There's something less than noble about that self-important Pastor Park (Lee Jung-jae), a tabloid-worthy cult-buster more motivated by Money than Truth. So it's hard to get on his side early on when you realize his desire to "expose" a small sect is really because they may prove the gateway to a new religious market: Buddhism! That noted, in all fights 'twixt Good and Evil, I'll always choose a morally compromised character over Satan even when, as in Jang Jae-hyun's Svaha: The Sixth Finger, the Dark Force is especially difficult to pin down. Is it someone from the temple, a member of the police force, a religious zealout, or one of two teenage girls who've recently moved back to the neighborhood, with a lot of dogs?
Park has his suspicions but who can he trust? Well, he can definitely rely on sidekick Na-han (Park Jung-min), cheerful deaconess Sim (Hwang Jung-min), and his sister on the force. Outside of that, everyone feels somewhat compromised. That includes the girls' guardians, a tribunal of monks, and nearly the entire police department. (Do they have trust issues with law enforcement in Korea too?) And since Park's potential determination of the legitimacy of this specific spiritual subset may be tied to something truly wicked, I was certainly rooting for him once the stakes had been revealed. Three cheers for Good!
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