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Pulse [2006]


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Usa butchers yet another great Asian Horror movie
Review date: 2008-09-07 Rating: 2 out of 10

This is not a good movie. The original is far, far better and much more chilling.
One by one all of my favourite Asian Horror movies have been swallowed by the unimaginative American filmakers and regurgitated back as a westernised flop, usually missing the point entirely and re-writing the whole thing.
The reason these movies were any good originally is because they are not western format films and just modestly put the frighteners on you without patronising explanations and 'clues' so often needed in the western format. "Us poor westerners need everything spelled out to us or we just don't get it!" I'm quoting myself here.

IF YOU WANT AN HONEST-TO-GOD SCARE THEN PLEASE WATCH THE ORIGINAL.

READ THE BACK OF YOUR DVDS, MAKE SURE IT'S NOT INSPIRED BY AN ASIAN WRITER, IF IT IS, DO YOUR HOMEWORK AND CHECK TO SEE IF THIS MOVIE HAS ALREADY BEEN MADE.

WARNING, YOU MAY HAVE TO READ SUBTITLES, DON'T LET IT PUT YOU OFF, YOU'LL MISS OUT ON SOMETHING TRULY SPECIAL!

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Interesting
Review date: 2008-03-17 Rating: 6 out of 10

I wasn't sure what to expect from Pulse; I hadn't read any reviews and didn't know much more than it was a 'horror' film.
In recollect I enjoyed the film, although I felt it didn't reach the potential the storyline allowed. While the acting would never win any awards, it was far from bad. I found the cinemograph quite good, helping to nurture a feeling of foreboding, especially the cold blue tint which dominated most scenes.
One of my main criticisms with the film is that I felt the timing was out. Rather than a steady increase in strange happenings and threat, it seems major things would sporadically happen, so the story was furthered through disjointed spurts. The story itself was involving, and rather than another 'ring' but for computers, it broadened out into something much more interesting - although this made redundant the message which seemed to be the precursor to the negative occurrences.
Overall a good film.


This pulse is decidedly weak and thready
Review date: 2008-03-17 Rating: 4 out of 10

The title notwithstanding, this film barely has a pulse of its own. What should have been an exciting thriller somehow comes across as one of the most boring apocalyptic films I've ever seen. The writers and directors were totally focused on the characters fighting to keep their wills to live from being sucked right out of their bodies - but what about my will to live? As a viewer, I was fighting to survive, as well. With electronic ghosts of ill-defined boredom closing in on me with each passing minute and a maze of loose ends to navigate along my way, I consider myself lucky to have come out the other side with my sanity intact.

So, what is this Pulse, anyway? Well, if you don't know, the movie surely isn't going to tell you - not until you're closing in on the end of it, anyway. By then, you won't even care. Sealing yourself in a small area with red tape keeps the pulse out, though, for what it's worth. Personally, I didn't have a problem with the pulse - not as long as it kept eliminating such uninteresting characters as you'll find littering this film. The most comatose of the bunch is Josh (Jonathan Tucker), the dumb hacker who manages to unleash this whole business on the world in the first place. Mattie (Kristen Bell) could use some serious training in the art of applying mascara, but you still wouldn't think the girl would be hard up enough to actually like this dweeb. Through the magic of cyberspace, Josh can't stop being annoying even in death, which leads Mattie and her gang of college buddies into this whole pulse business. Then, before you can say Bob's your uncle, the whole world is full of people either missing or walking around as empty shells of themselves (which actually sounds a lot like real life, come to think of it). So - you guessed it - it's up to Mattie and her new hacker friend to basically save the world.

But how do you stop the pulse, especially when no one in the movie has really bothered to explain just what the heck it is, anyway? Ah, there's the rub. The writers, I'm sad to say, decide to take the easy way out, so don't plan on a wham bam ending to come along and suddenly make you want to stand up and cheer. They don't even bother to address one of the seemingly important secondary plot points they kept bringing up all through the film. Why introduce something into a film on several occasions if you aren't going to follow up on it at all?

Pulse is a sad case of the "if you can't beat them, remake them syndrome" sweeping Hollywood in the last few years. In this case, even Wes Craven seems to recognize the fact that Asian horror is far superior to American horror. I haven't seen the Asian film that Pulse was based on, but it had to have a stronger story that this film did. Hollywood tends to grab an Asian film, disembowel it of all its juicy story goodness (substituting a hefty helping of CGI effects in its place), and expect it to be a success. Maybe someday they'll all figure out that this strategy just doesn't work. No matter how spiffy the CGI is, Pulse's special effects still cry "The Ring" in most viewers' ears. Let me completely doom this movie's prospects for you by comparing it to Fear Dot Com - remember how awful that movie was and how completely let down you felt after watching that trainwreck of a film? You're going to feel the same way about Pulse. Enough said.

Not that bad
Review date: 2008-03-14 Rating: 10 out of 10

Seen it advertised .... thought looks okay will watch sometime .........
saw on sky tonight yes its freaky ... think the aftermath of silent hill
dark skys and the like . I have seen some crap in my time but this is not
will go into my "keep" pilr of dvds . highly recommended.

Slightly missed the eek!
Review date: 2008-03-09 Rating: 4 out of 10

As scarey films go this is about as scarey as a basket of dirty laundry. The plot holes are huge and somethings are never explained. People do stupid things for no reason and there's the usual entering dark rooms without turning the light on, etc.
All in all the story had such promise but the execution lacked any kind of talent, relying on clever camera filters and shaky cam to provide suspense. Give it a miss would be my recommendation - unless I've missed the eek, sorry point.

Product Details/Specifications


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Recording label: Paramount Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Paramount Home Entertainment
EAN: 5014437917935
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 1
Format: PAL,
Release date: 2007-03-05
Audience rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Region code: 2
Running time: 84 minutes
Theatrical release date: 2006
Language: English (Original Language)
Brand: Paramount

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