First off, I am not a horror fan. That is influencing my take on this movie.
This is fair story, based in Japan on Japanese folk-lore about the dead. That works well.
I thought Aubrey Davis was well played. I wasn't much impressed by anyone else. Over-acting, poorly portraying the character, odd moments of hamming it for the camera. Overall this seems more like weak direction, or that the director intended to achieve something other than telling the story well.
The effects are good, but the story is told non-linear, not in time sequence. We follow stories of several people and families for much of the movie before finding that they actually do interconnect. I found the nearly random presentation sequence part of the problem of the weak story telling.
I guess for a horror story the effects, basically solid story come out OK.
This is fair story, based in Japan on Japanese folk-lore about the dead. That works well.
I thought Aubrey Davis was well played. I wasn't much impressed by anyone else. Over-acting, poorly portraying the character, odd moments of hamming it for the camera. Overall this seems more like weak direction, or that the director intended to achieve something other than telling the story well.
The effects are good, but the story is told non-linear, not in time sequence. We follow stories of several people and families for much of the movie before finding that they actually do interconnect. I found the nearly random presentation sequence part of the problem of the weak story telling.
I guess for a horror story the effects, basically solid story come out OK.