Along With the Gods: The Last 49 Days is an extended play on the first film. This is actually apart of the first film but the film was too long to release as a full feature film. Thus, The Last 49 Days was presented as a kind of sequel without being a sequel. If that makes any sense. The film was a huge success like the first film because of the huge fanbase of the webtoon that both films too inspiration from. I wrote a post about the first film and nothing has really changed in the credits of the cast or director. Except Ma Dong Seok was added to the cast, plus Kim Dong Wook has a bigger role than he did in the first half.
The Angels of death lead the villain of the first film through the stages of hell and split up in order to help another God while finding their memories of when they were humans…
The Last 49 Days is similar to the baby that you wish you never had but you're forced to look it in the face because you chose to spend the night with a girl unprotected. You wish that you could give the baby away but it's your flesh and blood so you take responsibility for your actions. Along With The Gods was a good film with great action and a well thought out story for rememberable characters. 49 Days carry over these some traits since it's technically the same film, however these things that made the first part great are blurred into a mess when the processor tries to be more like other films in order to force us to feel more emotions than we need to. The film as a whole trips over it's self when it doesn't believe in the wonderful job the first few hours did hooking us. I don't understand why the director and script writer didn't have more confidence in just keeping the whole project in the same flow of plot. It would have worked amazingly for Along With The Gods to just keep doing the same sort of plot. Angels of death taking souls through different stages of hell was very compelling by it's self. The background about the Angels trying to find their pasts was the cherry on top of an already well formulated ice cream sundae. This film splits up the main characters. Two angels basically play babysitting duty while the other leads the soul through the stages of Hell. You can guess which part of the plot is the most interesting. We get a good opener since it's right where the first part ended. The Last 49 Days is missing that exciting spark that made Along With The Gods a good film. I believe a lot of us could have done without this as a film. In fact, making it into a couple of deleted scenes would have been a fun idea for some special features on the DVD/Blu-Ray. I would have liked a choice on whether I wanted to accept this film as apart of the story or not. Now I'm forced to except it and it ruined the rave review I gave for the first part. The Last 49 Days isn't as good but you can watch it just to see more of the story.
Kim Dong Wook was a fun character that showed a fun side of himself as he went of his journey with Ha jung Woo's character. Their scenes are the best part of this film. The rest of the acting comes off like a family K-drama. I could have done without the soiling of the greatness of the acting in the first part. Ma Dong Seok's character was hyped up too much. I was excited to see him at the end of the first part. He didn't add much too the story in my opinion. Even if he was in the original Web cartoon.
The last 49 Days continues to get the special effects of the film right. They're still very well done and look amazing. The settings as well as the monsters are up to pair with Hollywood CGI. That tells you something about how hard the people worked on this film. If only they had changed up the second half a little bit.
Bottomline is that Along With The Gods: The Last 49 Days was a bit of a disappointment. The film makes simple mistakes that were avoided a few hours before in the same movie. I kind of choose to forget the this "extended cut" exists because it should have never been a stand alone film to began with.
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