![]() There’s plenty of style on display throughout The Divine Fury, especially whenever the action shifts to the villain’s John Wick-ian hideout, but very little action or fun. On paper, The Divine Fury sounds like an absolute blast, but writer-director Kim Joo-Hwan (who made the decent action thriller Midnight Runners a few years ago) wants to take his material mostly at face value. The Dark Bishop, who’s known for possessing people from afar and then murdering his hosts after exorcisms so they won’t talk, could clearly use someone as volatile as Yong-hoo on his side, but the young man hesitantly chooses to align himself with the priest when he discovers that his bleeding hand has demon killing abilities. Father Ahn has his hands full, however, and he’s in Seoul to investigate an alarming and increasingly powerful number of demonic possessions that are the handiwork of a villain known as The Dark Bishop (Woo Do-Hwan). He’s told the only man who might be able to help him is Father Ahn (Ahn Sung-Ki), a priest on loan from Catholisicm’s main headquarters. After doctors can’t seem to help him, the doubting Thomas begrudgingly seeks out spiritual answers. One night on a flight back to Seoul from a bout in Los Angeles, Yong-hoo’s hand starts mysteriously bleeding and it won’t stop. ![]() Since the death of his devout policeman father at the hands of a maniac who blew through a sobriety checkpoint, Yong-hoo has held a grudge against the father, son, and holy spirit, and the very sight of a cross tattooed on an opponent is enough to send him into a blind rage. ![]() Yong-hoo (Park Seo-joon), who goes by the in-ring nickname “The Grim Reaper,” is an internationally renowned, respected, and feared fighter. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. Instead of playing such a ripe premise for camp value, The Divine Fury takes itself pretty seriously. I can’t tell because I don’t know when you’re reading this, but I doubt that you stopped me from explaining to you the overall plot of the Korean thriller The Divine Fury, which takes its admittedly awesome high concept plot and runs in a direction that most viewers won’t expect. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: a successful and ruthless mixed martial arts champion who holds a grudge against God for taking the life of his father starts developing stigmata on his hands and teams up with a grizzled veteran priest from The Vatican to put an end to a recent rash of demonic possessions. ![]()
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