The Witch: Part 2 (2022)

Un vent de déjà-vu soufflé par une nouvelle héroïne !

Bon... je vais être honnête d'entrée 😅. J'étais super curieuse et impatiente de voir la suite du premier volet que j'avais beaucoup aimé ! Du coup, en lançant The Witch Part 2, je pensais retrouver la vibe directe du premier... et franchement, j'ai été décontenancée... 😵‍💫

Déjà, grosse surprise : Kim Da-mi, notre héroïne iconique, est là... mais seulement en guest. Autant dire que ça m'a laissée un peu perplexe. 😭 J'avais tellement envie de continuer son histoire !
À la place, on suit une nouvelle héroïne, dans un schéma qui ressemble énormément au premier film 🧬
" Une fille aux capacités spéciales, des méchants pas très futés, des scènes d’action bien chorégraphiées... rien de vraiment neuf sous le soleil."

Cela dit, je ne me suis pas ennuyée pendant le visionnage 😌. Le film reste dynamique, l'action est efficace, et les acteurs de ce deuxième volet font le job. Ils sont loin d'être mauvais, au contraire, certaines scènes sont même bien portées émotionnellement ! 🔥

Mais clairement, j'aurais aimé qu'on poursuive directement avec Kim Da-mi. C’est un peu frustrant d'avoir un "nouveau départ" au lieu d’une vraie suite 😕 La sensation de déjà-vu est assez présente, et à certains moments, j'ai eu l'impression de revoir une version remixée du premier film.

Bref, The Witch Part 2 reste un bon divertissement si on ne cherche pas trop à comparer avec son grand frère. 🎬 Il pose des bases pour un univers plus large, mais il manque un petit quelque chose pour vraiment décoller...

Maintenant, j'attends de voir ce qu'ils vont faire avec la 3e partie 🤞🏻. J'espère vraiment qu'on retrouvera toute la puissance qu'on avait adoré dans le 1 !

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The Witch Without A Twist

I am a fan of the The Witch Pt. 1 so I have been waiting the sequel for years. I am happy I finally had a chance to watch it on big screen! I followed the production journey and as the team had a copyright issue with their previous film distributor ( Warner Bros. Korea ), they had to butcher up their original The Witch stories with Jayoon as main character. Hence why I lowered my expectation for this part 2.

First of all, story wise. They basically have almost showed everything in the trailer except the ending. It is those common stories of lab victim run away, find good ally, enemies catch them, but they win after their loved one got hurt. The acting wasn't my taste, instead of embracing the characters personalities- some of their acting feels staged to me. They tried so hard to look cool. There are english dialogue in it, but it sounds so awkward. I'm sorry I am not really familiar with chinese language so I couldnt judge it. Positive side, I like a lot how they open the story and I didn't expect them to start it like that. The unique "countrified" vibe is shown again in it. The opening and the ending would be a main key for the whole franchise. Please stay until after credit, because they show post credit scenes like those marvel movies!

They casted a ton of people for side characters and cameos but they are all like a copy to each other. I was thinking "Is it on purpose they look similiar as it is a cloning stories?". I also feel like there are quite a lot unnecessary scenes, with the jokes and comedic-like scenes. I wish them to show more the bonding between "The Girl" and Kyung Hee-Dae Gil sibling. That is what I have been waiting as I read the director explaining the differences between her and previous witch, Jayoon.

I have to be honest, I am kinda disappointed with the characters building for the new witch. The director went with repeated heroine route we could find in those human experiment stories. Emotionless, no personality ( yet ), fascinated to outside world like a baby bird, and once again overpowered. But after watching, I do feel curious how he would come up with the next part and how he build her character in the future. "The Girl" is still like a white paper to me.

Action Sequences. There are quite a lot of cool awesome battle scenes and it still has that anime-like battle touch in it. They definitely improved it with their big budget. There is one fight with beautiful billboard lighting, and that is my favorite one. Unfortunately, if you are a slow watcher, you would be troubled with pt 2 fighting style because all the characters are so powerful and their fighting is so fast- blip blip - shoot - blip - slash neck - that is my description. Warning, the rating is 18+ so the killing wound part is quite explicit.

Overall, I gave it a 7.5. I think new audiences would enjoy it so much, but the previous part 1 fans like me- would be in love and hate relationship with the sequel.

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