![]() ![]() Both of them seem to be troubled by a new player in town as neither of them is behind the attack on the labs recently. Opposite them is another group of super human creations known headed up by Jang (Lee Jong-suk) who has his own motivations for hunting down Ja-yoon. ![]() Instead of being nameless faces and doctors, the film dives head first into The Ark Lab creators and their goals for creating the witches. The Other One opens up the entire witchy world by introducing us to the shadowy agencies that seem to be behind it all. The first film was very much a closed down, angsty and tightly driven story about a Ja-yoon and her struggle to stay away from some shadowy agency that had created her. Instead it simply allows director/writer Park Hoon-jung to open up the world of Witches and sort of fill things out for us. The end result, a gigantic battle of the various super powered augments all vying for our amnesiac Girl’s capture or death.Īs I said, I was actually expecting for The Witch 2: The Other One to be a direct sequel to The Witch: Subversion in narrative unfolding. Baek has sent to retrieve Girl, as well as the same roving batch of 4 witches that nearly killed Ja-yoon in the first movie. A move with not only brings down the ire of the mobsters wanting to take said farm, but draws the attention of a pair of hired goons that Dr. Naturally Girl’s powers comes to light and she lays waste to the gangsters attempting to take the fram away from Khung-hee and Dae-gil. Girl is similar to Ja-yoon in that she has no memories of where she came from, but gets picked up by a young pair of farmers named Khung-hee (Park Eun-bin) and her younger brother Dae-gil (Sung Yoo-bin) who are under attack from gangsters. Baek mentions that Ja-yoon had come and vanished just a couple of months ago (the finale of the first movie), only for us to be thrust head first into the plight of this new witch (hereafter known as Girl). The film clues you in to the fact that we’re only a couple months after the events of the first movie, as Dr. And just like Ja-Yoon, has to be found at ALL costs. This “one” happens to be a young unnamed witch (played by Cynthia) of immeasurable power taken from that girl at the beginning of the movie. Baek (Min-soo Jo) narrating to the agent in charge of bringing Ja-yoon in during the first film that the Ark Lab (and several others) have been hit with all the witch test subjects killed except for one. The film opens up with a scene where a young girl is kidnapped from a bus and taken to a lab where she will give birth to twins (not hard to see where the film is going in that respect), only to fast forward another decade to Dr. Instead we have a side quest film that delves into another witch that “seems” to be unrelated. I was actually expecting The Witch 2: The Other One to be a direct sequel to the first, with Ja-yoon once more being the main character. Subversion left us with a cliffhanger where Ja-yoon realizes that there is another one with her incredible powers out there, and a sister at that. The film was a gloriously violent sci-fi/action movie and one that let me on pins and needles when she confronted the Dr. She was of course hunted down by the rest of her kind under the guise of bringing her back into the fold, while Ja-yoon slowly regained her memories and abilities. The film revolved around a young girl named Ja-yoon (Kim Da-mi) who turned out to be one of these “witches”, just with amnesia when she escaped from the Ark Lab 10 years ago. It was a fantastically gory mess of a film that introduced us to a world where genetic manipulation had created humans with fantastic telekinetic powers known as “witches”. ![]() I remember waiting for YEARS for a domestic release of 2018’s The Witch: Subversion.
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