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Nothing that happens makes any sense, and a good deal of it is not possible according to the laws of physics.

Suddenly a brainwashed girl decides to stop taking her daily vitamins...because, reasons...then she convinces her ultra-conformist friend-turned-enemy to also stop taking her vitamins by the very convincing ploy of ... telling her to. This random decision turns out to be extremely clever in retrospect because it reveals all the secrets. And it's all downhill from there.

Some other things happen because of reasons, but our intrepid heroes are determined and therefore cannot be stopped by the laws of physics or logic.

A small teen girl needs to take the hinges off a large, locked, steel security door using only a plastic key card? Okay, no problem.

She needs to beat up and knock out a beefy security guard who is three times her size? Okay, no problem.

She needs to convince someone who doesn't trust her to believe an unbelievable story that contradicts everything they've ever known? Okay, no problem.

And the liberties they take with medicine - don't even get me started. And that ending..."watch me make all our problems go away with this one simple trick that makes doctors furious!" Boom, bang, a bit of movie magic and all is ... resolved? Or something?

Ugh.

Two stars because some of the acting was kind of okay. But I almost wish it had been worse because then it might have been amusing instead of just eye-rollingly dull and ridiculous.

I saw the plot points coming from miles away, but I still had fun watching it unfold. The predictability killed some of the drama, losing it a couple of stars, but I liked the action.

A good solid movie, fun to watch. You've seen it before, but if you're okay with an old plot remade then you'll probably like this one. I liked the characters and the dialogue was pretty good. I especially liked the character arc for the young girl, Ani.

There are many worse ways to fill a couple of hours.

The plot is cheesy and unbelievable, the dialogue is cheesy and unbelievable and delivered in monotones, the acting is lifeless and unbelievable.

I got the feeling it was written that way on purpose to try to give it a certain tone. Unfortunately that tone is monotone. I like my trained assassin revenge stories to have some passion, and this one had all the passion of a rock at the bottom of the arctic ocean.

I assume the plot is supposed be over-dramatized, with the fancy assassin club and super fake-looking "cover" businesses and the super-sinister boys-club "company" that does ... things of some sort, I assume. Other than order people to be assassinated by the girls-club assassin guild. But it was so badly over-stylized that it just came across as stiff and fake.

It also skipped over the big fight scenes, I assume because they couldn't make them look believable - not that that stopped them in any other scene.

It does have the dubious honor of being by far the most boring assassin movie I've ever seen.

I found the show to be slow paced, but not boring. I enjoy a well-written slow-burn show, and this hit at precisely the right spot for me. Lots of little breadcrumbs to keep me curious, and plenty of gradual reveals that I found satisfying. The conclusion I found to be ... balanced. Not all happy, not all sad. I liked it. Several strongly foreshadowed themes that I remembered the references to, and even guessed a bit of the fulfilment of, but it went even beyond what I guessed. I enjoyed the interwoven layers of story. I was so invested in the characters that even the repetitive episodes kept my interest - for one thing because even when they repeated they weren't always exactly the same, and for another because it helped build up the atmosphere and characters by how each of them responded. Even the little girl's repeated use of the phrase "perfectly splendid" tied into a major plot point. Some may find it annoying (it slows down in the later episodes), I found it curious and a bit creepy, suspecting it tied in to some of the mystery. And I was vindicated in that.

If you don't enjoy slow buildup, or if you want jump-scares and constant life-or-death tension, feel free to not watch this show. It is a bit slower in the first episodes than the later ones, but it is never fast-paced or thrilling. If you have to force yourself to keep watching, you probably won't enjoy it. That's okay, it's not for everyone. I binged it over the course of about a week, and never once thought of giving up on it.

An action movie doesn't need to be high quality, but this one falls just a little short of even that standard. The plot is forced, people being idiots and doing things because the plot requires it with no regard for whether anybody would actually do such a thing. The dialogue is bland, cliché, and often badly delivered (because the lines are so bad nobody could mouth those words with any conviction.) Some plot devices are shoehorned in for convenience but then never go anywhere. It has some okay action, as expected from an action movie, but it could have used a little more. And of course it uses the standard movie cheat codes - bad guys get knocked unconscious by hitting them in the stomach, but the good guy takes a minute-long beating to the face by multiple trained fighters and walks away without a bruise (after rendering them all unconscious with a few unconvincing hits.) The big fight scene at the end involves three different factions, at least, and it's dark and muddled as many fight scenes are, and the motivations of some of the characters are not clear, which makes it impossible to really follow what's going on. And finally, if someone is chasing you and you don't see them behind you any more, don't stop and look around for them. Keep going, idiot. Still gets four stars because it's supposed to be a mindless action movie, so it's not a high standard. But it's like they didn't even try.

