This is an entertaining piece of modern-day fiction that features great CGI, comedy, and drama. The acting is decent. Tae-hyun Ja plays the protagonist and provides the core to the story. Jung-woo Ha as Captain Kangrim, leader of the guardians entrusted to protect and defend Tae-hyun's character is the real hero. He is charismatic, and his talent is not wasted in the movie. Ji-hun Ju's role as the sarcastic Haewonmek is not as effective. While his sarcasm is supposed to provide the humorous foil to Jung-woo Ha's straight character, it makes him come as cold and callous. Hyang-gi Kim is the most sympathetic of characters, and chews every scenery she is in. She portrays her character with the most depth, even if she is not given too much to do. What makes the story interesting is how the life of the protagonist is unfolded as he progresses through each trial, and every detail uncovered is unexpected. This is the strength of Korean storytelling. They come up with many unexpected twists. The fantasy creatures look decent, but it is no Lord of the Rings, and the characters portraying deities look farcical. But probably the movie does not intend to take itself so seriously but it interestingly discusses issues such as life choices, and handles the drama extremely well. There are spectacular fights, and chases reminiscent of The Matrix: with the coat and all but in the end, the movie will leave you satisfied and feel good. I wonder if they have a sequel in the plan.

Everytime I watch an Asian movie my hopes are not too high because I already saw a lot of bad ones, except when it is a Korean movie. Korean movies are definitely the best ones coming from Asia. Yesterday I saw Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them and I was a bit in the fantasy mood so I searched for another fantasy movie and stumbled on this one, Singwa Hamgge or Along With The Gods: The Two Worlds. Well this one is for sure lesser known than the other Oscar nominated one but it's much better. First of all the story is much better, it has some good profound messages in it and makes this story enjoyable to watch. Then you have the special effects and CGI's. Those were just sublime, again much better then in the first movie mentioned. The cast, well I still don't know any by name, but I recognized them from other movies I watched before, they are obviously good Korean actors. Definitely one of the better Korean movies I watched.