It's camp, it's stupid, and I love it.
You'll get almost exactly what you're looking for. Resident Evil stupid goodness that has real 'American' named characters and many many twists that just do a lot to you.The choreography is pretty spectacular and honestly the best part of the whole thing, the hand-to-hand fighting was great and had so much action going on. Tyler was a pretty amazing character, and I ended up very much enjoying it just to keep going for him. He makes it very worthwhile if you want anything serious out of it. At the end of the day, though, it's just as campy and silly as the games before it, and you'll have a great time all the same. Random backflips out of nowhere, good characters to enjoy, you'll have a blast.
I have a lot I can say against it also, like the fact that it had *WAY* too many characters than it knew what to do with. A number of them didn't really serve any purpose and it made me quite sad that they didn't do anything with it.
Honestly, don't go in thinking you're going to get something incredibly deep, it'll never be that. Just have fun and watch the fellas beat up zombies.
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It's historical and an absolute must watch for psycological horror fans.
I'm going to keep my review spoiler-free for the reason that you *absolutely* must not have any spoilers going in, it's so much better without, I can't understate that enough.Cure is an absolutely fantastic film, and it's aged incredibly well, despite it being 28 years old as of me writing this. It's shot so spectacularly, there is so much to take in, so much great imagery, it'll be a very good experience.
It's very much for an audience that can go in with an open mind and not expect specific things going in, you need to just let it run its course, and experience it. Make sure you do it in a mind where you can sit down and think about it too, you want to focus on every bit of it you can. I mostly say this because it's a film where you can interpret many different things from it, and you'll want to come to your own conclusion.
The only criticism I would ever give it is that there is a little bit of a lack of a "definitive ending" that one would like, but the way it happens is also satisfying.
I just generally recommend it a lot, and I hope you have as much fun as I did with it.
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It's cheesy, very fever dream like but that's what makes House, House.
I'd expected something else from it, but honestly, I had no idea what I was getting into, and I'm glad for that. It's a perfectly fun watch and you'll have lots of laugh-out-loud moments of slight absurdity (if you're like me anyway). It's very good at doing what it wants to do, which is poking fun at american horror movies and having a bit of fun with it. I slightly wish it did a bit more to conclude it other than just one scene, but it wouldn't feel like such a fever dream if it did. Over all it was a fun ride. I don't think I'll ever find myself rewatching it personally, but I'm sure others will enjoy doing so. Make sure to watch it for yourself. You'll probably have the best experience if you watch it with friends and don't take it seriously. Try it for yourself.-Spoilers beyond this point.
Tons of good practical effects, delivers on a lot of subtle things while also doing the large ones perfectly. The piano eating scene was very legitimately creepy with its tangled limbs, and well worth watching the whole movie for. The special effects done were, unfortunately, funny rather than scary in the modern era, though. I can't quite be sold on obviously painted backgrounds or fake plastic limbs (special shout out to those, they were hilarious). You can still appreciate the craft a lot with just doing it all on film, attempts at greenscreening that, while a bit poor, did make for more action to happen. The acting and other characters kind of didn't really need to be spectacular since the absurd and wild way the story played out was enough, but I can't not mention how grand the aunt's acting was. She did all kinds of small things to really sell it all. Kung Fu was absolutely my favourite. She fought a ghost with bare fists, kicked the cat with just her legs, and she stole the whole show just by doing that. The plot itself, I slightly wish had a little more to it? The teacher really could have had a lot more to do than just turn up, but neither was he the focus. Slightly wasted potential in my view. Overall, I don't feel like I would have changed much of it, though. It had ways to do some things a bit better, but it serves itself well, and it's probably other people's perfect movie, not mine.
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Had a great time with this film, nothing new but absolutely solid and a good watch.
The long and short of it: There's no new ground broken for sure, it's a classic J-Horror movie and you'll get what you ask for. Recommend it for sure though all the same, it's a perfectly good film to enjoy. Might not be scary to everyone, but even though it wasn't I had fun. Worth a watch if you like horror and are okay with gore, recommend that you avoid the trailer, it gives away a sequence that would have done a lot better without watching it to leave it as a surprise (eg me who watched it). Make sure to look for the microwave in the beginning also, very funny completely taped to the wall.Long review into more of the nitty gritty, direct story spoilers avoided:
Its highlights were absolutely the acting, though I can't include the main character in that compliment sadly. I think she was a bit miscast because she doesn't exactly have much face acting behind her. She has 3 expressions max before it's back to default which is a shame because her body and voice acting were good. She did make a good attempt but it was a bit bothersome that she didn't really show much panic when something extreme had happened. Absolutely amazing performances with the rest however, Kazuyo, Shinji, and Yutaro (especially Yutaro, really you could feel the fear that was creeping into him and how terrified he was) being the highlights, stellar performances.
