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This is a movie that thinks it's quirky, but isn't nearly quirky enough to make up for its complete lack of charm. If a quirky Miike-led musical hybrid flick is what you're craving, you're better off checking out Happiness of the Katakuris than this overlong snoozefest. I'm unfamiliar with the manga on which this was based, but in many ways this film seems to be a piss-take on the entire shonen delinquent genre, and possibly could have worked as a parody of the genre's tropes. But as over-the-top and ridiculous as some scenes may be, the film simply isn't over-the-top ENOUGH to be anything other than boring.

Ugh. That was a slog. The saving grace of the TV series is that it comes in 20-minute installments. 2+ hours of this movie was a chore to sit through.

Hmm...reading the comments, I seem to not just be in the minority, I may well be the ONLY person who thought this series was better than DH1. It wasn't a classic or anything, but neither was the first series. I watched them both back to back and while there are some things that DH1 does better, I found myself overall more entertained by DH2. Glad I didn't skip it based on the reviews here.

This movie is soooo awful. The entire plot is nonsensical and none of the characters behave reasonably or logically. I've certainly seen worse MADE movies than this one, but it's hard to think of one with a more contrived and horribly conceived plot. The entire things seems like it was written by a (not particularly talented) 14 year old in a creative writing class. Dumb, dumb, dumb.

This is art house cinema, so if that's your thing, you might like it. I found it fairly dull, and the two main characters were both too damaged for me to become invested in their fates.

Wonderful film. I went into it knowing literally nothing about it but the title, and ended up enjoying it more than anything I've seen come out of Japan in ages.

Holy cow this was terrible. Only 70 minutes long, and yet even so, almost nothing happens. You could watch this at 2x speed and still feel like it was dragging.

Good lord. The only thing worse than this movie was the acting in it.

This was well-shot, but boy, did it drag a bit too much for my tastes. I feel like I spent as much time checking my watch as I did watching the movie.

First of all, this is a comment section, not a review. I'm not sure why my opinion has hurt your feelings to the point that you've decided to continue to personally attack me. I'm very sorry that my opinion is so upsetting to you. It actually IS my opinion that it's one of the worst movies I've ever seen. But that doesn't mean that I think other people should agree with me. You're right - my opinion that it's terrible doesn't make it bad. And your opinion that the movie flew over my head doesn't make it true. Accusing people with different opinions of being stupid is uncalled for.

And btw, it sounds like you're significantly younger than me, but I'm old enough to have grown up decades before there was ANY CGI, so I assure you that I'm not intolerant of primitive technology in films. I believe the entirely green-screened look of this movie was a stylistic choice, perhaps made as a compromise due to limited budget/technology. But I found it aesthetically unpleasant.

I didn't find the story interesting, either, but I wasn't writing a review, so there was no need to address every aspect of the film in my comment. Again, it was just my opinion - I've seen professional reviews which raved about the same things I found to be a turn-off. I would never accuse those reviewers of "not getting it" - it's just that different people like different things. And honestly, no one need specific reasons for liking or disliking any kind of art. You either like it or you don't. There's no need to try to prove an opinion as if it was a truth.

Final word - if anyone out there has an interest in seeing this movie - by all means, do so. You might like it, and you might not. Nothing I or anyone else says about it will or should change that. Art is subjective, so don't let anyone ever tell you your opinion isn't valid.

No worries. I realize that the movie has fans. Their opinions and yours are 100% valid, but so is mine. I won't accuse someone with a different opinion from my own who likes the movie of not understanding it, and neither should you.

I absolutely do not understand the praise this movie has received. This is probably one of the worst films I've ever seen. And I'm even more confused by the praise for the look of the film. The entire movie consists of actors shot on green-screen, which is replaced with incredibly (purposefully?) bad CGI, giving the entire film the look of an FMV cut-scene from a video game made in 1996. Just, no.

Hmm...well, it isn't particularly scary, but that's the norm for a Ju-On movie. However, this is the 9th film in the series (including the American trilogy), and it's the first one that wasn't at all boring. So I guess that makes it the best so far? Parts of this movie are darker than anything in the series thus far, though one particularly silly visual misstep almost ruins the mood (I'm looking at you, basketball). Worth a watch.

Yet another completely un-scary entry in this series. At least it's only an hour long.

Better than the first, but still not scary. The problem, I think, is the fact that the faces of the actors playing the ghosts are usually fully lit and exposed. When a ghost appears as a shadow or is otherwise obscured, it can seem a little creepy, but once it comes into focus, it's just becomes an actor in bad makeup and is hard to take seriously.

I'm not sure who wrote the description of this film on the IMDb, but it's pretty much 100% inaccurate. For that matter, the title of the film is completely misleading as there isn't an office lady in sight.

It seems that this is a film one needs to see as a child in order to be frightened by it. Seeing it for the first time as an adult, all I can say is I found it incredibly boring.

This was a chore to watch. There were flashes of entertaining quirkiness here and there, but overall the film is tedious and confusing.

This movie makes the same mistake that I've seen time and time again in "dark" Japanese storytelling - it presents a tale populated entirely by cold, amoralistic nihilists who do horrible things because it amuses them to do so, failing to give us any characters to root for or sympathize with, and so the horrible actions of the antagonists have less impact than they should. In a world as uncaring as the one presented here, sociopathic behavior is the norm, and is hardly anything to be surprised or appalled by. Thus by trying so hard to be dark and edgy, the plot ends up simply being overly silly, almost absurd.

Tried watching this but gave up. The subs are...not good. Made watching a chore.