People mysteriously start receiving voicemail messages from their future selves, foretelling their deaths.People mysteriously start receiving voicemail messages from their future selves, foretelling their deaths.People mysteriously start receiving voicemail messages from their future selves, foretelling their deaths.
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- TriviaDuring the opening credit sequence, one of the cell phone ring-tones is the theme song from an earlier Takashi Miike film, Gozu (2003).
- GoofsYumi arrives at the abandoned hospital at 6:45 p.m. on April 24, and it's nighttime. On that date, sunset in Japan ranges from around 6:20 p.m. Japan Standard Time in the east, near Tokyo, to around 6:55 p.m. in the west, near Nagasaki. Depending on what part of Japan she is in, it should be daytime or twilight outside, not full dark.
- Quotes
Yoko Okazaki: Oh no, it's raining.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Chakushin ari meikingu: Chakushin rireki (2003)
- SoundtracksIkutsuka no Sora
(Few Skies)
Vocal by Kô Shibasaki (as Kou Shibasaki)
Written by Yasushi Akimoto
Composed by Jin Nakamura
Arranged by Chokkaku
Universal J / Chimera Energy
Featured review
Miike Fans, Be Honest
Even fans of Takashi Miike (I'm one) should be honest. He's made some bravura masterpieces like Audition and 13 Assassins but he's also churned out a lot of overlong, incoherent stinkers, of which this is one.
The premise - that people receive cell phone messages from their future selves recorded just before the moment of their deaths - had a lot of potential but Miike spaffs all that up the wall by drowning the film in slow, boring exposition and skimping on the many inventive and creepy deaths this film should have contained.
The biggest problem here is that the backstory behind why all this is happening is uninteresting and revealed in tedious chunks throughout. Instead of making the main events in the present scarier they actually make them seem more mundane. There's also a lack of clarity around how and why these events can be stopped.
Another thing that bugged me was characters behaving irrationally. The victims heard their own words recorded at the moments of their future deaths but didn't appear to make any concerted effort not to robotically repeat those same words when the time came. You'd think that it might occur to them that to be in a hotel room or a cop shop at the predicted instant of their death while definitely not uttering the words on the premonitory recording might keep them safe. But no. No one tries this and they all shamble into the jaws of doom like the pathetic, suicidal sheep they are.
This could have been a great film but it was an opportunity badly missed. Still there's plenty of other Miike to check out. It's not like the man hasn't given us anything else to choose from.
The premise - that people receive cell phone messages from their future selves recorded just before the moment of their deaths - had a lot of potential but Miike spaffs all that up the wall by drowning the film in slow, boring exposition and skimping on the many inventive and creepy deaths this film should have contained.
The biggest problem here is that the backstory behind why all this is happening is uninteresting and revealed in tedious chunks throughout. Instead of making the main events in the present scarier they actually make them seem more mundane. There's also a lack of clarity around how and why these events can be stopped.
Another thing that bugged me was characters behaving irrationally. The victims heard their own words recorded at the moments of their future deaths but didn't appear to make any concerted effort not to robotically repeat those same words when the time came. You'd think that it might occur to them that to be in a hotel room or a cop shop at the predicted instant of their death while definitely not uttering the words on the premonitory recording might keep them safe. But no. No one tries this and they all shamble into the jaws of doom like the pathetic, suicidal sheep they are.
This could have been a great film but it was an opportunity badly missed. Still there's plenty of other Miike to check out. It's not like the man hasn't given us anything else to choose from.
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- robojames
- Mar 31, 2021
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- Gross worldwide
- $17,605,379
- Runtime1 hour 52 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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