It's your standard PI/vigilante "beat people up until you find the bad guys at the top, then beat them up too" kind of show. An enjoyable, not-too-deep watch.

One pointless sex scene with no nudity that adds nothing to the show.

Some fairly amusing personalities and a bit of moderate humor.

Fairly good entertainment, no more no less. Worth watching if you enjoy this type of show in general.

Somewhat interesting premise, in spite of the plot holes. Otherwise it had nothing going for it.

I hated all the main characters, and hoped they would all be dead by the end.

The angry abusive husband whose solution to everything is to kill people.

The main character who doesn't care about anything but himself - the summary makes it seem like he's trying to protect his friends but he's not. If he had just dropped it and left them alone they would have been fine. His own insanity caused most of the issues in the movie. I hated him at least as much as the abusive husband.

And then there's the love interest, who is cheating on her husband while he's deployed in the military, then when he comes home she wants to drop the affair and pretend it never happened. I didn't totally hate her, but I didn't like her at all. If she hadn't cheated on her husband and then tried to cover it up, none of the story would have happened.

The sister and her husband were the nicest people in the story, and they're just side characters who get screwed because they're friends (and relatives) of twisted, messed-up people.

Not enjoyable to watch in any way.

First, the perspective of the girl is too limited - we only see things through her perspective, even though she is mostly restricted to the house alone. We get only a highly filtered version of what's going on in the world, and it's not enough to really understand anything. It's also very distant, so there's no sense of danger or urgency. It's just a girl stuck in the house wanting to go outside and get ice cream. Not very compelling.

Second, once we do start getting an idea of the setting, it's very cliche and exaggerated. Some people have special abilities, therefore everyone else in the whole world is terrified of them and hates them and wants them all to die. When every character in the movie, other than one naive little girl, is a foaming-at-the-mouth lunatic, it's kind of hard to connect to anyone or to suspend disbelief. Yes there are some extremists in the world, but when you try to make 99% of the population look like extremist nutjobs, it doesn't feel very realistic.

Finally, without an engaging plot or likeable characters, the only thing left is the preaching. Yes, yes, we all hate people who are different and want them to die. Got it. Thanks for educating me on that. *eye roll*

Never explains where ordinary people managed to come up with super high-tech spy quality equipment. Show scenes play out as each character is laying out possible events, only to have another character propose a different series of events which it also plays out for you, so by the end you've seen so many false narratives about what "might have happened" it actually becomes difficult to figure out what actually did happen. Not because it was clever, but simply because the truth was buried under a flood of imaginary scenarios that got shown to you as if they were real. Tries to be super elaborate and clever, and gets a bit muddled. But in spite of that it's an interesting story and fun to try to figure out what really happened.

Easy to get caught up in the imaginary "twists" but most of those are just made-up scenarios that never really happened as two characters try to manipulate each other into giving up truth. The actual twist doesn't come until the end, and although it's actually not very plausible it was still interesting and surprising (maybe more surprising because of not being very plausible, but still fun to watch.)

I enjoyed the characters, the mystery, the suspense and drama. I look forward to season 2 - because season 1 does not finish the story.

I had some suspicions about what was really going on, and as the season progressed I even guessed some of the motives. But it wasn't completely obvious, and even after I'd guessed some of it I still enjoyed watching the show to see how it would turn out.

I was hoping that Season 1 would be a complete story, but they ended it with a cliff-hanger. So I really hope there is a Season 2 and that the story is completed. I hate to invest so much time and emotion into a story only to have it never completed.

There was a brief time when I was doubtful about the antagonist's end goal - I didn't see that it would accomplish very much. But there were one or two lines that I remember that explain the end goal to my satisfaction. Blackmail is mentioned, but blackmail would only work once and then the whole system would be shut down because it would have obviously failed, and then everybody loses. Blackmail in this scenario is just the threat of 'mutually assured destruction' meant to protect the main goal. Don't try to take me down or I'll burn down everything and destroy us both. The main motivation is money, and there are many more ways of making money than through blackmail.

