I have so many thoughts, but the first is if you enjoy Korean or exorcism films you might actually like this. It's so dynamic and something I really appreciate is that the movie has parts in italian and english, not just Korean. YongHo is an mma fighter but he's not actually that muscular and his first opponent isnt as cut as I thought hed be. Actually I think YongHo gets more ripped halfway through the movie? The match takes place in america so the white guy is called john white of course. Lol
YongHo's dad died when he was young despite all the praying so he has forsaken god. This opens him to the influence of the devil, or in this movie, the "dark priest", a super hot Korean guy, hotter even than YongHo, worshipping the snake lord or something. He owns a nightclub like the one in the third john wick movie. Slick, black great use of colours throughout this movie btw. Especially at the end contrasting between the evil and good as yongho descends into the underground dungeon at the nightclub.
The music was nothing to write home about and the movie also imo has huge issues with decibel levels. All the sounds are normal until someone screams and its 3x the volume of everything else - beyond actually just being that screaming is loud. There were some great CG AND practical effects and the story came together quite well, except for YongHo battling with his hate of god. I really disliked the part where he chose to be influenced by the dark priest in the place of father choi and ignore his priest friend who he had bonded with over the course of the film.
It was actually genuinely scary in some parts. It doesn't hold back showing gore and violence and a dead kid even. However, I think for me the pitfalls are the ...on the nose devil signs and product placement. The dark priest runs a nightclub with a logo that looks like demon horns and snakes and his club is called Babylon. How was that not so obvious? And there are some blatant scenes showing the logo of the car the main character is driving, a starbucks cup and asahi beer. With tensions rising in korea between Japan aas that really well placed? Lol and I guess they needed funding from the car and starbucks to film internationally.
Also says theres a sequel coming with choi wooshik again so they can deal with the fact they just left that hand snake thing in the nightclub so anyone can go find it. Hope to see it. 8/10
Review by CatsyBlockedParentSpoilers2019-08-11T10:54:06Z
I have so many thoughts, but the first is if you enjoy Korean or exorcism films you might actually like this. It's so dynamic and something I really appreciate is that the movie has parts in italian and english, not just Korean. YongHo is an mma fighter but he's not actually that muscular and his first opponent isnt as cut as I thought hed be. Actually I think YongHo gets more ripped halfway through the movie? The match takes place in america so the white guy is called john white of course. Lol
YongHo's dad died when he was young despite all the praying so he has forsaken god. This opens him to the influence of the devil, or in this movie, the "dark priest", a super hot Korean guy, hotter even than YongHo, worshipping the snake lord or something. He owns a nightclub like the one in the third john wick movie. Slick, black great use of colours throughout this movie btw. Especially at the end contrasting between the evil and good as yongho descends into the underground dungeon at the nightclub.
The music was nothing to write home about and the movie also imo has huge issues with decibel levels. All the sounds are normal until someone screams and its 3x the volume of everything else - beyond actually just being that screaming is loud. There were some great CG AND practical effects and the story came together quite well, except for YongHo battling with his hate of god. I really disliked the part where he chose to be influenced by the dark priest in the place of father choi and ignore his priest friend who he had bonded with over the course of the film.
It was actually genuinely scary in some parts. It doesn't hold back showing gore and violence and a dead kid even. However, I think for me the pitfalls are the ...on the nose devil signs and product placement. The dark priest runs a nightclub with a logo that looks like demon horns and snakes and his club is called Babylon. How was that not so obvious? And there are some blatant scenes showing the logo of the car the main character is driving, a starbucks cup and asahi beer. With tensions rising in korea between Japan aas that really well placed? Lol and I guess they needed funding from the car and starbucks to film internationally.
Also says theres a sequel coming with choi wooshik again so they can deal with the fact they just left that hand snake thing in the nightclub so anyone can go find it. Hope to see it. 8/10