Movie Review # 727: The Legend Of Ochi (2025)

And now, we review a film by the name of Legend Of Ochi!

Plot: In a northern village, on the island of Carpathia, a young female farmer named Yuri (Helena Zegel) finds an injured creature called an Ochi one night. Shortly after bonding with the creature, she must take it up to a high place on the mountains to return it to its family, and kind. Can she do so while her psychopathic father (Willem Dafoe), and the rest of her siblings try to hunt it down, and kill it?

Well, I will say this! The landscape, and cinematography was really great. It was also really nice to get to know about the mythical creature known as the Ochi. And yeah, how could you not love the bond between Yuri, and the little Ochi creature that she needed to return to its kind? Additionally, the acting was great, especially from Helena Zegel, and Willem Dafoe. It was also great to see how Yuri was willing to show love, and compassion towards the Ochi, even if nearly everyone in her family wanted to do nothing but annihilate them. So it was definitely a great lesson about love, and compassion, along with learning to not follow mob mentality because of that.

However, this film was definitely decent. I mean it wasn’t bad. Of course, it had quite a few good things to enjoy about it. Still, the film felt more like an Amazing Panda Adventure, or Born To Be Wild type of film, where a human has to get a creature home to its family. Okay, let me clarify, movies like those, Free Willy, and films like those with this type of storyline are almost always really good. On the other hand, however, since we have a mythical type of creature in this case, it would seem as if this film had a little more potential to be better. I mean besides the fact that the Ochi have a hidden place where they live in this film, how does their world work? Why do they come out mainly at night? You know, questions like those. Maybe a critic might be harsh for reasons such as this. Either way, in this case, it seems as if a film like this one seemed to have the potential to be better.

And that’s my review for The Legend Of Ochi. On the one hand, it does have some good things going for it. On the other hand, it would seem that you can tell that in other ways, it could have been better. I would say still see it, but maybe when it’s available On Demand, or someplace like that.

Final Rating: 6.5/10