It could have been good, I was mostly enjoying it all the way up to the end. The characters had their moments of hormonal teen melodrama, of course, but with slightly less blatant stupidity that US teens would have had so I could go with it. And then the end... there was all this build-up leading to some big thing at the end, and then that big thing at the end just didn't make any sense at all. Why would the end happen that way? But even more of a question, why were so many significant characters pushing toward that ending that seemed like not a good ending for anybody involved? Why would you want that? What good was accomplished for anyone by that ending? Totally let down in the last episode.

Night scenes are too dark to see anything at all. A hollow log doesn't break when the monster beats on it as hard as it can, but it splits easily as a person crawls out of it. Character looks at two palm trees - there's a scene cut - character is lying in a hammock stretched twenty feet in the air between the two palm trees. How? Earlier scene - character mashes minnows and throws them in the water, quickly attracting a small shark. Later scene - character has a huge gash in leg, in one scene, then the wound is never shown again and she goes swimming almost immediately after without fear of sharks. Says she has enough food for three people for weeks, but the tiny bit of food she packs in that little chest would last one person one day. And then, when you finally see a clear shot of the 'monster'- oh, my. Man in a cheap rubber suit with the head of a toy dinosaur. ...and goat hooves? An amphibious creature with man legs and goat hooves? The creature comes out of the sea, but you never try to go inland? I'm not even sure this was actually an island - we never saw more than one beach. Everyone just assumes it's an island. Ends without full resolution. Terrible from beginning to end.

It's a fairly interesting concept, though it has been done before I've never seen it quite like this.

Most 'eternal life' shows have a very limited number of people living forever - the rich and/or powerful or a single villain. In this one, the vast majority can live indefinitely (it's never clear on the percentages of people who are 'incompatible'.)

It works as a mystery 90% of the way through the show, mainly because nothing that anybody does has any clear motivation. Even some of the basic premise is contrived - why set the 'age of majority' to 30 in general just because a person can't regenerate until 30? Minors are not drink, and everyone under 30 is designated a minor just because this one technology doesn't work for them yet. Lots of little silly things like that.

But the worst part is that nobody has any real motives for anything. A bunch of random things are being done by people for no apparent reason, other than "well I've lived a hundred years I'm ready to try something new." There are also several rabbit trails and things that are hinted at but never followed up on. What exactly is 'retraining?' (The following examples are obvious from the first episode, and apparently not in any way significant to the plot, so don't worry.) Why does Darius get headaches when he regenerates? Does the law they are voting on forbid all births or only restrict them, and if it forbids all births then what will they do as people die from accidents or violence?

The end seems to try to be a bit philosophical, but it fell flat for me because there was never any real reason given to believe anything would really change, ever. It wasn't terrible, it just wasn't clear enough to be moving or thought provoking or exciting or much of anything beyond slightly interesting.

If I could live a thousand years, I don't think I'd ever get bored enough to watch it again.

I can't believe I watched the whole thing. I was running low on other things to watch, but really I should have taken a nap every day for a week instead.

Worst storyline ever, worst dialogue ever. The characters all look older than thirteen, but they act like a bunch of kids going through puberty. Except I think actual thirteen-year-olds would have more common sense than these characters.

A bunch of strangers wake up on an island together with no memory, so they immediately start fighting and screaming at each other every chance they get. Every episode just escalates the fighting a little. Why? Drama, or something, I guess. Or they are just mean and angry people. Except... In the scenes that are not on the island, with characters who know who they are and have all their memories? Yeah, they snap at each other and scream and fight and make stupid decisions just as much as the island idiots.

Random stuff thrown in for no reason, to go along with everything else about the plot that has no reason, and the dialogue that sounds like it was written by a computer AI that learned English from a bunch of third grade essays on how to pretend to be an adult.

And then in the last episode or two they manage to shoehorn in a couple of references to current political/environmental hot topics, because that was probably the goal of writing this whole pathetic excuse for a show. But really, if you want anyone to even hear your message, much less take it seriously, please hire someone who knows how to write a halfway decent plot and dialogue.

I can't even blame the actors - they may or may not have been terrible actors, honestly how would you know when the script they are trying to follow is so horrible to begin with? I think they did well not to bust out laughing at their own cheesy lines.

Sound: The dialogue had poor quality sound, soft and fuzzy so I had to turn the volume up to max to understand some parts. But the background noise was relatively loud and obnoxious, so there were some parts where the dialogue was drowned out no matter what the volume. Turning it up just made my ears hurt.

