2/5 stars
Since transitioning from animation to live action, Korean writer-director Yeon Sang-ho has struggled to recapture the success of his barnstorming breakout hit, the action-packed zombie thriller Train to Busan.
He has worked predominantly with Netflix in the years since, on a string of horror-infused series (Hellbound, Parasyte: The Grey) and science fiction films (Psychokinesis, Jung_E), yet nothing has succeeded in recapturing the earlier filmโs assured balance of social commentary and visceral thrills.
Yeonโs latest offering, Revelations, is adapted from a 2022 comic book he penned with Choi Gyu-seok.
It focuses on an ambitious pastor, Sung (played by Ryu Jun-yeol), who takes justice into his own hands when he encounters a recently released sex offender, Kwon (Shin Min-jae), shortly before his own daughter goes missing.
Emboldened by what he believes to be divine intervention, Sung goes after Kwon with predictably disastrous results.