neilperera20

Although the cinematography is nice I cannot honestly see where they have managed to spend 60 million on this film. Those expecting huge sets being destroyed in epic battles with thousands of extra's, will be sorely disapointed. Like most Korean films I thought the plot was a little incoherent to start with. This film is compared to Braveheart and Gladiator but lack of a strong lead character prevents Musa from competing. Although the film has good visuals (but then so does Ridley Scott's Gladiator).

Summary : Great cinematography, good realistic violence, un-even paced story, very "un-epic" battles, difficult to emote with characters...

good Cinematography and well-shot realistic violence push this beyond average....6/10

The Animatrix is quite a nice selection of shorts. I thought the first one, "The final flight of Osiris" has perhaps stolen too much of the credit. The Squaresoft people have made this look amazingly realistic but then again I think animation should be more about style and artistic impression, rather than ultra-realism.

My favourite ones were the Second Renaissance Part 1 and 2 because I felt this one on balance had the best animation/story. "Kids Story" was also very well animated and naturally the kawajiri one was very typical japanese animation, and did entertain.

There were some poor ones like the "world record" one and the very final one (can't remember the name). But overall it is a nice package and since they are like 10 minutes long, you can just watch them at any time.

7/10

I thought this film was pretty good. Was pleasantly surprised that the film kept faithful to the original and also incorporated aspects from Ring 0 and Ring 2. I still think I prefer the japanese version, although there is not much in it. I thought Ringu had a greater sense of evil and darkness which The Ring kind of lacked.

Like Ringu...no way near as scary as people say but distinguished nontheless...7/10 then