Synopsis: Yumi’s friends start dying mysterious deaths after receiving phone calls from themselves in the future at the moment of their death. Yumi partners up with Yamashita, the brother of one of these victims, to get to the bottom of things, until Yumi herself receives the call…
My take: What a big, steaming pile of poo. I realized beforehand that this was a very cliché, mainstream effort from director Miike, but I held out hope that he would have put a little of his characteristic style into it, but this is not the case. The story, the deaths, the spooky moments, they were all pretty unoriginal and boring. The ending turns out to be all muddled up – the corpse that was calling everyone before their deaths turns out not to be the killer and tries to help save Yumi from the real killer who eventually possesses Yumi and tries to kill Yamashita but doesn’t succeed and then isn’t mentioned again? WTF? The characters act in ridiculous ways – instead of trying to save themselves, they put themselves right into danger. And the ending – after stabbing Yamashita and sending him to the hospital, Yumi visits him there with a knife hidden behind her back as a joke and they both have a good laugh? I bet the American re-make of this is a real gem.
Most ridiculous moment: Being attacked by a corpse whose skin is falling off in big chunks, Yumi doesn’t fight back, doesn’t try to get away, doesn’t scream – she just looks straight ahead, apparently unfazed.
1 out of 4 Zombie Faces
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