Film Perfection

It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

To start with, i would like to say something about Asian horror movies in general. Like the westerns horror culture; the Asians got their own style on their horrors; as we have seen under the years which has passed; Long hair, cellphones, nails, small kid (almost always boys) and girls dressed in white. White means "Death" in many Asian cultures, as Black in our culture often refers to death.In Western we got serial killers that rapes women or killers that enjoy killing teenagers after their beer-party mixed with characters that looks like been picked directly from a Play Boy paper. So there's two stereotypes in the Horror movie culture we have on both side of the globe.This particular move we're gonna talk about, is indeed a bit of a Asian stereotype movie - but it also have some parts that makes it a bit unusual. Many views here has judge it as a bad movie, which i think could be a bit of a miss-leading and unfair. The plot of this movie wasn't all about to scare the soul out of your body; it had a undergoing line in it's story; friendship. By that i don't mean that kind of friendship that all Asian horror movies seem to love to show up; a bunch of kids that bullying one other; or fails the other one. This showed a lot of times, the great fear of loosing one you keep very close to the heart; and also how someone want to become friend and actually succeed - if only for a short time. That is actually very rare in Asian horror movies. And there between all the ghostlike things happens. The only thing that really destroyed the movie was when Kanae died - in order to save Nana's life from the hunted tunnel. However; that "mistake" to brag Kanae her life by a very stupid accident, Director Takeshi Furusawa made up well for at the very end of the movie. By shutting down the sound and just let the moment go between Kanae and Nana gave me creeps - not of fear, but of sympathy for real friendship. For me, that made the whole movie. As a horror movie, it didn't really worked. I got the feeling of watching a TV-series, and that Takeshi Furusawa was a bit of a "beginner" when it comes to real acting. The CGI could have been better. But, the idea behind the story was good - even better than One Missed Call. Everyone says it's a regular Japanese horror movie, but if you look at the details, it isn't a very regular story after all. First of all, almost whole movie, was filmed inside or around a train station. It wasn't that much screaming and spacey sounds, or strange "burps" from ghosts. No ghost coming out from TVs. Or hair that grows with the speed of light. Or for that matter; small white painted boys/girls; it was actually very sparse with that in this movie. Takeshi Furusawa has seen lot of movies and based the design on this movie from that; but he got a story that after a bit of polishing and construction could have been a fantastic movie. It isn't too many Japanese horror movies that actually has train as a main "line"; and it is very few J-horror movies that i've seen (or any Asian horror movies for that matter) where two friends actually becomes friends, where the other one is a "bad guy".Here's what this movie have, that all other H-movies from Asia ones DON'T have: Train as main "line". Succeeded friendship (No failures, revenge or bullying). Cellphones that DON'T causes deaths. A Guy that really does take actions against "the problem" at the end - and succeed. A touch of realism, even tho it's a ghost story. And it's probably the first movie i've seen that the School students wearing Different types of uniforms in the very same classroom! My grades: Over all: 5/10 Horror: 3/10 Dialogues: 4/10 Acting: 4/10 Story: 6/10 CGI: 4/10 Ending: 8/10Thanks for me! Enjoy the movie - try to see it from a different point of view!

I like this movie, it has great beginning and ending but the middle part makes me give this movie five stars instead of more. This movie should be re-titled "Ghost Station", or "Ghost Tunnel" as much of the story doesn't takes place on a train.The movie centered around a high school girl called Nana whose kid sister found a lost train pass at the train station. She then disappeared the following day. The story goes, Nana's sister is not the only person who happens to vanished into thin air around that station. Many people who come across lost items on the train or at the station seem to be cursed by a woman dressed in black. It's been a bad week for our heroine Nana, not only has her sister gone missing, but her mother is in hospital for heart condition as well. As she search for her sister, she meets a guy who works as a train conductor. He too, sees strange happenings in the darken tunnel of the subway. With his help, they are able to find out something much more darker and eviler within the tunnel.As I watch this movie all sorts of questions popped up in my mind, such as, why are the locations of inter-cutting scenes don't match?, Why is a teenage melodrama doing in a horror movie?, And how can a woman without depth perception able to drive a car? This movie has a check list of things that needed to be in a J-horror movie, for example, ghost children, checked, evil ghost woman, checked, evil curse, checked, high school girl, checked, sound cue from Ringu, checked, unexplained ending, checked, and last but not least, zombie ghost, checked. As I said before, I do like this movie at the beginning for its creepy atmosphere and locations, and the story about a ghost haunting a subway tunnel although not new but still very interesting. I also like this movie for its zombie ghost stampede at the end of the movie. Still, due to editing and/or directing, the pacing of the film at time goes from slow to a dead stop. Lighting could be better also, as in the abandon tunnel scenes, the tunnels were too well lit to have any creepy atmosphere. This movie is good, but not very well thought-out.

I've been watching a lot of Asian horror movies lately, but this one has to be the worst so far. It started out interestingly enough, but lost momentum after the first 15 minutes of the movie. The added "drama" scenes, flashback sequences and serious plot holes left me hanging. What really happened in the tunnel? Just "something terrible"??? Who started all the killing if it wasn't the ghost? What did she want returned to her????? No answers whatsoever! Overall, not very scary at all and the movie makers need to come up with a lot better ideas than this...One positive was the cute actress, but that's about it.Not recommended.

I don't generally like horror movies, I absolutely hate slasher stuff and the real gory horror movies too. But I occasionally do enjoy a good Japanese horror movie because most are long on suspense and pretty low on gore. The Ring and Ju-on being prime examples. I gave this one a try because two of my favorite stars are in it Oguri Shun and Sawajiri Erika, they were good but the movie in general is nothing special. One really cool thing about it though is that it used some of HP Lovecraft Cthulhu Mythos, a carved relief in a subway tunnel and Erika's character is looking to goto school abroad at the Miskatonic University.