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Summary: Huh? Did we see the same flick?
Review: I am sitting here reading reviews of this movie and I see words like "fright", "scary", etc. What? If this is scary, then "Beaches" is a hardcore snuff film. This movie is totally not scary. It's about Korean high school girls and that's it. Yeah, one girl offs herself, and the others sit around and discuss her. It's weak. No nothing. If you think this is scary, I bet you are deadbolting your doors after a good healthy dose of Barney or Dragon Tales. Watch Ju-On if you want scary. If you want Korean scary, watch Bloody Beach or Scissors. This is the weakest link.
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Summary: Huh? Did we see the same flick?
Review: I am sitting here reading reviews of this movie and I see words like "fright", "scary", etc. What? If this is scary, then "Beaches" is a hardcore snuff film. This movie is totally not scary. It's about Korean high school girls and that's it. Yeah, one girl offs herself, and the others sit around and discuss her. It's weak. No nothing. If you think this is scary, I bet you are deadbolting your doors after a good healthy dose of Barney or Dragon Tales. Watch Ju-On if you want scary. If you want Korean scary, watch Bloody Beach or Scissors. This is the weakest link.
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Summary: scared (...) me
Review: I went to see this movie in Korea thinking it was nothing, I got dragged there. It is set in a girl's high school, a girl dies and comes back to haunt the place. Really it is a social commentary on the way students, especially girls, are treated by teachers, especially male teachers. It has the added bonus of being a bone chiller, scared (...) me, maybe becuase I wasn't expecting it. Highly recommended on many levels, but be sure it has subtitles if you don't speak Korean.
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Summary: Forget this memento.
Review: Muddled and mediocre Korean supernatural soaper shows some technical and compositional finesse but is ruined by a nearly incoherent and unrewarding script (and one of the shrillest casts ever). Like some (...) child of an indie sapphic coming of age tale and a Sixth Sense style atmospheric horror flick, Memento Mori starts out on a promising note but soon falls apart to the point where a prop, an elaborate diary/scrapbook belonging to one of the film's tragic heroines, is the most compelling thing on the screen. Die hard Asian genre fans may want to check it out, but will likely be disappointed by it's art house pretension, afterschool special melodrama and clumsily, sometimes laughably executed chills.The story, told with the aid of frequent, and often confusing flashbacks, focuses on one girl's obsessive love for another and a third girl's discovery of the second girl's diary. After an eternity of pointless set up at the bizarre high school where the film takes place, the film still waits until the last few minutes to decide what direction to go in; it chooses horror, and proceeds to waste everyone's time again until the credits finally roll. Memento Mori is subpar as art house drama, school drama, lesbian romance, suspense film and horror movie. One can only assume it's art house elements are what have led to it's gaining a stateside release while dozens of far more effective Korean and Japanese genre efforts languish unreleased.
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Summary: A well-acted atmospheric thriller, marred by poor release
Review: The best thing going for "Memento Mori" is the powerful performances of its young cast. The performances here rival the best found in any teen thriller. Building upon these strong performances "Memento Mori" is a chilling atmospheric thriller that I found engrossing through not completely narratively coherent. Beyond storyline problems, the DVD release from Tai Seng Entertainment suffers from extreme image jitter and a non-anamorphic release. Overall, this DVD deserves 4 stars for content, and 2 stars for DVD quality.
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Summary: A well-acted atmospheric thriller, marred by poor release
Review: The best thing going for "Memento Mori" is the powerful performances of its young cast. The performances here rival the best found in any teen thriller. Building upon these strong performances "Memento Mori" is a chilling atmospheric thriller that I found engrossing through not completely narratively coherent. Beyond storyline problems, the DVD release from Tai Seng Entertainment suffers from extreme image jitter and a non-anamorphic release. Overall, this DVD deserves 4 stars for content, and 2 stars for DVD quality.
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Summary: more than just a thriller
Review: This movie is more than just a good scare. It puts into perspective the relationship between girls in an all-female environment. It's very competitive, it's very aggressive, but also very sexual. The plot gives an interesting twist to a lesbian relationship that is more than sex. It is more than attraction. It's obsession. It's completeness. The girls are part of each other. The Carrie-like ending is the climax of the jealousy and frustration. It really is quite a stunning movie, and it is beautifully shot (I'm thinking of the introduction scene for example). The diary is also incredibly beautiful. Really, a movie to see.
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Summary: Very Beautiful and Well acted
Review: Well, I was not disappointed with Memento Mori, and found that the director too a very old type of ghost story, and turned it into something beautiful and haunting. The only thing that holds the movie back from being amazing is the sloppy pacing, and some weird plot device that never really pan out to anything. Other than that a highly recomended film.
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