impunity. Maybe the filmmakers have seen too much MASH from the 70s or old Vietnam war movies from which they have drawn. It's just awful, and I presume "the budget did not allow" to film in Korea, and perhaps they actually could not get any real Korean speakers to act in this episode due to all this. I can't understand how Danie Dae Kim and Grace Park, too, would have been able to put up with this, even granted that they are not first generation ethnic Koreans. It's all incredible...

Agreeing with pmapitkanen

[rgtorrey · 5/10 · 14 July 2015]

I enjoyed the episode, as I have all of them so far. Some are funnier than others. Sometimes they are just way over the top. This one was funnier than most because of the ridiculousness of just about everything related to Korea, both north and south. Along with the atrocious Korean spoken by the "Koreans", most of which was little more than gibberish with a couple well-known swear words thrown in and the outlandish South Korean bar and location, the geography was all wrong. Considering that Kaesong is a sizable city right on the boarder with a large modern economic zone near by built and funded by SK companies, "20 miles south of Kaesong" is a totally ridiculous location for old Korean War bunkers. In fact 20 miles due south of the old city of Kaesong puts you right smack in the middle of the very modern city of Inchon. The DMZ is only about 8 miles due south and less than 5 miles to the east of old Kaesong. Also there are very few large trees in Most of NK. The bunker, itself, was in much too fine shape to be left over from the war that ended over 60 years ago--modern, working electricity when even hospitals in the area go without for most of the time? And all those wooden cargo pallets in great shape! They would have been salvaged for building materials or firewood years ago. And, the whole idea of a humanitarian mission to SK to vaccinate kids? Come on. SK has one of the best modern health-care systems around and their medical people are always off on humanitarian missions to other parts of the world. Anyway, like I said, very entertaining but perhaps not as the writers intended.