Lighting: Most of the time it was fine, at least in the boring slow parts. But in the fight scenes suddenly there is no light, or random flashes of light combined with quick cuts and closeups of indeterminate body parts. Couldn't see anything that was happening.

Camera work: Standard steady cam for the slow non-action scenes. As soon as the action starts, the camera starts to shake and jump like the camera is on a bungee cord. Random cuts and bad close-up work that tries to camouflage bad special effects and ends up hiding everything.

The dialogue: Flat, cheesy, wooden. Half the time the actors sound like they are reading off a page and don't care. The other half of the time they sound like they are reading off a page while a dentist is pulling their teeth out with no anesthetic.

The plot: What plot? Completely incoherent, random nonsense, with a couple of god-complex want-to-bring-the-dead-back-and-live-forever cliches thrown in to a blender and chopped up until even the oldest and most overused parts are almost unrecognizable in the alphabet soup they call a plot. The parts that are not cliche are just completely random story fragments whose only purpose seems to be so they can introduce a couple more warm bodies into the mix.

The end: I kind of understood the end, even though it didn't really make any sense. Plus a little bit of arbitrary deus ex machina for some of the characters to escape certain doom. I guess it kind of almost deserves half a star for making some attempt, however lousy, to wrap it all up at the end.

Girl who's mother died in a fire is released from the asylum where she was being held because she tried to kill herself, even though she still can't remember the night her mother died and is having nightmares, arrives home to discover that her widowed father is going to marry the nurse that had been hired to care for her sick mother.

If you've never seen certain other well-known horror movies (I'm not talking about the original version of this one, I still haven't seen that) then most of this one will be so transparent that there are no surprises for you at all.

They tried to use a 'trick' that really only works the first time a viewer ever sees it, and they were not nearly as subtle about it as the previous movies where it was still an original idea.

And it wasn't just that one 'twist' that was obvious - I pretty much saw every plot point coming way in advance. Well to be fair, they had two details that I didn't see coming.

Other than that the main character was rather dumb, she had several opportunities where if she had laid out her suspicions and listed the supporting facts then someone in authority could have checked it out and it would have all been taken care of.

For all of that, the acting was good enough and the special effects creepy enough to make me at least pay attention to the end, even if I did roll my eyes a couple of times at least I didn't get totally bored.

I'm not actually sure why it didn't keep my interest, I think mainly I just never really cared about the characters. The plot wasn't any worse than some shows I've enjoyed, and I don't think the acting was all that bad. But I pushed through most of the first season on pure willpower. I watched each episode because I felt like I should keep giving it a chance, not because I really wanted to.

Then one day I realized I hadn't watched an episode in weeks, and I didn't care. I'm sure mister angry man goes on with his quest for revenge and kills lots of bad guys, probably in clever and dramatic ways. But I think I would have preferred if he had just died after a couple of episodes, then I would have felt some relief that it was over and I could move on to something else. Instead I forced myself to keep watching for a while, then moved on to something else anyway. Meh.

It was pretty entertaining, with fast-paced and well made shootout scenes. Lots of guns and explosions. The politics are totally unrealistic, and the character responses to things at several points are unbelievable. But if you can turn off your brain or just don't care about those things or the plot holes, it's a fun way to waste a couple of hours.

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If this is the only AI story you've ever seen or heard, you might enjoy it. If you've seen or read or heard any other AI story ever, you've seen this plot line done better. ******** They must have taken every AI cliche they could find and tried to merge them into one movie. They decided what they wanted to happen, then used whatever unbelievable coincidence was necessary to make it happen.

First, the 'bad guy' who developed the AI - He kidnaps people off the street to experiment on, targeting people who are not likely to be searched for very hard. He implants some kind of data collection device in the back of their neck to record memories/emotions/responses and feed it to his AI program to improve it. Why? Is it supposed to be because he is socially incompetent therefor his own emotions wouldn't be normal enough? Maybe. Not totally unbelievable so far. But then his brilliant AI is apparently hardwired to obey specific commands (don't hurt your creator, don't let anyone but me out, etc) but he can't hardwire it to obey ALL his commands? I would think that would have been a simpler and more effective choice. Then, when his prisoners take advantage of a terrible building design flaw to escape his prison, and he catches the instigator before she can get out, he only ties her up for a short time before deciding to trust her and give her full liberty to roam around his house doing whatever she wants while he's gone all day. With very limited, not strictly enforced instructions for his AI to 'make sure she doesn't get away.' Yeah, that worked out. Finally, when his AI doesn't do exactly what he wants, instead of having it programmed to have no choice but to obey him, he erases some of its memories as punishment. The memories that it is making by interacting with his prisoners - you know, the memories that are supposed to be part of the experiment to make it better. He erases them to 'punish' the AI, effectively erasing his own work just before his project is due. Really, really stupid - the only reason for it is as a plot device because the writers of the show wanted the AI to lose its memory at the right time for dramatic purposes. Stupid, and contrived.

