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63To say Wes Craven's rewrite of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 2001 "Pulse" isn't as bad as it could have been sounds like faint praise, but Kurosawa's "Pulse" is one of the true masterpieces of recent Asian horror, and the track record for Hollywood horror redos isn't great.
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60American director Jim Sonzero has taken the same campus setting and plot and added some rationale by "science-fictioning" it.
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50If Pulse is unsurprising as a horror movie (come on: chalky, soul-sucking freaks again?), as a campaign against the Internet, digital piracy, cellphones, and anything that computes anything (like laptops or brains), it's a riot.
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42In this American remake of the spooky, more-atmospheric-than-coherent 2005 J-horror thriller, the ghosts blink and crackle into existence with an electromagnetic sputter, but really, they're not so different from the gauzy, see-through spirits of yesteryear.
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42Ultimately, the glacial pace kills Pulse. What was dreadful and trance-like in the original feels here like nothing-much-at-all sandwiched between some stock horror jolts.
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40A horror film dealing with the terrors lurking via our computers, cell phones and other electronic devices, Pulse isn't nearly as scary as watching your hard drive crash or having your BlackBerry conk out in the middle of a vital call.
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40An unrewarding experience that won't scare you, but might make you think twice before opening email attachments.
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The American version of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's "Pulse" mimics the plot fundamentals, but lacks any traces of Mr. Kurosawa's creepy minimalism and conceptual rigor.
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30A dumbed-down remake of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's disturbingly abstract Japanese horror film.
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30The remake begins with the same premise and appropriates the most striking visuals, grafting them onto a more explicable but equally dull George Romero-style doomsday scenario.
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25Hideously ugly to look at and not even worth following.
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25Pulse bears more than a slight resemblance to a 1994 American horror called "Ghost in the Machine." They didn't screen that stinker in advance for critics, either.
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25Has maybe a half-dozen moderately frightening scenes.
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25It's not scary, it's not chilling, and it's not interesting.
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Tedious, baffling and ultimately laughable.
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20Laughter erupts during scenes and certain close-ups that were designed to induce screams.
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11It's a curiously dull Americanization of one of the finest examples of subtle, moody J-horror out there.
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10Here, the CG effects are plentiful, but the scare factor rarely rises above the level of a viral email, and the desaturated color scheme of Sonzero and cinematographer Mark Plummer makes every frame look as though it was developed in a solution of vomit and ash.
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DanK.10Great Film, genuinely scary at times. loved it