Intcatinfo A Masterpiece!

ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Derrick Gibbons An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Fishman1966 I'm somewhat used to indie-films zipping around from past to present to dream sequences and back to any combination of the above. But this movie was just plain dumb. A legend says gypsy girl is killed due to a pact with the devil. A silent film maker tries to make a film about the legend, he disappears. A modern day film maker decides to try again, turmoil ensues. The plot is so contrived in the first 15 minutes that I lost interest. Then, people started beating each other up for no apparent reason, then people started dying. People that I really didn't care about, people who were so uninteresting that I started wondering who they were. Oh yeah, they were the people working on the movie, but no one had a back-story, besides the director, who, all you figured out was that he was a whack-doodle. Don't think I'm giving away any major plot points, but I always put a spoiler alert just to be on the safe side. Rent it or watch it "on demand," but don't waste your money buy it.

Ben Larson The formula has been repeated so often you have to wonder why they don't just quit.Take a good Japanese suspense film of the same name, which was directed by Hideo Nakata (The Ring Trilogy), and had a screenplay by Hiroshi Takahashi, who also wrote the screenplays for the Ring Trilogy. and bring in a big time director (Fruit Chan) and someone to adapt the screenplay to add gore instead of suspense (Brian Cox), add some American eye candy (Rachael Murphy), and you have a film that is a pale imitation of the original directed to teens.Forget the eye candy, find the original.

trashgang There was a time that Japanese or Asian flicks were the next big thing. Gore galore and brutality used was a common thing. Sadly, Hollywood saw the dollars coming in and started to remake most of those flicks, many of them flopped. Even worser, those eastern directors were asked to make Hollywood movies. Bad idea, they are really crap. Here, Fruit Chan, the director couldn't deliver the stuff. And even as the granddaughter of actor, Charles Chaplin, plays in it it really is a dreg. The idea is okay, but done before a year ago in two other films. The movie in the movie, remember The Hills Run Red and Midnight Movie. Here a director would like to remake a movie that was never finished due to, as legends go, evil spirits. Those evil spirits are killing all crew members or anyone involved in the making of the movie. The supernatural is a main thing in this flick but appears too much via CGI. No gore, no nudity, no suspense, no nothing. I would recommend it for teenagers seeking for a good time with a beer and some crisps.

SirFuzzi "Don't Look Up" is a remake of an old Japanese film, following in an almost viral tradition; "The Grudge" and "The Ring" are but two popular titles that have followed this trend. Both are stellar films in their own rights; unfortunately, "Don't Look Up" shows promise only moments before falling flat on its face.From the very beginning of the movie, the viewer is introduced to the significant element: a vengeful spirit seeking to inflict her sorrows on the world. The Romanian Devil Beng, long ago, struck a deal with a woman who would bear this devil's child in exchange for the most powerful man. This would ensure her a life of leisure. It's fairly bread-and-butter as far as backdrop folklore goes, but it sets a solid premise; this is where the solidity ends, as the movie begins to jump... the viewer is treated to an early 20's filming where an actress purportedly "disappears" without a trace. The film was never produced and is never seen. The spirit apparently kills the director of said film, then, and we cut to a man standing in his room, having what can only be described as a seizure. He is apparently capable of seeing apparitions, and writes his sights down for movie plots-- he is a starving-artist director whose odd 'condition' has inhibited his ability to properly shoot a film. He then gets a phone call, apparently to see his sickly (ex, perhaps) girlfriend. She has a vindictive brother who has no love for our director star and tells him to leave his house. Thus the man sets out for Romania to shoot another film based on these otherworldly sights. For those keeping track, at this point, the movie still retains intrigue and a plot that seems to have potential.Plot elements officially lose consistency here. They go to Romania, to the old film studio where the 20's director was killed. And from this studio, there are both strange sounds and awful smells; however, they ignore this and begin shooting. A scene mimics the very first in the movie with the 20's film shooting, and then all hope is lost. The director meets a strange old man with an unsightly growth on his neck who tells him he has been waiting for another to film a movie at the studio. Then, the supposed spirit starts causing wanton death with no real explanation as to why. People get angry and pull a strange hook out of nowhere-- this is a significant element only in that the old man was holding it, and apparently, he was important. Somehow. At this point, the plot and the characters are inexplicably inconsistent; if it is trying to make a knock on the style of "The Grudge," it has missed the critical phase of explanation. There is no talk of the spirit's influence. There is just flies. Lots and lots of flies.At this point, the film has officially stopped making sense. The actress portraying the disappeared actress from the '20s is making her move on the main character, people are still dying at an almost alarming ratio of roughly 1 per every 8 or 9 minutes, and the deaths are still inexplicable, have no allusion or purpose, and just seem to be for the sake of wanton murder. There is a disturbing scene where the main character confronts the spirit, who proceeds to discharge a number of things from her vagina, and he runs. The actress tells him they can spare this girl from her suffering and then the main character's girlfriend comes in from a giant backdrop of glowing white and everything disappears. Someone asks the main character who he's talking to, and he says his girlfriend's name; the reply is simply that she has been dead for a while. It cuts back to him; she's not there. He cries, the police take him away, and the viewer is left wondering, quite frankly, what in the name of Mother Earth just happened. It's revealed that he was hallucinating her all along, but that explains all of five minutes-- if that-- of film. The viewer is left wondering what, why and how the spirit is what it is.In conclusion, "Don't Look Up" isn't necessarily a bad premise; I say this only because I could not grasp the premise fully from the film. There is indeed a spectre, and there is indeed death, but what the relevance is between that, the myth stated at the beginning of the film and the main character, I cannot truly say. However, the operation is awful, the actors as a majority do poorly at their job, and the special effects feel a bit dated to be from 2009. It almost seems as if they had a good film for a rough thirty minutes, and then completed the remainder for homework in a cramped hour in their rooms, under dim lamplight with their sixth can of energy drink in progress. If you didn't pay for it, "Don't Look Up" is an item of mild curiosity. Otherwise, avoid it and rent something else. Anything else in the horror genre ought to be better than this, as few films nowadays lack such basic elements of coherency and continuity.Note: I believe the scenes using the girl's eye are taken directly from "Ringu," the Japanese version of the film "The Ring."