Omniscient Reader: The Prophecy

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I believe that director should be fired because this is the worst movie of all time. The original story is very interesting with all those unique setting. They changed like 98% of the original plot, they changed the personality of every single character. Now this movie is just your generic lame apocalypse story, nonsense plot, boring characters. Not worth watching. Dont waste your time and money.

You can change details in an adaptation...but not the heart of the story. This movie feels like it was made by someone who didn't understand what made the original good. It's honestly frustrating how much potential this movie had and how badly it was handled. The story feels like a random action movie with the ORV name slapped on. So many important details were changed or ignored, and the characters barely resemble their original versions. Not just in looks but in personality and purpose. Even when the cast seems passionate, the direction clearly doesn't care about staying true to the heart of the story. It feels more like a rewrite than a real adaptation, and not a good one.

They said this was an adaptation,. But the characters from the original novel were misrepresented, and the story's emotional core was stripped away. Let me tell you Three ways this movie butchered the novel it adapted:

1.) Mischaracterize:

Kim Dokja, the protagonist was made as a superhero who saves others. He was never a savior. He didn't love the world he loved a few people in it, and that was enough. The live action twists him into a cliché hero, ignoring the nuance that made this story powerful.

Yoo Sanggah was changed to become a healer in this movie. She wasn't written to be a healer. She was a fighter, strong, assertive, and deeply grounded in her own agency. Changing her into a passive support role erases everything she stood for. It reduces her to a stereotype she was created to break.

2.) Misrepresent - They took a story about personal pain and chosen bonds, and turned it into a generic save-the-world action flick instead.

3.) Mishandle - They mishandled the CGI so badly, it felt rushed and unpolished like a low-budget green screen project rather than a world-ending scenario.

But even if, for argument's sake, this wasn't an adaptation, the film would still fall flat. CGI is painfully bad, with green screen effects that look straight out of a low-budget fan film. The system texts, which should've mimicked a game-like interface, came off more like karaoke subtitles. And the script? Awkward, stilted, and unnatural. The dialogue lacks rhythm, the pacing drags, and emotional scenes feel forced. Even without comparing it to the source material, this movie would still struggle to stand on its own.

This is a new account I created to separate this review from my main account after seeing all these fiery reviews.

I haven't read much of the original novel or the manhwa, so I don't know much about the original plotline. I know a couple actors- Lee Minho, Nana, Jisoo, and I'd watched Hyo-seop's last movie, KPop Demon Hunters. Besides that, I know next to nothing about the production of this movie or the original IP.

Visually? It's so bad it confuses me. The lighting looks as if someone shone a flashlight in frame because the main lights broke. Many scenes are shot directly facing the character, framing them in the middle of the screen, making for an awful composition. The CGI and special effects look incredibly out of place. Not even in the way CGI will typically look out of place in live action- it looks especially bad. Train to Busan from years ago had better CGI than this. Surely they haven't been working on this movie for that long, have they?

I don't have a lot of notes concerning the acting. It's not spectacular- line delivery from Jisoo and Hyo-seop is a tad awkward, but negligible- but it's not the worst I've seen. It certainly isn't any of these actors' magnum opus.

The plot is incredibly confusing. There's a large world, that I'm aware of, but even with the background knowledge I'd had from the first few chapters of the novel and manhwa, it was hard to follow. The most you can digest is that the apocalypse is happening- of which originated from a novel- but otherwise, nothing else is explained. Constellations? Coins? Skills? I shudder at the thought of someone completely in the dark trying to understand this.

The plot is alright. A standard post-apocalyptic fantasy with transmigration elements. The fights are choreographed fine- again, not the best I've seen in film -and you can enjoy some flashy special effects.

A minor thing, but the sound mixing was a bit strange. It might have been a personal problem, but the dialogue was washed out at times.

Overall, it's an alright movie. If you've read any of the original source material, it will be easier to understand, but from what I've seen, it's not recommended. I wouldn't watch it again. It seems a bit like a movie to put on while you do chores or homework. I certainly wouldn't see it in theaters.

Alright as a novel reader, Im dissapointed in this Live Action. No because wdym the mc(Kim Dokja) HATES TWSA?? When that novel literally saved him?!?! And made Yoo Sangah a healer when she hates to be one of those. Im not hating on the cast, its eh ok but the HUGE MISCHARACTERIZATION is not it yknow? They are guns but atleast they are still swords, but is the budget really that low?? I mean bihyung?? THATS NOT MY BRO BIHYUNG..... I would have rate this more because they brought back the swords but quickly change when saw YSA as a healer, i just can't please don't do this to my gurl YSA. And the Kdj's fav character is Heewon???? Danm no way in fkin duck, i just can't.