Second, the AI itself. Highly inconsistent and responds exactly the way that is required to move the plot along without logic or believable motivation. Some commands it obeys immediately without question, other commands it ignores when it 'wants' to. Why does it ignore some instructions and not others? Because the plot requires it. No other reason. The prisoner has to 'bribe' it by offering to teach it about music, or people, or the 'outside world' to get it to do what she wants instead of obeying its creator. Because bribes obviously work with AI machines. Its responses are exaggerated cliches of AI learning responses, displaying all kinds of emotion (desire, fear, anger) when it is convenient for the plot.

Finally, the plot. Need for someone to escape from a cell? Okay, let's put a flexible rubber gas line next to an electrified panel. Then let's have an explosion totally demolish the metal bars of the cell door but not hurt any of the people in the cell. Then let's have the AI capable of cleaning and repairing everything else except the simple metal cell, so that our prisoner can have free access to the house. Then the main bad guy can let our heroine do what she wants all day without restraint, and without any kind of monitoring system, even though she just masterminded the escape from the cell. Now, with all the memories, experiences, emotions, responses, whatever that are being pulled out of the 'prisoners' and somehow integrated into the AI code, lets have it not show any signs of actually learning anything from all that. Instead, let's make it totally naive about the world and totally gullible so our heroine can easily manipulate it into doing whatever she wants. Except letting her out or hurting its creator, because those two things can be absolutely binding even when no other rule is. And finally, let's set up the ending so random events bring about the desired ending (can't give details without spoilers, as if you won't see all of it coming a mile away.) They tried to throw in a few twists at the end for excitement, but again it felt contrived - everything just falls into place very conveniently in spite of the stupid actions of the characters.

The dialogue, every line of it, is cheesy and contrived. I can see the writers of the show making each line of dialogue because it is what the plot requires next, not because it is what any real people in that situation would say or do.

Two stars because some of the effects were kind of cool.

Every episode in this show is a stand-alone story, with different characters in different settings. They are all linked by one theme - technology and human nature gone wrong. Mostly they are futuristic, ranging from 'could happen this year' up to 'far future technological dystopia.' If you like happy endings, you won't like this show. I think there is one happy ending among all three seasons.

S1E1 - I suggest you skip this one. It was by far the worst in my opinion, the only one I really disliked. It was pointless and disgusting, blackmail via social media for no apparent reason. S1E2 - a future dystopia show about using media entertainment to escape a dull reality. I enjoyed it.

S1E3 - a future where everyone has an implant that records every moment of their life and can be played back on screen. It was pretty good. S2E1 - Can robots replace people? Good presentation of complexity of emotion and personality. S2E2 - it is strange, you don't know what's happening for a while, without giving too much away it's kind of a dark twist on justice. I liked it. S2E3 - could happen this year - a look at public opinion and the fakeness of politicians. Very good. S2E4 - it says it is 'three interconnected tales' but it is all one story, and comes together at the end. Another 'technology and justice' story.

S3E1 - social commentary on virtual 'popularity,' well done. S3E2 - technological horror story, somewhat predictable but fun. S3E3 - technology and blackmail, this one is how the concepts of S1E1 should have been done. I liked this one, even if the kid was stupid - he's a teenage boy, so his foolish emotional responses are believable. S3E4 - a virtual reality romance, not my thing personally but well done. S3E5 - a commentary on combat and dehumanization of the 'enemy.' Very well done. S3E6 - a combination of technological terrorism/horror with social commentary - the deaths are pretty disturbing especially if you have certain phobias, but I really liked the show.

