Simply Perfect

Don't Believe the Hype

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

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

American couple spend their honeymoon in China but get duped into becoming sacrifices to "Moon Demons". One pet hate of mine is shaky cam and here we have a terrible example. But not only that, the picture is often too dark so see what is going on plus it often blurs. Headache inducing. Plus plot wise it's very minimal. Poor effort.

I'm not sure why there's this horrible fondness as of late for using hand-held steadycams, but it certainly makes an almost unwatchable mess of what is a very good story, very good acting, and seemingly a good production.The story itself is an engaging one: honeymooners trapped in remote China with the undead seeking their lives. It's strongly steeped in Chinese mysticism, and had me from the get go.The acting was really good. I'd never have thought someone like Amy Smart could pull off a role like this, and she did a great job.Unfortunately, the use of shaky cam just detracts so much from the movie that parts of it are almost incomprehensible. Directors need to realize that this particular technique is being OVERDONE and makes for really bad cinema.Hopefully this trend will soon fade... Otherwise you can't help but wonder how many more movies will be ruined by this technique.

Here's what I'm guessing: The only film production term the director (LOL) of this POS ever learned was EXTREME CLOSE UP. Because that's all he BLEEPING shot! His "style" (LOL) of film making is to shove a hand held camera right into the face of each actor in every single scene. So all we ever see (or barely see) are noses, parts of their eyes, some hair, a chin, maybe an ear.At least, I think that's what they were -- because the idiot kept shaking the BLEEPING camera while he did it. I thought Paul Greengrass was bad with all his crappy BS cocaine-pumped, hypersonic, epileptic, motion sickness style (LOL) of film making. But the guy who made this film makes him look like he's standing still and filming in slow motion.And for all I know, they could have made this entire movie inside a closet. Not once did I see a wide shot or even a background in any of the scenes. Just close ups of faces. Nothing but faces. They almost showed some wide shots a couple of times, but then the director either set it out of focus or had weeds, trees or some other object obscure the shot.BTW, the IMDb page states that Amy Smart is in this. IS SHE? All I saw were strands of blonde hair and tired looking eyes flashing past the camera every once in a while. I still have NO idea who it was. It could have been Paris Hilton. Who the hell knows? Also, anyone know what the ghosts looked like in this thing? Because I have NO BLEEPING idea! All I saw (or sorta saw) were extreme out of focus close ups of something bald and white. That's it. I think. Still not sure.Unless you like being totally confused AND extremely irritated, avoid this flick at all costs!!

Eduardo Sánchez, his name will always be remembered as the writer of Blair Witch Project. It was a hype it was frightening and scary even as no blood was used, still people watched under their bed for days after watching BWP. When the hype surrounding BWP was over all people involved in the project disappeared. Suddenly there was a new movie from Eduardo Sánchez after the failure BWP 2. Altered was the title but it flopped in some ways, still it was good. Now he deliver us this flick. Again in documentary style, you know, shaky and out of focus camera's. But this time the storyline is weak, some scene's are too long and be honest, we have seen it all before with all those remakes of Japanese ghost movies like The Grudge and others. It was never frightening, there isn't any blood, okay, used blood but no gore or anything else. When the driver disappears you immediately knows what his role is in the ghost world. I have seen better, more scary flicks about ghosts last year like End Of The Line, maybe Sánchez has reached the end of the line?