The Divine Fury

What surprises there are are mostly of the pleasant variety, starting with the tone of intelligent sincerity alongside the glowing red pupils and projectile vomiting.

More care was seemingly put into the lighting than the scripting of scenes.

At over two hours, all this takes far too long, frittering away the frights and fun in too much somberly nonsensical dialogue and incongruous maudlin moments.

A leaden good-vs-evil tale that takes issues of faith very, very seriously but fails to make K.O.-ing the Devil look the least bit fun.

"The Divine Fury" is more impressive than substantial, but Kim Joo-hwan has managed to combine all those elements in a package that somewhat works, at least in terms of entertainment.

The Divine Fury manages to take cliches and spin genre gold out of them.

What makes the film stand out is that it works on both a theological level and a secular, psychological one, with each bolstering the other in a way few films attempt.

If you haven't been waiting for a South Korean MMA exorcism movie, "The Divine Fury" is here to tell you to get your priorities in order.

The Divine Fury is filled with ideas and themes it has no real Intention of exploring. Not even divine intervention can save this film.

Instead of playing such a ripe premise for camp value, The Divine Fury takes itself pretty seriously. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.