TaryBiggBall It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Murphy Howard I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Leofwine_draca Here's a film which seems to be all over the place in of story, which is needlessly complicated and as a result feels rushed and unsatisfactory. This is apparently a remake of an Japanese ghost film, given a western twist and cast, and directed by Chinese director Fruit Chan (who made the sickening DUMPLINGS).The story tells of a film crew attempting to shoot a tale about a cursed production, only for themselves to fall foul of the evil spirit of a witch inhabiting the set. The witchcraft/ghost angle is entirely predictable, although there are some cool CGI effects involving swarming flies, but that doesn't stop the film from feeling disted and more than a little unfocused.There are familiar cast here, from a cameoing Eli Roth as a Hungarian director to Henry Thomas and Shiloh Fernandez, but the actors fail to bring life to what is a very stale script. You can tell Chan is trying and indeed DON'T LOOK UP is unsettling in a few places thanks to his efforts, but as with most remakes I'd recommend checking out the original instead.

Peppered_Productions Marcus (Reshad Strik), an aspiring director, sets out to remake an unfinished Romanian horror movie (how he got a production still from a movie no one saw isn't really explained). Mysterious and tragic events plagued the first attempt - the question is: Will this time be any different?We open with a little exposition & look at the last day of the original filming. Hungarian director, Bela Olt, is making a film about a gypsy curse legend. A young Romanian woman makes a deal with the devil, promising her unborn child in return for marriage to a powerful man. The child is born with a mark of the devil, and is eventually tortured to death. The devil will not lift the curse until the crime is brought to light, and another woman carries his demon seed.During filming, it becomes obvious that the set is haunted and cursed - allegedly by the ghost of the gypsy girl herself. The film grinds to a halt as Olt searches out the spirit, and ultimately disappears.Except it isn't exactly told as a flashback. It seems Marcus has some sort of psychic/physical connection to some things haunted/traumatic. We flash between Marcus' seeing seizures & the actual series of events that caused the original film to go unfinished. He sees freaky things.... all the time.Before flying to Europe to make this masterpiece, Marcus visits his dying girlfriend, chased out by her bitter brother.We cut to the winding road to the movie set. Marcus and his producer, Josh (played by Henry Thomas) are being driven by their guide/Guy Friday, Grigore (Lothaire Bluteau). It's not coincidence they make an Igor reference - he is the schlepping, nervous assistant. And, for some reason, in his first scenes, he is dressed like a 70s pimp. He is the first to notice odd characters and happenings on their set - the exact location of the original studio.The cast & crew arrive, including the lovely Romy, who was especially keen to work with Marcus. Almost immediately, problems start on the set. There are horrible smells, power drains, ghosting images, and, of course, gory deaths. And, flies - lots of flies.The fly special effects have been done before - and better (Case 39, for example). Here, they mostly swarm, sometimes leading to death.The film goes back and forth between current happenings and Marcus' seizures. The weird occurrences escalate, strange characters are introduced, and the crew clearly becomes scared, then violently mad.The action culminates in two very convoluted and confusing scenes that first involves Marcus meeting the gypsy devil and becoming part of the story; then, he confronts the effected women in this story - the two actresses playing the original gypsy woman, the real gypsy woman, and Marcus' own girlfriend.Somehow, without knowing what the heck has to be done.... he makes SOMETHING happen.Yeah, very unclear.And, in an outro, there is a scene meant to explain a bit of the story, but is totally unnecessary.Overall, the acting is pretty good, and there are some clever devices used in the movie. However, the plot holes are definitely a major drawback, and the ending was definitely lacking. It was watchable, and middle-of-the-road quality-wise.

raoulcortereal Normally I don't write reviews... although after watching this movie, it marked my life in such ways I had to leave a comment and warn others. Just spare yourself the misery. This movie shows promise at the start, thinking of such urban legends as the filming of The Exorcist... yet sadly it fails to deliver. The plot is very poor to say the least, and the main character inspires as much empathy in his role as a mad director, that by the end of the movie you are actually rooting for something to happen to him. The movie ends, and ends again, then ends strangely... and I now have to find a way to wash my brain of this dreg...

