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After hearing lots of mixed opinions about this movie I finally decided
that I would go and see it. And to be honest, I didn't like it at
all. First of all I just don't understand the reasoning behind
remaking Ju-On. I have never seen it but I know that it came out in
2000, it is written and directed by the same Takashi Shimizu that
directed The Grudge. I hear that it is almost a shot for shot
remake, it was even filmed in Japan. I would have rather they did a
theatrical subtitled release of Ju-On. But since it worked with The
Ring there is a lot of cash to be made we get a boring remake. So
what makes this one such shit? Well to start with, the movie is all over
the place. There seems to be a ton of things going on at once.
At points the movie will enter a flash back but it is hard to tell that it
is a flashback. It jumps from one thing to another and doesn't seem to
take time to breath. It just feels like they wanted to get as many
jump scares and as much action as possible in an hour and a half.
Maybe if it were a little longer it would have allowed the plot to build
momentum.
The acting was decent, everyone involved seemed to have given a good
effort. Gellar did good with what she was given, which wasn't a lot.
Directing was pretty ok, I didn't notice anything special, some nice
angles and good lighting but that's about it. Soundtrack wasn't
anything great as well.
Another thing that I didn't like was the fact that the monster in the
movie looked completely idiotic. She looked like her face was spray
painted silver in some scenes, and in others she looked like she was CGI.
The inconsistencies were puzzling and left me wondering if it was the
supposed to be the same character. The noise she made was extremely
dumb and even laughable. One last thing that destroyed this movie,
is the fact that the movie seemed to want to be The Ring. There are
scenes with fuzzy TVs, and yes I realize that lots of movies have this,
but it had nothing to do with the movie. There are lots of little
things as well that just kept bringing The Ring to mind. But the
number one thing that made me feel like this was The Ring is the girl and
how that she wears her hair over her face just like Samara from The Ring.
The first time I saw the trailer for The Grudge I thought that I was
watching a trailer for The Ring Two.
So when it is all said and done, The Grudge just isn't worth the time,
it's as simple as that. |
