I watched the US remake of this years ago and that was totally crap - I gave it a very rare '1'. But since US remakes of Asian movies are stereotypically that way, I still had high hopes for this movie.
Ngh. While director Kiyoshi Kurosawa got the mood right, it wasn't a particularly scary movie, which is the darnedest thing, since he managed to build up a good amount of tension in some scenes and yet they deflated.
The story is semi-interesting and semi-WTF. Actually, I'm kinda reading the Wiki summary as I'm writing this and it seems a lot more interesting than what came across in the movie - maybe because I got kinda bored and tuned out at some point. I think the problem with having a lot of enervated people with a gloom-and-doom ambiance is that it'll take a lot of skill to not have the movie enervate the audience too, and Kurosawa didn't pull that off, in my opinion.
Ngh. While director Kiyoshi Kurosawa got the mood right, it wasn't a particularly scary movie, which is the darnedest thing, since he managed to build up a good amount of tension in some scenes and yet they deflated.
The story is semi-interesting and semi-WTF. Actually, I'm kinda reading the Wiki summary as I'm writing this and it seems a lot more interesting than what came across in the movie - maybe because I got kinda bored and tuned out at some point. I think the problem with having a lot of enervated people with a gloom-and-doom ambiance is that it'll take a lot of skill to not have the movie enervate the audience too, and Kurosawa didn't pull that off, in my opinion.