For once I will try not to be a chatterbox and get straight to the point.

Pros
- Production quality
- Acting
- Kim Seon Ho's performance in the last episode
- Dark atmosphere -it can get too dark though, so have your brightness as high as possible-
- Action scenes
- Violence/Gore
- Lim Sang as a comedic relief -that wasn’t too much to ruin the atmosphere of the drama-
- Ja Kyung! She was the highlight of the series and I hope we get to see the actress more in the future
- How I love ruthless women in action series!
- Good concept
- Pretty entertaining last two eps

Cons
Plot
This is the biggest flaw of the series. The Tyrant starts very abruptly. It’s like they expect the viewers to know what is happening and what has already happened. There are way too many characters that appear and we don’t know who they are, what is their aim and who they are working for. It’s funny, cause I actually double checked to make sure that I was indeed watching the first episode of the drama and not like the third. As a result, first two episodes were not only a bit boring, but also incomprehensible (especially if you haven't read the synopsis). In other words? It felt like an entire episode, that was supposed to work as a set-up for the plot and the characters, was missing.

Duration
Why is this even a series? It felt like a movie. Like they didn’t want it to be too long and they were like ‘’let’s just make it into a four episode drama’’. There are no cliffhanger episodes and no real character development that would justify making this into a series. And let's be honest, it wouldn’t be even that long as a film, if they combined all the episodes.

Kim Kang Woo as Paul
He was overacting here and there trying to be the bad guy, but it felt completely out of place in a series that was pretty dark and had a serious atmosphere.

English
They have to add this in every series apparently! I do not get what is the point of having that one scene where an actor is in a foreign country, speaking English and heading to Korea to "take care of a business". There was zero reason for that, and it got worse when they spoke English in Korea out of freaking nowhere. It is extremely obvious that the actors, and mostly Kim Kang Woo who was the main English speaker, don’t have a good understanding of the language. It was like they were just reading the script and it was cringy at times, even though -and I will admit that- it was one of the better performances in that aspect compared to most series/movies.

CGI/Special Effects: They were great when it came to action scenes and violence, but what was the point to try making something more from it? I won’t say anything specific, cause of spoilers, but that one scene in the beginning of episode 2 was completely unnecessary and ruined the drama.


All in all, this ended up being an entertaining watch with some commendable action scenes, but it is in no way a great series and unfortunately it is not close to the greatness of The Witch: The Subversion.