Review of Yogen

Yogen (2004)
7/10
Starts out promisingly enough, but the middle is a little slow, the ending though makes up for the flat middle.
20 July 2005
This movie could have been better, could have been worse. Saw it at Wal-Mart so I thought I would take a chance on it. Kind of your basic Japanese horror, better made than say Ju-rei, but not quite as much horror in it, nothing compared to Ringu or Ju-on of the Japanese horror movies I have seen so far. The movie starts out showing a family coming home from a vacation. Tragedy ensues...a tragedy that was predicted beforehand by a mysterious paper. The father sees this paper right before something bad happens. Then the movie flashes forward three years and it sort of doesn't make sense. This "newspaper of terror" is mentioned, but it seems more like a movie about clairvoyance. The paper is never explained either, what it means or what supernatural event is behind it, I mean I don't want everything handed to me on a silver platter, but this movie just went everywhere for a while. Mysterious guys locked up in loony bins writing predictions on walls, guys who change the predictions but get really bad welts. Then the movie goes into the stirring conclusion that is pretty good, cause you don't know when the end will be. In the end this is a somewhat interesting movie with a rather sad tone to it.
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