This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

This 2006 South Korean horror movie is more than just your average Asian ghost movie. It also offers a nice jab at the shallow and self-indulgent phenomena of beauty ideals and plastic surgery. I enjoyed this jab at the hollow plastic surgery culture that we live in today, because it is so pathetic that people undergo plastic surgery in a vague attempt to live up to the beauty ideals set by an equally hollow fashion industry fueled by the almighty dollar."Cinderella" (aka "Sin-de-rel-la") is not a scary movie, not by a long shot, and definitely not by South Korean standards - if you compare it to other South Korean horror movies. But what it lacks in scares it sort of make up for in the story, and definitely do so in the acting.If you enjoy the traditional Asian style ghost and horror genre, then "Cinderella" might be a bit out of your liking. It is not a traditional genre movie. But if you like to see something that breaks out of the pattern and brings something new to the genre, by all means spend about an hour and a half on watching "Cinderella".Director Man-Dae Bong managed to put together an interesting movie. And although it is slow paced, it does build up the story quite nicely. "Cinderella" is a horror movie driven by a proper storyline and not by scares, ghosts and special effects.I found "Cinderella" to be a good alternative in the South Korean horror cinema, where many other movies tend to follow a step by step instruction manual of how to piece together a horror movie.

"Cinderella" isn't that bad but could've been much better.**SPOILERS**Preparing to undergo surgery, Suk-yung, (Jeon So-min) tries not to let her fear stop her from going through with it, despite surgeon Yoon-hee, (To Ji-won) trying to qualm them. When her friend Hyun-su, (Shin Se-kyeong) tries to gather her other friends Sung-aum, (Yu Da-in) and Mae-wong, (Ahn Ah-yung) that also had work done at the office, for a birthday party when they suddenly start behaving weirdly and begin to carve themselves according to the surgery performed on them. Convinced it has something to do with her mother, she confronts her about it only to have a terrifying secret revealed to her in the process. Realizing that all of the events in the past as well as what's happening to her friends are related to this secret, he races to solve it before more friends are injured.The Good News: There was some good stuff to this one from time-to-time. One of the best features is that, when it starts to get going there's some good scenes. One of the best here is the rather fun and entertaining birthday party scenes, which really don't have a whole lot really wrong. There's some creepy images once it utilizes them, from the image of the lit birthday-cake moving through the darkened room to the rather bizarre freak-outs and the darkened room when the power goes out causing them to also freak-out is a pretty entertaining scene. Coupled with the different visions in the mirrors featuring the distorted face, either with severe scalpel marks or burn wounds is an overall great scene. Another really fun scene is the fantastic scene in art class, which starts with the hand appearing in the paint before dragging the victim head-first into it, only when returning to it later on showing no signs of anything happening. When that's stumbled upon later, the graphic face-cutting that resulted in the interim makes the scene really stand-out. Other minor scenes, including the ghostly visions at the beginning that may-or-may-not be there, the nightmare with her in the facial mask or also run into quite enjoyable scenes and are definitely pretty enjoyable as a whole. The back-story to this is also really good, with there being two great parts that come from it. Firstly is the awesome twist that's revealed, which is definitely something that isn't seen coming and really shouldn't, to a rather inventive way of finding out about it, it's a really great flashback that manages to hold more significance than initially expected. As well, there's some fun action to be had as well with the exploding car and the race to the hospital, which really help this one out considerably as well. The last plus here is the kills, which are pretty graphic and brutal. There's several faces that are sliced up with knives, a burnt victim, a stabbing in the arm and more, which while it doesn't sound like a lot definitely has it's moments. These here are what work for the film.The Bad News: There was a couple of problems to this one that hold it down somewhat. One of the film's biggest flaws is the fact that the film makes utterly no sense at all. From the revelation to the fact that it's done at the very end of the film, and the big angle where it's just so confusingly done that nothing here is given anything close to a definitive answer. This is due to the film's incessant and irritating problem of skipping around in time so much that there's hardly any way of knowing where anyone is at in a certain point in time, since it goes from the present time to the flashback that explains everything to seeing what happened with the friends without any change in doing anything new to explain that it's skipping around in time to do this. It all looks the same, to the wardrobe to the outfits and appearance as well as the technical look of the film, and this just ends up not really doing the film any favors in clarifying issues at all. The fact that the film just sort of ends without really doing anything else is a big part of that. This one doesn't have a real clear-cut way of ending, just sorting of featuring a series of scenes that pass by without any dialog whatsoever which makes it impossible to tell what's going on, and then the series of events themselves make even less sense. All in all, it's a very problematic issue. The last issue with this one is the fact that there's not a whole lot of scenes in the middle that are really enjoyable. It's just a whole lot of rather slow-going scenes that rarely match up with any kind of excitement or momentum into the film, which manages to make them come across so dull that it makes these scenes even harder to care for. The constant scenes of her working out with her mother, her friends sniping at each other in art class or at the pool, or the seemingly endless scenes of the group talking over what's happening are just a part of this, and they all take this one down.The Final Verdict: Not that bad overall, but there's enough good points and bad ones to make this film an even washout. Pretty much only there for the hardcore Asian fanatics or those who might find this story interesting, while those who are put off by the film's problems should heed caution.Rated UR/R: Graphic Violence and some Language

This movie gets to be underrated because it is a different kind of horror. Asian horror films have a unique way of making a film out of every fear the human mind could comprehend. This of course makes it the best, and worst, type of horror film. With this particular movie, one must step outside their usual routine and look at the situation presented to them. After you are out of your box you have to step into this film's twisted mind and distorted reality. This movie is really a mindf$#@ but it is certainly worth the ride. As for some of the underlying tones, they are also what makes Asian horror films so unique. This film is no exception, however it definitely is not the most underlying Asian film I have seen. Try Marebito. Excellent film. Sorry for speaking so vague and talking about Asian films in general, but I think it is necessary because this film deserves to be watched.

Mommy's little girl Hyeon Su is a normal 17-year old student,beautiful enough to disregard her friends latest obsession:plastic surgery.Or maybe the lack of interest is due to the fact her gentle mother Yong Hee is a plastic surgeon.When one of her friends decides to go under the knife for a little skin revision,Yong Hee gives her more than a pretty new face.The result is blood all over the place.Seeing so many of her friends die,Hyeon Su finds comfort in her friend Seung Eun,but then she discovers a creepy secret of her mother...Some reviewers compared this film to masterful "A Tale of Two Sisters",but it's clearly not as good and memorable.In fact it's pretty dull and offers almost zero scares."Cinderella" looks slick,the acting is fine and Korean girls are jaw-droppingly beautiful,unfortunately the action moves at the snail's pace.Skip this one.5 out of 10.