The director, Yong-hwa Kim, is not good at story-building for sure. The movie's technical aspect is applaudable. However, 'Along with the Gods: The Last 49 Days' fails again to build a cohesive narrative after 'Along with the Gods: The Two Worlds'. There are three branches to the whole plot: 1) Sang-ju, grandpa, and grandson trying to survive from redevelopment demolition, 2) Three officials' entangled history, and 3) Su-hong's 49-days trials. It jumps around among these three sporadically and hastily. When one story is about to develop, and the audience starts immersing themselves, the movie flips the page and jumps to the next one, turning off any concentration and interest left in the viewers. The story is so crude and slow-paced that I figured out the twist at the ending halfway through.
Theme of the film is forgiveness, and it also tries to expose problems of urban renewal. However, I see that it touches on the subject but fails to deliver or dig deeper. Dialogues are supposed to be funny, but they fail as well because I can see the writer is trying too hard to make it funny that it's not at all funny.
Jurassic World and Pinocchio parts are just laughable. The first movie was praised for originality rooted in Korean folktales, and the second movie throws all that away and even copies Hollywood so bluntly and bodaciously.
Theme of the film is forgiveness, and it also tries to expose problems of urban renewal. However, I see that it touches on the subject but fails to deliver or dig deeper. Dialogues are supposed to be funny, but they fail as well because I can see the writer is trying too hard to make it funny that it's not at all funny.
Jurassic World and Pinocchio parts are just laughable. The first movie was praised for originality rooted in Korean folktales, and the second movie throws all that away and even copies Hollywood so bluntly and bodaciously.