SirFuzzi "Don't Look Up" is a remake of an old Japanese film, following in an almost viral tradition; "The Grudge" and "The Ring" are but two popular titles that have followed this trend. Both are stellar films in their own rights; unfortunately, "Don't Look Up" shows promise only moments before falling flat on its face.From the very beginning of the movie, the viewer is introduced to the significant element: a vengeful spirit seeking to inflict her sorrows on the world. The Romanian Devil Beng, long ago, struck a deal with a woman who would bear this devil's child in exchange for the most powerful man. This would ensure her a life of leisure. It's fairly bread-and-butter as far as backdrop folklore goes, but it sets a solid premise; this is where the solidity ends, as the movie begins to jump... the viewer is treated to an early 20's filming where an actress purportedly "disappears" without a trace. The film was never produced and is never seen. The spirit apparently kills the director of said film, then, and we cut to a man standing in his room, having what can only be described as a seizure. He is apparently capable of seeing apparitions, and writes his sights down for movie plots-- he is a starving-artist director whose odd 'condition' has inhibited his ability to properly shoot a film. He then gets a phone call, apparently to see his sickly (ex, perhaps) girlfriend. She has a vindictive brother who has no love for our director star and tells him to leave his house. Thus the man sets out for Romania to shoot another film based on these otherworldly sights. For those keeping track, at this point, the movie still retains intrigue and a plot that seems to have potential.Plot elements officially lose consistency here. They go to Romania, to the old film studio where the 20's director was killed. And from this studio, there are both strange sounds and awful smells; however, they ignore this and begin shooting. A scene mimics the very first in the movie with the 20's film shooting, and then all hope is lost. The director meets a strange old man with an unsightly growth on his neck who tells him he has been waiting for another to film a movie at the studio. Then, the supposed spirit starts causing wanton death with no real explanation as to why. People get angry and pull a strange hook out of nowhere-- this is a significant element only in that the old man was holding it, and apparently, he was important. Somehow. At this point, the plot and the characters are inexplicably inconsistent; if it is trying to make a knock on the style of "The Grudge," it has missed the critical phase of explanation. There is no talk of the spirit's influence. There is just flies. Lots and lots of flies.At this point, the film has officially stopped making sense. The actress portraying the disappeared actress from the '20s is making her move on the main character, people are still dying at an almost alarming ratio of roughly 1 per every 8 or 9 minutes, and the deaths are still inexplicable, have no allusion or purpose, and just seem to be for the sake of wanton murder. There is a disturbing scene where the main character confronts the spirit, who proceeds to discharge a number of things from her vagina, and he runs. The actress tells him they can spare this girl from her suffering and then the main character's girlfriend comes in from a giant backdrop of glowing white and everything disappears. Someone asks the main character who he's talking to, and he says his girlfriend's name; the reply is simply that she has been dead for a while. It cuts back to him; she's not there. He cries, the police take him away, and the viewer is left wondering, quite frankly, what in the name of Mother Earth just happened. It's revealed that he was hallucinating her all along, but that explains all of five minutes-- if that-- of film. The viewer is left wondering what, why and how the spirit is what it is.In conclusion, "Don't Look Up" isn't necessarily a bad premise; I say this only because I could not grasp the premise fully from the film. There is indeed a spectre, and there is indeed death, but what the relevance is between that, the myth stated at the beginning of the film and the main character, I cannot truly say. However, the operation is awful, the actors as a majority do poorly at their job, and the special effects feel a bit dated to be from 2009. It almost seems as if they had a good film for a rough thirty minutes, and then completed the remainder for homework in a cramped hour in their rooms, under dim lamplight with their sixth can of energy drink in progress. If you didn't pay for it, "Don't Look Up" is an item of mild curiosity. Otherwise, avoid it and rent something else. Anything else in the horror genre ought to be better than this, as few films nowadays lack such basic elements of coherency and continuity.Note: I believe the scenes using the girl's eye are taken directly from "Ringu," the Japanese version of the film "The Ring."