The bloody sequences were done interestingly and, though maybe not unique to the genre, did serve well and were mostly unexpected when they happened. Felt like they shook it up each time and you got more and more progressively violent. The VFX was well done and gave some good visual scares, though the specific eye used gets a bit dull after seeing it over and over again, I wish they varied it a bit more. The scenery has quite a bit to chew on and is shot pretty great most of the time, with some real artistic work done into it, impressive stuff.
Though it's a horror movie, it doesn't quite make you jump out of your seat often. 1 or 2 scares got me but that was it. It was good at setting the dread for the characters involved, but it didn't exactly make me feel much personally. Might be a case-by-case basis however, conclude what you want from it.
A minor annoyance of how perfect they had to make the main character's nails be, they look *too* pristine for the whole movie, but this is just a really small nitpick
The ending was a very good twist honestly and I appreciated what it did. It was surprising and unexpected, leaving you with a good send-off, though I will avoid mentioning how.
In conclusion, I recommend it a lot, please do go watch it if you like j-horror, just don't expect to be terrified by it. It gives a lot else to work with to enjoy otherwise and is a great time to watch especially with friends.
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The most nothing movie one could see.
I don't think I can quite articulate fully how much of a boring film this is except for ironically laughing at some terrible line delivery and bad effects. It made me feel like I wanted to write about how bad it was however so it did *something*.Short review: Don't watch, It's really not worth 1h 40 unless you want background noise that doesn't really matter.
Long review with full movie spoilers: The opening was the coldest of cold, interesting somewhat but it leaves much to be desired. As the movie progresses, however, it just continues to not deliver on any kind of interest except for flakes of what one would *like* to see, but don't get done or thought of.
The whole plot can just be solved by characters just shutting their mouths and not talking, but no we *need* to have these people killed by them being stupid and blurting out her name. Sometimes in films that's fine if you can see some cool effects or other parts of a film to get attached to at least, but this doesn't even deliver on anything at all. Somewhat decent makeup work but that's about as much credit I can give. The exploded eyes don't *quite* look right but it's nothing goofy bad, just that you can kind of tell it's not real.
The director was *not* good so everything else tumbles down with it, for example, usually good actors in other series who are featured in this give some really bad performances. I've seen Inaba Yu give some amazing performances in Sing in Love and other films/series, but it seemed rather obvious he wasn't given all too much to work with or given little to no direction.
The writing was really something else in terms of how much it missed it's own mark of what it tried to be. None of the characters have much behind them except for the reporter and it's a bit ridiculous how little anything happens to any of them of interest. You just get told something happened either to them or about someone, and go " what? " before it moves on and you don't get anything else. Haruo's conflict with his brother gets brought up twice in such small segments, and then we never see or hear of any of that again, it's like that for basically everything that happens. There's even a whole character death that happens that you don't even see and just get told about in passing after the fact, which was stupid? I genuinely had to ask the friend I was watching it with if I hadn't just gone insane and somehow blocked it out of my brain. It's almost like they couldn't get the actor back to do the scene so they had to hurridly pretend it happened.
Generally how the writing went is that it tells a thing to your face, expecting that to be enough to make a character have background, and then it's never spoken of again and neither do characters reflect on it.
As just a personal opinion, I believe it suffers with having too much to get done in it's runtime, something that may have been nicely fixed if they took out the amount of characters involved and simply let the audience have more time to settle into their character. There are gleams of what could have been in there but none of it comes to reality so you're left with a deflated balloon of a movie.
The ending was rubbish, as, quite literally, it just ends with no significance other than the implication that the main guy dies perhaps. Just a cut to credits. Nothing else. The concept of her hitting her head and forgetting the demon's name and what experiences she had with Haruo was good on paper but executed so awkwardly. The taste of the burnt fish was also strange to have been the thing to come back since she's known her own friend who died at the beginning for much longer. Having a callback to the friend would have been nice rather than her promising she'd remember her and then clearly not doing so for the whole rest of the movie's runtime (unless this is a metaphor of some kind in Japan to taste fish or whatever it was, then feel free to correct me and I will amend my review).
In conclusion, It's a mess of a movie and super not worth your time unless you want to see it as mildly ironically entertaining. I had ironic enjoyment out of watching it by giggling about it with a friend of mine, but man that's 1h39m I'm not getting back. Don't bother with it. Stay clear.
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