let me start off by say that i love the original grudge . it be bar none one of the scary and most hair rise experience i have ever have in a filled movie theatre . i be not kid . be a self declare japanophile also make the flick look well in my eye ( if the setting have be change to some american suburb i probably would have end up hat the film ) . that say . this movie be a complete mess . i would not say it suck and because a ) the movie do have some good point and b ) it suck be the lame put down in the history of lame put down . so what do the movie have go for it . well and for starter it have a pretty cool look represent through filter and the use of bleak and wash out colour and takashi shimizu almost recreate the downbeat and angst ridden atmosphere of the original . a few scene be genuinely shock and unpredictable . unfortunately and the rest of the film be just plain bad . period . the story be all over the place and needlessly tell tarantino style and i. e. the scene be out of chronological order . this technique be pointless in the case of this movie and it merely make thing more confusing . frankly and a straightforward plot would have work well . the original be also lack plot wise and but it do make sense and the film more than make up for it thin plot with lot of scare and a genuinely tense atmosphere . grudge 2 have none of these element and be just a waste of time . let not forget the tv show act skill which make the cast of the original grudge look like emily watson and katherine hepburn . simply put and the movie doesn not work . it too slow and too dull and and just not scary enough to make up for the confusing plot ( which add nothing new to the story and by the way and so not even grudge fan will be please ) . oh and and what be it with the old man play japanese peek a boo on the bus . be this suppose to be comic relief . artistic statement . or what .