Review of The Grudge (2004) by Matthew J — 29 Dec 2012
"The Grudge" is a creep-fest that doesn't make a whole lot of sense. It's not that the movie is complex, the opposite is true. It just takes a pedestrian ghost story involving vengeance and anger and surrounds it with jolts and more jolts.
Takashi Shimizu doesn't seem concerned with originality or substance as long as he can make creepy ghosts jarringly jump out at characters. While this is scary at times after a while you just stop caring.
Sarah Michelle Gellar does the best she can with a thin role that requires her to just skulk around, look scared and ask questions. And when the answers come they prove to be unsurprisingly and unoriginal.
"The Grudge" is forgettable and mindless.
This review of The Grudge (2004) was written by Matthew J on 29 Dec 2012.
The Grudge has generally received mixed reviews.
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