{"id":11812,"date":"2006-09-02T11:07:41","date_gmt":"2006-09-02T15:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=11812"},"modified":"2006-09-02T11:07:41","modified_gmt":"2006-09-02T15:07:41","slug":"pulse-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/02\/pulse-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Pulse (2006)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"12puls.600\"<\/a>This is my review, I\u2019m writing it right now, on my computer, on my black keyboard, currently I\u2019m very sleepy, and I\u2019m hoping to catch some sleep after I\u2019ve finished my work, I\u2019m writing this review of \u201cPulse\u201d, a movie, that came out in theaters. Tedious? Yes. But that\u2019s what sitting through \u201cPulse\u201d was like, a remake that feels it needs to hold our hand and explain every little plot aspect to us every minute of its entire fucking run time. Tedious, no? Well, if you haven\u2019t heard, we\u2019re too stupid to understand a story, so Dimension has to guide us through every single character and sub-plot just because we can\u2019t catch up.<\/p>\n

\u201cPulse\u201d is a remake for those who just were upset at the confusing esoteric nuances to \u201cKairo.\u201d That\u2019s a film you either love or hate for the same reason. It doesn\u2019t explain everything. It leaves things to our imagination. It uses imagery to divulge the situations and not dialogue. It\u2019s a riddle wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a Japanese horror film. \u201cPulse\u201d is the opposite. What was \u201cKairo\u201d? \u201cKairo\u201d was a statement for the technology obsessed folks in Japan on the evolution of technology. It was a statement on how as technology grows, we grow further and further apart and fade into relative obscurity even though we feel we\u2019re connecting with one another. Human contact is lost even though we\u2019re under the delusion that we\u2019re more connected now than ever before. And we end up so disconnected that we don\u2019t even notice Armageddon on our doorstep. \u201cPulse\u201d is basically just turned into another supernatural thriller like \u201cWhite Noise.\u201d It\u2019s just \u201cWhite Noise 2\u201d in the end. Sonzero\u2019s film resorts to everything Kurosawa didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

There are jump scares, a pop rock soundtrack, the twang of the score, and the writer vainly attempts to add sub-plots to our characters that won\u2019t come into any sort of relevance in the future. Production wise, Sonzero\u2019s direction is pretty good. He manages to take a basically limp story and turns it into a visually appealing show of special effects and vivid surreal imagery that I truly enjoyed looking at. Good going, Sonzero. \u201cKairo\u201d and its flair were in the fact that the characters in the film were disconnected and were forced to connect to live. This is just another clich\u00e9 teenybopper low-grade techno pop thriller. The director does mimic one of the most effective scenes in \u201cKairo\u201d with a character\u2019s discovery of the specters up close and personal, but much of that is lost because the director truncates it and fails to deliver its pure tension seeped momentum.<\/p>\n

I mean, what\u2019s the rush here? Why not add on thirty more minutes for focus, and pacing? As for Bell, she plays her character as best she can, but you can\u2019t expect much when her character is made up only of whimpers, screams, reactions, and one-liners like \u201cOh my god,\u201d and \u201cYou\u2019re not real.\u201d Meanwhile, the film is basically filled with plot holes. How did the original creator get this \u201cvirus\u201d on the attachment? Is this really a virus? Why do the ghosts suck souls and return? And even when Mattie learns that the ghosts spread through technology, and watches news reports about it, she still has her computer on with her internet hooked up, and uses her cell phone at every turn. How can we possibly root for a person this idiotic? It\u2019s a shame start Bell\u2019s not able to explore her acting abilities to the full effect here.<\/p>\n

In \u201cPulse\u201d she\u2019s just Faye Wraye, doing nothing but standing around whimpering, screaming and spouting one-liners, and Bell is so much more talented than that. The characters that surround our blonde dimwit Mattie are just there to die. They appear, we focus on them briefly, and they simply disappear; thus the talents of Rick Gonzalez and Ron Rifkin are wasted. The film is only a little over an hour and the writers never bother to take out another twenty minutes to focus on characters, and tension. I\u2019m currently in my early twenties, and I wish there\u2019d be more films out there that didn\u2019t cater to people my age, because most films catered to us really suck. Yes, it\u2019s true, \u201cKairo\u201d is twelve times better in terms of story, intelligence, and effectiveness that \u201cPulse\u201d can\u2019t even touch. And that\u2019s because the potential it has to be an adult thriller is ruined because it\u2019s just more teen marketed crap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is my review, I\u2019m writing it right now, on my computer, on my black keyboard, currently I\u2019m very sleepy, and I\u2019m hoping to catch some sleep after I\u2019ve finished my work, I\u2019m writing this review of \u201cPulse\u201d, a movie, that came out in theaters. Tedious? Yes. But that\u2019s what sitting through \u201cPulse\u201d was like, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[409,477,703,752,835,1008,1087],"class_list":["post-11812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-ghosts","tag-horror","tag-mystery","tag-p","tag-remake","tag-supernatural","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}