dimensional_powerx Review of Shutter

Shutter (I) (2008)

Why they still do this 'things' (some call it 'movies')

[22 April 2008]

The original movie is brilliant: Starts like a typical 'scary movie', and suddenly it turns to be an excellent 'love drama' with one of the best endings i have seen in an movie like this,,, But, again, the studios bought the script, adapt it, and put someone who, technically can make a good version,,, the director make a decent work portraying the Japanese society(in a very mediocre way in the end,,,not bad: mediocre... a Japanese girl jumping to the arms of a man? bad bad bad),,, Why Japan and not Tailand? Who knows (we know, but I can't be so rude), in the end is irrelevant, but at the beginning its kinda strange,,, The story starts almost the same as the original,,, and 30 seconds later changes completely,,, the original plot of a man fighting the 'ghosts' of his past, is changed by the plot of a woman fighting with the 'jelous and dead' ex-girlfriend,,, near the end of the film he screams 'he left you because he doesn't love you!!!',,, that's ridiculous,,, the end remains almost equal to the original,,, but it feels terribly empty: the original presents three people(live and dead) destined to have a shared destiny for the mistakes of one man,,, this remake shows a man receiving his lesson because he is a jerk,,, so disappointing,,, I tell you: Go, buy the original Shutter, watch it, enjoy it,,, stay away from this,,, thing,,, remake,,, whatever you call it,,, don't tell is good because you didn't see the original,,, even if you don't watch it, don't make this movie good,,,