You can save yourself at least an hour by turning this movie off (or walking out of a showing) after the first 35 minutes or so. You will have seen the interesting and scary parts by then and it will only take me a few lines to tell you how it ends.
I expected much more from this movie based on the buzz and other reviews. I actually had to turn the movie off because I kept falling asleep after the first half of the movie. In this respect, it reminded me of "God Told Me To". Both movies lose all their steam very quickly and rapidly devolve into confused messes of disparate ideas. Coherency goes out the window, along with any interest you might have in the outcome, and you find that you really don't care what happens. The end of the movie is so clichéd and hackneyed that you will probably think that Ikeda simply walked off the set, turning it over to his third assistant.
This is truly a shame, too, as the first half of the movie shows so much promise. It just goes to show that a single good idea does not carry a film in the absence of a plot.
I expected much more from this movie based on the buzz and other reviews. I actually had to turn the movie off because I kept falling asleep after the first half of the movie. In this respect, it reminded me of "God Told Me To". Both movies lose all their steam very quickly and rapidly devolve into confused messes of disparate ideas. Coherency goes out the window, along with any interest you might have in the outcome, and you find that you really don't care what happens. The end of the movie is so clichéd and hackneyed that you will probably think that Ikeda simply walked off the set, turning it over to his third assistant.
This is truly a shame, too, as the first half of the movie shows so much promise. It just goes to show that a single good idea does not carry a film in the absence of a plot.