The Divine Fury

Male Lead: Park Seo Jun
Female Lead: –
Secondary Lead: Ahn Sung Ki, Woo Do Hwan
Also Starring: Park Ji Hyun
Year Released: 2019
Genre: Supernatural, Drama
Country: Korea
Where I Watched It: Viki
Watched It For: Park Seo Jun, Woo Do Hwan

Losing both of his parents at a young age, Yong Hoo (Park Seo Joon), has spent his entire life resenting God for his unwillingness to save the people he loved most in this world. Growing up without faith or a family, Yong Hoo has dedicated himself to one thing, and one thing only: becoming the best MMA fighter in the world.

Twenty years later, Yong Hoo has become just that. After an intense fight in the States, Yong Hoo makes his way back home, using the long flight back to Korea as a chance to get some much-needed rest. But his sleep is anything but peaceful. Waking up from one hellish nightmare, Yong Hoo finds he now bears an unusual affliction: a stigmata. With wounds on his hands which only get worse as time passes and a never-ending string of horrific nightmares, Yong Hoo soon finds himself in a place of utter desperation. Not knowing what else to do, Yong Hoo seeks the advice of doctors and shamans, but to no avail. With very few options before him, Yong Hoo turns to the one place he has spent his entire life avoiding: the church.

Seeking the help of Father Ahn (Ahn Sung Ki), Yong Hoo quickly learns that his afflictions are not of the world. Suddenly forced to accept the fact that the world is full of unspeakable horrors, Yong Hoo has very few options before him. As evil begins to close in around them, Yong Hoo and Father Ahn team up to wage war against the demons who seek to destroy all that is good in the world.

A thrilling supernatural battle of good versus evil, “The Divine Fury” is a 2019 action horror film directed by Kim Joo Hwan.

This week kicks off Park Seo Jun week because both reviews that I have written for this week feature shows and movies that star my main boo thang. In this movie, Park Seo Jun plays an MMA fighter who has rejected God from his life ever since God didn’t save his parents when he was young. When he becomes cursed with a stigmata, nightmares plague him and after exhausting all of his choices trying to get help, he turns to the one place he didn’t think he’d ever return to…the Church.

So our main character, Yong Hoo spends the course of the movie trying to come to grips with everything going on and fixing it. While trying to help himself, he gets recruited into helping others, who are battling the same things he’s battling, who aren’t as strong as he is. He doesn’t believe in God and he’s got no faith in the Priest that he goes to for help in trying to get rid of the wounds on his hands from the stigmata but he’s out of options and it looks like exorcism is the only way to go. Seeing him struggle with his beliefs and then seeing him battle the need to do right by these people who so obviously needed his help made for an interesting movie. I’ve seen Park Seo Jun play in many different roles and he handles each of them really well and it wasn’t any different in this movie. He’s a great actor and he conveys Yong Hoo’s struggles in this movie in a way that had me invested in him from the very beginning.

Woo Do Hwan played his villainous character perfectly too. I wanted to knee him in the balls so many different times and I was happily rooting against him so it was a lot of fun hating him when I’m so used to loving him. There were times when he would do his little evil shit in this movie that I would cringe because..yuck but alls well that ends well, right? This movie ended the way that I was hoping it would so I’m a happy camper.

This movie isn’t the perfect horror movie or the perfect exorcism movie but it was great for the mood that I was in and there really isn’t much that Park Seo Jun can do that I’m not completely on board with. So this review comes to you with some bias because I love me some Seo Jun. 🙂 Still, it’s an enjoyable movie and I’m not at all mad that I watched it.

Final Rating

4 out of 5