The Restless (2006)

This is one of those movies that have splendid settings, beautiful casts, nice effects, awesome wardrobes but draggy storyline and just a so-so love story.

Luckily enough the movie did not manage to send me to Zzzz-land. Yup, though hubby and I yawned again and again through the film, we managed watched it till the end the combo epic of the spiderman-like villian+Storm Warrior wannabe+Lord of the Ring demons+StarWars’ scene.

Will I recommend this movie? If you’re a sageuk fan or fantasy-like fan or love story die hard fan or ghost/demon slayer fan or Kim Tae Hee / Jeong Woo Seong’s fan, do watch BUT lower your expectation. Watch it in HD as well to make sure you enjoy the beautiful scenery because that’s the only thing that manage to get me stay put to watch this till the end. 😦

Review/Synopsis:

Its the story of a YI Kwak (Jeong Woo Seong) who can see demons/ spirits of the dead. However, because of his ability, he caused his fiancee (Kim Tae Hee) died when people accused her of being a witch. Later, YI Kwak was chosen to be one of the royal demon slayer team knwon as the Chuyongdae only to learn that the team also want to fight and change the so-called corrupted world. Since YI Kwak decided not to join the rebellion, he’s the only one whose not killed by the royal army but later to be hunted down as well since he was the Chuyongdae late appointed leader. Injured while seeked for a refuge in an abandoned shrine, he “magically” transferred to the mid-heaven&earth kingdom where he saw his dead fiancee but seemed to lose all her memories on him. It also happened that the dead spirit of his Chuyondae colleague were after his ex-fiancee as well to get the magical stone she appointed with that can give them power to open the gate to the human world and enable them to have revenge for their death and to change the corrupted world *yawn*. YI Kwak pledged to defend his ex-fiancee from whoever tried to kill her this time although its mean to kill his own ex-team mates. Everything end with a disaster for the heroes and heroines but at least the earth and, the middle earth&heaven are safe.