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Watched it last night, I give it 1/10.

This movie was utterly awful, and really not worth movie go-ers time
and money. It uses all the same scare tactics as the first and the
original Ju-On movies as well as Ringu. It gets extremely repetitive,
and very boring.

It copies films so blatantly that any fan of J-Horror and Asian cinema
will be disgusted by the shameful use of ideas stolen from classics
such as Ringu and other horror using Japanese folklore, and even steals
one scene from Oldboy. It will be displayed to a predominantly western
audience who most of which will be oblivious to that fact.

American re-makes are getting worse and worse, and even when Japanese
directors give them a hand, its obvious the Americans get the last
word. I beg of Hollywood companies to leave Asian cinema alone, and
think up some of their own ideas instead of ruining classic movies just
to line their pockets with more money from ignorant western audiences.

Whether you're a fan of Asian or American horror, the mix of the two
here will leave you feeling unsatisfied as the blending of the two is
very far from subtle. They adopt the idea of multiple characters and
story lines based around the same horror element (seen in such movies
as Kairo) but does it badly, in a Tarantino style which just doesn't
work for a horror.

The acting on the whole was average, however the main Japanese
schoolgirl sounds like she belongs in a badly dubbed martial arts
movie. The 1/10 is awarded to the movie simply for seeing that same
girl in a very short skirt.