The Wailing
I read the high rated positive reviews on certain websites: it's clear that they are bots/affiliate up-voters. This movie is not almost an 8/10. Not for the western market.
The acting is way too buffoonish:
- grossly incompetent, cartoonish officers,
- a cowardly police captain,
- buffoonish others who for some reason cannot take rational decisions.
Maybe this is a cultural difference between the west and Korea, as to what good acting is and what is expected.
There's also the sloth of the movie. There's no reason to move a camera agonizingly slow, extend conversations without providing anything useful or walk slowly just to pad time. Then there are Korean cultural references which cannot be understood by the viewers in the Western world and so parts of the movie get lost to them (us).
My biggest complaint is that the clownish acting isn't in sync with a horror story of this kind.
The acting is way too buffoonish:
- grossly incompetent, cartoonish officers,
- a cowardly police captain,
- buffoonish others who for some reason cannot take rational decisions.
Maybe this is a cultural difference between the west and Korea, as to what good acting is and what is expected.
There's also the sloth of the movie. There's no reason to move a camera agonizingly slow, extend conversations without providing anything useful or walk slowly just to pad time. Then there are Korean cultural references which cannot be understood by the viewers in the Western world and so parts of the movie get lost to them (us).
My biggest complaint is that the clownish acting isn't in sync with a horror story of this kind.
Mini Review: I read the high rated positive reviews on certain websites: it's clear that they are bots/affiliate up-voters. This movie is not almost an 8/10. Not for the western market.Buffoonish characters. That's the main theme here. Maybe it works in Asia or Korea. I don't know.
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