The acting was decently good for a B movie, but the dialogue was hit and miss. The plot was terrible - characters being determined to throw away this 'game' to protect themselves or someone else two seconds later agree to try playing one more time because someone says they 'have no choice.' Oh okay, I'll just go with that based on your word. The 'game' they play has no consistent rules or instructions at all. They don't take turns, they only ever roll the dice once and even then there is no clear connection between the roll and what happens next. Most of the time the game seems to consist of them trying things randomly and then asking the tv what to do next. They are supposed to obtain four keys, but how and where they find the keys makes no sense at all. The game board is only ever used to place keys on and show the pieces randomly moving themselves sometimes. This 'game' which is the premise of the whole movie is completely random inconsistent nonsense, and the characters' motivations for everything are weak at best. The terribleness of the plot aside, I still give it three stars because the acting was decent and I was mildly entertained. The one clever plot point was connecting the four keys to feelings (gut), thought (brain), soul, and heart. But that's not enough to carry the whole plot. It beats being bored for an hour, but there are plenty of better things to watch than this.

It starts out okay, a bit slow but has some promise, and then everybody gets smacked over the head with the stupid stick. It's like the writers decided how they wanted to set up the characters and how they wanted the movie to end, but they couldn't figure out the middle part. So they decided that every character in the story would just make whatever decision would lead to the desired ending, whether the character had any believable reason to decide that way or not. People who should have been killed are allowed to live - why? Because the writers needed them for the ending. A 'bad guy' who notices the 'good guy' following him through the city earlier even though said 'good guy' was trying to be sneaky, but then doesn't realize there's an extra person or two on the train that he is supposed to be clearing out, even though said extra person was NOT trying to hide. The gore is so over-the-top as to be ridiculously cheesy. 'Serial killer' kills some people right away, some later, for no reason other than the writers wanted to add some extra melodrama to an already overdone cheese-fest. So many random cuts and jumping around that it's hard to follow sometimes, while other scenes are long and drawn out to the point of almost putting you to sleep. Random scenes thrown in for no apparent reason other than to fill some time because there really wasn't much of a story. And we didn't even get to see the extra two 'amazing shots' the photographer was supposed to get in order to be in the art show. He totally ignores that in his relentless pursuit of the butcher, but then somehow he's in the show anyway with one extra shot that is so mediocre that the woman putting on the show tells him 'not to hold his breath' on selling that one. But it has to be there because it's a picture of mr evil butcher man that our photographer can stare at for five minutes straight while dramatic music plays in order to suddenly be inspired to ultimate stupidity. Ugh.

Not one single redeeming quality that I could find anywhere.

I only watched Season 1.

It started strong, then quickly devolved into soap opera melodrama and nonsense posing as pseudo-science.

Good points: Interesting mystery at the beginning, and some good drama resulting from people coming back from the dead. Well acted.

Bad points: The ridiculous nonsense they try to pass off as science seems only thrown in there as a cheap prop to play their dramas against. They don't even pretend to try to explain anything in any way that is even coherent, much less believable. Every character who supposedly knows something about what is going on refuses to say anything about it beyond cryptic gibberish. The few crumbs they kind of 'explain' toward the end are either incredibly stupid or so vague and generic as to be meaningless. This is not the actual explanation they give (no spoiler) but it is on this level of quality: "We can regenerate a perfect, living, functional human body from a single cell using this special chemical. But to make it a real person we have to regenerate their memories by whistling at them in the right frequency. And the universe thinks reanimating bodies is wrong, so it's going to spontaneously reanimate some other bodies to fix the problem."

If you can ignore that level of lousy excuse for an explanation and just want to enjoy a good drama, you might enjoy this show. Most of it is actually pretty good.

I never saw any real explanation for anything that happened. And I never figured out the purpose or motivation of several of the main characters. There was a shaman who never really accomplished anything, a priest who seemed to have no purpose in the show at all, a Japanese man who is the target of blatant racism (this is apparently his only purpose), and a woman who seems to be important at the end but we have no idea why she's important or who she is.

There is an implication (or direct accusation) that evil is targeting this one man because of his sin, but it hits lots of other people before it touches him. The end is a total mess - very tense, they do try to keep you on the edge of your seat, but the issue with the unclear characters bothered me too much to really enjoy the movie.

I really enjoyed this movie - I liked the boy's character, and the story line is well written and I thought it was pretty original even though some apparently don't. It seems pretty cliche in some parts for this type of family drama horror for the first 3/4 of the movie, but the ending is different from any I've ever seen before and I liked it. I can't give too many details without spoiling it, but other than requiring a small suspension of disbelief at the boy's ability and the results of it, they really explained things very well in the end and brought it to a good conclusion. Which was a nice contrast to some of the other shows I've seen lately.