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Most of his life, twentysomething Dok-ja (Ahn Hyo-seop) has been a weakling, a loser and a nerd, so much so that he eventually retreated from real life more or less and spent most of his time reading a serialized web novel, the hero of which, Jung-hyuk (Lee Min-ho) he adored because he basically was nothing like Dok-ja himself. However, over the years, the novel lost in popularity and became in fact so niche that Dok-ja became its only reader - only for it to end in a rather disappointing ending. And then one day the events of the novel start happening for real, aliens from outer space pretty much take over earth to make all of humankind ... protagonists in a deadly gameshow that's supposed to show the basest of human instincts for the entertainment of extraterrestrials. Thing is, only Dok-ja knows the novel's video game like rules and thus has an advantage over everyone else. Dok-.ja also meets Jung-hyuk for real, but finds him a selfish prick - and yet he knows he has to save him from a dragon that kills him in the novel, otherwise the world would cease to exist. Jn-hyuk isn't really interested in a nerd's help though, and even feeds him to a sea serpend - something that Dok-ja survives as a strengthened man (earning power points for the serpent's defeat). So Dok-ja and his group - love interest Sang-ah (Chae Seo-bin), feisty Hee-Won (Im Jin-ah), tough military man Ji-hye (Kim Jisoo) and little Gil-yeong (Kwon Eun-Sung) - have to fight themselves through the subway tunnles of the city that are populated by more and more dangerous monsters in increasingly difficult scenarios to not only save their own hides but also keep a man who's not interested in their help from dying ...

Now of course, the premise of this movie is very far-fetched, and while the idea of a guy finding himself in a video game might sound novel, it's not exactly new, and arguably, another South Korean film, The Resurrection of the Little Match Girl, from over 20 years earlier did it better ... but all of this doesn't mean that Omniscient Reader: The Prophecy isn't still a ton of fun as it consists on a barrage of well-executed setpieces, it doesn't shy away with violence and is brim-full of nicely conceived special effects - and still manages to tell its story in a stringent way (even if the film's ultimate message is a bit syroupy). So basically, if you put on this movie, prepare to be splendidly entertained.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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