Right, well the movie's Ukrainian propaganda in the intro of the movie about how Russians soon will be speaking Ukrainian and such was just tasteless and tacky. It started the movie off on a very wrong foot for me. Political and war propaganda such as that doesn't belong in the movie. Whom it was that put it there, writer Yaroslav Voytseshek or director Andriy Kolesnyk, or both, I don't know, and I don't care, but it was a lousy and distasteful thing to put into the intro of a movie.
The storyline in the movie was pretty straightforward and it wasn't actually bad. Yeah, we get it, the Russians are the boogeymen here; writer Yaroslav Voytseshek and director
Andriy Kolesnyk go to great lengths to paint the Russians as the big, bad meanie throughout the course of the movie. But if you can look past the Ukrainian propaganda, then it was actually a fair enough storyline, and proved to be an enjoyable enough movie.
Now, given my very, very limited exposure to Ukrainian cinema, then of course I wasn't familiar with a single actor or actress in the movie. I will say, though, that the acting performances were fair. Nothing outstanding or particularly memorable, though, but definitely fair performances for a movie such as this.
Something did manage to make up for the not-so-subtle-Ukrainian-propaganda was the blood and gore. There was a fair amount of visceral mayhem throughout the course of the movie. And I will say that the effects looked good, and that certainly added something enjoyable in itself to the movie. Yeah, I will admit it, I have always been a gorehound.
Watchable a single time, for sure, but "The Witch: Revenge" is hardly a movie that I will ever return to watch a second time. Nor is it a movie that I would recommend horror fans to go out of their way to get a chance to watch; it just wasn't that special of a horror experience.
My rating of director Andriy Kolesnyk's 2024 movie "The Witch: Revenge" lands on a five out of ten stars. Just a shame that they had to bring political war propaganda into the intro.
