It's the rare genre anthology film that satisfies entirely; at best, we can usually hope for a couple great stories amid the near-misses in any given collection of short stories. Many, however, don't even achieve that, and the South Korean effort
Doomsday Book falls in with that large crowd of mostly unsatisfying story collections. Directed by
Yim Pil-sung (
Hansel & Gretel) and
Kim Jee-woon (
I Saw the Devil;
The Good, the Bad, ...