Good movie but grossly overrated

Brilliant and touching

Awesome Movie

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

(Insert obligatory joke about "Don't look it up")With that out of the way... yes. This looked interesting from the blurb: folk tales and urban legends impinging on modern day filmmakers. Remakes of Asian horror have always been variable quality, from the big budget blockbusters, to the bloodless knockoffs - and ever since the glory days of Ju-on and Ringu, any eastern horror seems to have been considered fair game.There's nothing wrong with the premise, per se: a doomed film shoot has residual psychic leaks and curses that are inflicted on someone wanting to take up the project decades later. Weird things are seen, accidents happen, fair enough. But the execution is lacking more than a firing squad with blank cartridges. The production in general feels like it would be cheap for a TV movie, with some terrible special effects and props. The acting is almost uniformly taken from the "dull surprise" handbook. And the actual storyline?I'm sure it made sense when it was being written. Maybe parts were cut out that were integral to the plot, or to try to make it more mysterious and arty. It didn't work, it just made the entire film a confusing slog. Viewers can get the general ideas, but so many things just come right out of nowhere - demon cancers on people's necks, glowing angel girlfriends who have secretly been dead for months - that more time is spent thinking you missed something than actually watching the movie. Hinting at something in a movie without outright telling, in order to let the viewer draw their own conclusions is admirable, but to just throw in seemingly random scenes or twists just for the sake of it means the conclusions drawn are that the scriptwriter and editor need to be replaced.It's not a total waste of celluloid - some people may enjoy it, by the other reviews some people have. I found it a painful, confusing experience with some parts that could have really played up the creepy aspect (the missing, undeveloped frames for instance) but instead chose to try for bizarre imagery and ridiculously contrived plot devices over substance.

In the Dark Ages, a gypsy woman made a pact with Beng, the gypsy devil, to marry a powerful man; in return, Beng asked her first born child. Her daughter Matya (Zelda Williams ) had the mark of the devil and was killed by the haunted villagers.In 1928, the Hungarian director Bela Olt (Eli Roth) decides to shoot Matya's story with the lead gypsy actress Lila Kis (Rachael Murphy); however, the director, the cast and the crew vanished with the film that has never been seen.In the present days, the discredited medium director Marcus Reed (Reshad Strik) and his producer Josh Petri (Henry Thomas) head to Romania to make a film about Matya's story. Marcus had a breakdown some time ago and now his friend Josh has given the opportunity to return to his promising career. However, the director, cast and crew are haunted in the set by an evil spirit and the survivors drive insane."Don't Look Up" is a terrible film with a messy and incoherent screenplay. The idea of a movie in a movie is not original and I have recently watched the potentially cult "The Hills Run Red" (2009) and the romantic "La Vita Che Vorrei" (2004). But "Don't Look Up" is confused and does not make sense, and my advice to the reader is to not waste your time watching this film. My vote is three.Title (Brazil): "A Semente do Mal" ("The Evil Seed")

I had high hopes for this movie when it said from the people that made The Ring but this movie failed in nearly every way possible, The story makes little to no sense and at the end your wondering what the hell did I just watch and what the heck is happening. The ending is confusing and like the rest of the movie makes no sense, The ghost only appears for about 5 minutes in the film the rest of the attempted scares are just flies, yes you read right lots of flies and a woman can be heard screaming before somebody dies, There are literally no scares in the movie, ONly worthy part of the movie is The close up of the Girls eye and the end when Marcus falls into the curtain and when he uncovers himself the ghost's head is coming out of the floor I like imagery like that. Overall I give the movie a 2/10 because it made no sense, The ghost is only in it for a brief amount of time, It never explains how she became the next Kayako or Samara, I can only assume the devil gave her her powers avoid this movie at all cost.

"Don't Look Up" is a remake of an old Japanese film, following in an almost viral tradition; "The Grudge" and "The Ring" are but two popular titles that have followed this trend. Both are stellar films in their own rights; unfortunately, "Don't Look Up" shows promise only moments before falling flat on its face.From the very beginning of the movie, the viewer is introduced to the significant element: a vengeful spirit seeking to inflict her sorrows on the world. The Romanian Devil Beng, long ago, struck a deal with a woman who would bear this devil's child in exchange for the most powerful man. This would ensure her a life of leisure. It's fairly bread-and-butter as far as backdrop folklore goes, but it sets a solid premise; this is where the solidity ends, as the movie begins to jump... the viewer is treated to an early 20's filming where an actress purportedly "disappears" without a trace. The film was never produced and is never seen. The spirit apparently kills the director of said film, then, and we cut to a man standing in his room, having what can only be described as a seizure. He is apparently capable of seeing apparitions, and writes his sights down for movie plots-- he is a starving-artist director whose odd 'condition' has inhibited his ability to properly shoot a film. He then gets a phone call, apparently to see his sickly (ex, perhaps) girlfriend. She has a vindictive brother who has no love for our director star and tells him to leave his house. Thus the man sets out for Romania to shoot another film based on these otherworldly sights. For those keeping track, at this point, the movie still retains intrigue and a plot that seems to have potential.Plot elements officially lose consistency here. They go to Romania, to the old film studio where the 20's director was killed. And from this studio, there are both strange sounds and awful smells; however, they ignore this and begin shooting. A scene mimics the very first in the movie with the 20's film shooting, and then all hope is lost. The director meets a strange old man with an unsightly growth on his neck who tells him he has been waiting for another to film a movie at the studio. Then, the supposed spirit starts causing wanton death with no real explanation as to why. People get angry and pull a strange hook out of nowhere-- this is a significant element only in that the old man was holding it, and apparently, he was important. Somehow. At this point, the plot and the characters are inexplicably inconsistent; if it is trying to make a knock on the style of "The Grudge," it has missed the critical phase of explanation. There is no talk of the spirit's influence. There is just flies. Lots and lots of flies.At this point, the film has officially stopped making sense. The actress portraying the disappeared actress from the '20s is making her move on the main character, people are still dying at an almost alarming ratio of roughly 1 per every 8 or 9 minutes, and the deaths are still inexplicable, have no allusion or purpose, and just seem to be for the sake of wanton murder. There is a disturbing scene where the main character confronts the spirit, who proceeds to discharge a number of things from her vagina, and he runs. The actress tells him they can spare this girl from her suffering and then the main character's girlfriend comes in from a giant backdrop of glowing white and everything disappears. Someone asks the main character who he's talking to, and he says his girlfriend's name; the reply is simply that she has been dead for a while. It cuts back to him; she's not there. He cries, the police take him away, and the viewer is left wondering, quite frankly, what in the name of Mother Earth just happened. It's revealed that he was hallucinating her all along, but that explains all of five minutes-- if that-- of film. The viewer is left wondering what, why and how the spirit is what it is.In conclusion, "Don't Look Up" isn't necessarily a bad premise; I say this only because I could not grasp the premise fully from the film. There is indeed a spectre, and there is indeed death, but what the relevance is between that, the myth stated at the beginning of the film and the main character, I cannot truly say. However, the operation is awful, the actors as a majority do poorly at their job, and the special effects feel a bit dated to be from 2009. It almost seems as if they had a good film for a rough thirty minutes, and then completed the remainder for homework in a cramped hour in their rooms, under dim lamplight with their sixth can of energy drink in progress. If you didn't pay for it, "Don't Look Up" is an item of mild curiosity. Otherwise, avoid it and rent something else. Anything else in the horror genre ought to be better than this, as few films nowadays lack such basic elements of coherency and continuity.Note: I believe the scenes using the girl's eye are taken directly from "Ringu," the Japanese version of the film "The Ring."