The Witch: The Other One

First disappointment of the year from South Korea. The Witch part 1 was an awesome and brutal action ride with emotions, packed with twists and great action scenes. The second part was of course one of the most anticipated films of the year, but unfortunately I'm not very happy with the result. There were too many things that irritated me to enjoy it. Plot-wise it's average and actually quite similar to the first one, only with a different girl in the lead role, but I wasn't really rooting for her. I missed the transformation of an innocent girl into the ultimate killing machine, here she just walks around, waves her arms and everyone flies away like a piece of paper. Of course, the film has good visuals, although the visual effects are very dodgy. The CGI is visibly bad here, and Korea needs to work on that a lot. The “marvelization” of South Korea is a direction that doesn't quite appeal to me, and I'd love a return to the old uncompromising and realistic carnage. Surprisingly, there's not much action. There are only three action scenes in the first hour and a half and they didn't completely blow me away. The finale itself is almost twenty minutes long, but it didn't grab me. It felt artificial, overdone, everyone has abilities ranging from flying to immortality with no set rules, and it gives the impression of Man of Steel with an R-rating. When it comes to Gore, I was satisfied, but there wasn't as much as I would have liked. In the first one I liked the fact that the main character kills normal people, here it's mostly just people with superpowers fighting and it didn't have the right grit and juice. The digression with the mobsters was interesting and I would much rather see this as a classic gangster movie. where they cut themselves with knives than fly through the air. In short, it went into Marvel/Anime style and it will find its fans, I was unfortunately bored at times and didn't get the action satisfaction I needed. Of course it's good enough for a decent average, but it's far from the movie of the year. 6/10. (25.07.2022)