Movie · 2022 · Action, Mystery, Thriller, Science Fiction · 2h 17m · Korean
Curator score: 2.2/10 (30.9K ratings)
The beginning of everything.
Overview
A girl wakes up in a huge secret laboratory, then accidentally meets another girl who is trying to protect her house from a gang. The mystery girl overthrows the gang with her unexpected powers, and laboratory staff set out to find her.
Ratings
Curator score: 2.2/10
IMDb: 6.3/10
Letterboxd: 2.96/5
Rotten Tomatoes: 82%
TMDB: 7.4/10
Director
Park Hoon-jung
Production
Peppermint & Company, Next Entertainment World, Studio & New, Goldmoon Film, Contents Panda, Warner Bros. Korea
Cast
Shin Sia, Park Eun-bin, Seo Eun-soo, Jin Goo, Sung Yoo-bin, Justin John Harvey, Cha Soon-bae, Cho Min-soo, Lee Jong-suk, Kim Da-mi, Chae Seo-an, Chae Won-bin, Seo Yi-ra, Jung Lael, Kim Ki-hae, Jang Jae-young, Chung Ye-jin, Shin Yeon-woo, Kim Eun-yeong, Mowg
Where to watch
Philo, Hi-YAH
Curator Review
Verdict
A flashy, powers-heavy sequel with some satisfying action beats and striking imagery, but it’s also overstuffed, opaque, and less emotionally focused than the first film. Best approached as a world-building sci-fi action ride rather than a cleanly plotted thriller.
Best for
Viewers who like superpowered action and violent set pieces
Fans of Korean genre cinema with a glossy, comic-book edge
People who don’t mind messy mythology if the visuals deliver
Audiences curious about a sequel that expands a strange universe
Skip if
You want a tightly structured, easy-to-follow story
You were hoping for the same tonal balance and momentum as the first film
You dislike exposition-heavy franchise setup
You prefer restrained effects and grounded action
Overview
The Witch Part 2 - The Other One is the kind of sequel that arrives bigger, louder, and more chaotic than its predecessor. It keeps the franchise’s core appeal: a mysterious young woman with terrifying abilities, bursts of brutal action, and a sense that a hidden world is unfolding just beneath the surface. When it locks into those elements, it’s entertaining and often visually sharp.
Worth noting
The problem is that the film keeps widening its scope until the story starts to feel crowded and under-shaped. New characters, factions, and lore pile up faster than the movie can make them feel essential. Instead of the taut, unsettling momentum that made the first film work, this one often plays like a setup chapter stretched to feature length.
Bottom line
Still, there’s enough style, energy, and carnage to make it worthwhile for viewers who enjoy messy franchise-building and power-fantasy action. If you’re here for atmosphere, spectacle, and the promise of a larger universe, it has enough going for it to land as a flawed but watchable follow-up.
Top Letterboxd reviews
Sin ✊🏿 (2.5★) · 273 likes
Ugh. What happened here? Why does it feel like there’s 17429 characters jammed into this mf?! How did something with so much promise end up so gratuitously convoluted, unfocused, and ultimately disappointing?
Given how much I loved pretty much everything about the original, watching this sequel feels like a body snatcher hijacked this project from writer-director Park Hoon-jung. I was convinced that someone else wrote-directed this until seeing the credits.
There’s no way around it: The Other One’s story construction… more
erika (0.5★) · 273 likes
there's a white man instead of wooshik
☆ (2.5★) · 200 likes
messy as hell but beautiful women everywhere
Akshay Kannan (3★) · 107 likes
The Witch part 2 is unfocused and lumpier than its predecessor. This one follows a new protagonist 'cynthia' and her journey.
This one doesn't feel like a sequel, this functions more like a superhero origin/ world building movie (there's also a post credit, so yeah).This movie suffocates the audience with overabundance of information through a series of jump cuts right from the starting moment. After that dumping of exposition you will think it will be essential to some plot point later but that doesn't happen either.Also somehow everyone in this movie knows each other in one way or another.
haley (3.5★) · 104 likes
every death is like watching a mortal kombat fatality and i am absolutely here for it
2010 · Action, Thriller, Crime · 1h 59m · R · Curator 8.1/10 (58.9K ratings) · Where to watch: Amazon Prime Video, fuboTV, Peacock Premium, MUBI, Rakuten Viki, Hi-YAH, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Peacock Premium Plus
A polished, emotional action thriller centered on a dangerous outsider and explosive confrontations.