Battle rages through Los Angeles as Buraki and his armies march through the city in search of Joun Ji Yoo. Ethan and Sarah are running around trying to figure out what's going on. The military get involved, engaging the armies of Buraki in the streets. They spread wanton destruction without a thought to any civilian casualties. The FBI is also on hand. Somehow they have figured out what Sarah is and are also trying to find her.
That almost makes sense! In all honesty, this movie makes none. From the moment that Robert Forster relates the tale of the Imoogi legend everything just falls apart. At one point Sarah says that she doesn't understand what is going on. Tell me about it. Characters act in a unrealistic fashion. The story is told, but nothing is explained. Characters and creatures appear out of nowhere. Some of the effects are halfway decent, but overall there is nothing to really latch on to.
Bottom line. Unbelievably bad. Still, it is worth watching to make fun of, though I cannot recommend paying to see it in the theater. This is perfect fodder for your Netflix queue, a bunch of friends, and a touch of alcohol. It gets a bonus point for the unintentional comedy.
Not Recommended.
Article comments
1 - Tony Youngq
Your review was right on the money. Mr. Shim felt his script was perfect and made NO CHANGES to his first draft.
He has a huge ego and the mindset of a fifth grader. He has no clue as to what has been happening with the fantasy genre since he was ten years old. (And hey, Godzilla had an anti-nuclear energy message, but I'm sure Shim didn't know that.)
I assisted one of the producers on the earlyy stages of this film. There were more inaccuracies, like a reference to the American Minister of Defense. We DON'T HAVE A MINISTER OF DEFENSE.
The actors tried to correct what they could but there was one error I wished they left in.
Originally the Imoogi destroyed Inglewood, not Silverlake.
I thought this would be unintentionally hilarious, but they didn't want that line to be funny.
Tony Young
2 - Tim bagsic
okay okay, so i made a mistake of watching the movie, I thought it was this big battle of fire breathing dragons vs. humans. What a plot eh? Boy was i wrong, the part where the "father of the boy" left him in the hands of a creepy guy because he could get 1k dollars for his stupid dagger left me with a sour taste in my mouth. I almost want to scream "run kid its MJ" Then robert foster started talking about imoogi. "i honestly thought he was talking about food" Instead of focusing in the romance storyline, i found myself laughing the whole time at the ROBOTIC CGI's and how actors just kept popping in the screen with no provocations. Also why do they keep leaving the cameraman/"token black guy" with the enemies. They did it twice and for some reason he manages to survive and go to work the next morning. It is a highly laughable and it doesn't emulate any real attachment to the storyline. I found that the only thing to keep your sanity while watching this movie is to laugh at the story. One last thing, why oh why is there about half a second pause when the bad guys sword would come out of its hilt, its like they want you to see that the sword is actually extending? In the end this movie is reminiscent of a bad martial arts movie with weird dialog and somewhat bad dubbing. I feel bad for jason behr and robert foster. I hope they read the script before they actually agree'd to the movie. Over all this movie ranks 2nd to the lowest in my list, GIGLI being first. I still wonder if i can get a refund and i could get the 90 minutes of my life back.
3 - Tim
This review and the comments thus far are so on the money. I almost became crosseyed when the old guy started talking to the kid about imoogi-this and imoogi-that. I was thinking the hole time (and I mean "hole" because watching this movie can leave a hole in your brain, it is simply that dumb), "what the eff is he talking about man?". And what was that stuff about "the will of heaven".
This thing was totally incomprehensible. And that's putting it kindly. And I thought of Corman also. Somewhere in the pic, I learned over to my friend and said "this reminds me of Plan 9 from Outer Space".
4 - Umm
Wow. I'm really glad I didn't pay money to see that. Being that it was free, there WERE worse things I could have done with my time. And I've seen worse. I was mildly entertained.
5 - Opinion
I thought the movie was actually pretty good though. It definitely kept me hungry for more, but that's just my opinion.