Dark Water Details

[Highly rated reviewer]

not the best of asian horror

I am a big fan of asian horror, that being said this is just and average scare or two after watching and hour or ten minutes of build up. Nice ending to the film though. If you want asain horror choose the eye, the ring or the grudge.

Ditch Water

Dull, predictable, nothing new. Without spoiling it, another one from the stable of child talks to dead people/mother fights ghost who just had a rough time of it/Japanese remakes.

Little effort spent on the plot (I hear based on a 40-page novel - that many?), yet it doesn't bother to take the time to explain the few red herrings planted in the first half. Perhaps watch it with the sound off.

None of the characters inspire sympathy or compassion, so it is very difficult to stay with them. AND CAN WE PLEASE get away from frantic fights with the supernatural in the bathtub? Boring.

Pete Postlethwaite as Veeck is about the only redeeming element in this unoriginal production. The other redeeming feature perhaps is that its one of the few films that doesn't suggest that all New Yorkers live in huge modern trendy loft apartments, while being unemployed artists/writers.

A waste of 1hr 45mins of my life. My husband doesn't think so though - he fell asleep through it, so thinks he spent the time well.