User Reviews

The story of "The Witch" really reminds me a lot of "Elfenlied".

Just like in Elfenlied, we have a superhuman, superstrong girl who isn't all human and has telekinetic abilities. Also just like in Elfenlied, she has a very innocent and a very dark side.

As in Elfenlied, mercenaries and hunting teams are after her. And she also is taken in by two young adults (although these are brother and sister, not cousins).

It now seems clear that this is going to be at least a trilogy. But I don't quite understand if this movie was necessary.

We don't really get too much information about this new girl. Heck, I didn't even understand that she apparently is the same girl on the bus in the beginning. And which one is her mother? I know there's this woman, the one Dr. Baek (the one who died in part 1) talked to in a flashback(?), but who is the other woman with longer hair? When does this take place?

I saw the first movie maybe less than a year ago, but I have to admit, I really can't remember who is who anymore or if they'd been in the first one, except for the paralyzed Dr. Baek.

And who is this team of hunters going after them? They seem to be the first(?) generation batch of super humans (outdated version) who now hunt the "better models", but why is one of them played by an overacting South African dude? I mean, nothing against the guy himself, but foreigners always stick out in Korean movies, unless they're Asian too or Russian.

As with most Korean movies, the cinematography, sound and picture are superb, but I really felt this movie was too long and confusing. It didn't really further the plot much and seemed more like a "made for Netflix" movie.

I'll re-rate this movie after I've been able to watch the whole trilogy, but for now, it seems subpar and a bit too clicheed for me.

Confusing, not as good as the first, but still interesting.

The pregnant girl is their mother. The twin /( clone) was isolated at birth, thus no name. While Koo Ja Yoon was subjected to experimentation.

Koo Ja Yoon, needs her twin to find their mother, (who apparently is being held in stasis,), in order to get a bone marrow transplant and cure her of needing the serum.

The other characters seem to be experiments by HQ with different levels of abilities.

The Chief and sidekick appear to be unauthorized experiments by Dr. Baek.

Hopefully everything will be clearer and all tied up in the third film.

After a very long waiting and anticipation, finally I got the chance to see this movie. And what a huge disappointment it was! The new characters were boring and very much stereotype, far worse than the first one. While we were very much entertained by the friendship between Ja Yong (Kim Dami) and Myung Hee (Go Minsi) in the first movie, this second one offered nothing. The main character (The Girl) was a wooden and stupid one. Unlike Ja Yong in the first movie who was cunning and calculated her every moves, The Girl only wanted to eat free pizza, spaghetti and other food. Really boring and annoying! I hope The Witch Part 3 would redeemed this franchise (finger crossed)

I am still looking forward to the trilogy. This is a good film , i hope they bring the creativity in the first film on the third film , more fighting scenes please . This didn't have that much action but the little that was there was amazing.

Had almost the same narrative beats as that of the first one and also was noticeably too generic of a mix of Asian western action flick this time complete with a foreign comic relief character usually seen in asian action movies.

I thought this one was gonna go deep into the narrative along with juicing out that scifi elements of it to the last drop while also balancing that with thrilling and gory action sequences as I was under the impression that this was going to be the finale based on the hype generating cliffhanger of an ending the first one had but that wasn't the case here.

This one was even more crammed with plethora of new characters and one too many plot points and while most of the characters were like fodders for the new protagonist to feast upon coz of the generic nature of action focused narrative the plot points also didn't hit well and the twists were satisfying if not impressive.

Shin si-ah was likeable and convincing as A1DP and Park eun-bin & Sung yoo-bin were good as the sibling duo while the rest of the supporting characters also played their part in a digestable and non tarnishing manner.

Although I found the mix of handothand/gunplay/slasher action sequences done in a fast paced and dbz esque way to be fun and thrilling along with being delighted for the involvement of more violence and gore I still found the choreography to be kind of messy compared to how grounded and neat the first ones choreography was.

Park hoon-jung here seemed too impatient and overly excited to showcase his witch world, characters and their powers in an even more grander scale so after seeing those final action sequences and the display of immense power of A1dp (which felt like too much of an information) I am extremely curious about how bigger the series concluder may or may not be.

I think that The Other One will kinda end up being the victim of middle child syndrome once the series conclude, for me...if the finale doesn't end up being a disappointment of a series concluder.

6.5/10.