Great Film overall

Don't listen to the negative reviews

It's complicated... I really like the directing, acting and writing but, there are issues with the way it's shot that I just can't deny. As much as I love the storytelling and the fantastic performance but, there are also certain scenes that didn't need to exist.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Imagine "Silence of the Lambs" remade with Inspector Clouseau as the lead detective -- except the film is supposed to be serious. Because that's what this is -- Japan's dumbest detective on the trail of a gruesome serial killer. You could make a drinking game out this film by taking a drink every time the protagonist lets the killer get away. Wait, that might result in acute alcohol poisoning, so you'd better limit the game to every time the detective falls down in the street.I understand why lazy filmmakers use contrivances to advance the plot, but this is taking it to the extreme.

The movie was an adaptation from manga, so stop compare it to the other older movies. I've been watching a lot of murder serial killer and detective, but this one is good.

First of all, I'm Japanese/American, so there is no language barrier when I watch this; I watch both American/Japanese films.I watched this with my expectations low, and it was what it was...This movie seems like it took every cliché in the book and included it in this film.Clearly the movie is trying to copy the movie "Seven", "Saw", "Scream" (frog mask), "Oldboy"It's just nowhere near the level of the movie "Seven" or "Oldboy". The production value seems high, but the film's flow is quite bad and messy.There's just many cheesy moments like the suspect is nearby, runs away, stays around again, dumb car chases (Hollywood influence.... oh, this film is surprisingly produced by Warner Bros), sappy flashbacks...The villain honestly is not scary and his motives are not interesting. The frog mask guy just comes up really goofier than scary. The movie just always takes the typical cliché easy-way-out than what could have been more shocking and interesting. The final ending abrupt "twist", where they tried to make it seem smart, but it's a bit of a corny ambiguous ending. Well, this film is better than Kiyoshi Kurosawa's "Creepy" film. I agree with the other review, they tried to make it more like a cheesy action blockbuster than a more intellectual suspenseful movie. A normal looking guy being the villain would be much scarier than an over- the-top goofy clown.

Detective Sawamura (an efficient, I-need-a-shower, Shun Oguri) is going through a bad patch: his wife has left him with his son, he more obsessed with his job than his family. And then a serial killer appears: a mysterious person that is offing all the people related with a case where Sawamura's wife was part of. Sawamura will try to catch the killer before he gets to his wife and son."Museum" has an interesting enough idea that could have made for a great mystery, but the director and the plot go for the shock and gore, becoming a poor "Seven" in the process. The plot is simple as they come, with little originality or rhythm and the 'bad guy' is simpler still, with no deep or interest. It is your average 'I-have-decided- to-kill-people-just-because' character. The movie does a poor job in making the proceedings or the characters very interesting and the actors struggle with the material.If "Museum" had gone for mood and atmosphere, with mysteries around every corner, it could have been a great movie. It ends being a cheap action movie, with little to offer to the viewer apart from a dark and gritty world.