Having been on a Korean film bender lately, I went into Dead Again expecting something in line with the layered storytelling and inventive genre blending that’s made South Korean cinema so exciting in recent years. What surprised me right off the bat, however, was discovering that this supposed Korean mystery-thriller was in fact written and directed by an American, Dave Silberman, who had only a handful of shorts under his belt before jumping into this feature project. That’s not a flaw in itself—cinema is global, after all—but unfortunately, the film doesn’t quite measure up to the high bar set by its Korean contemporaries.