i be a huge fan of the first four ju on project . i own them and and watch them every few month . i lend them to co worker and friend just so they can get a good scare from quality japanese film making . i think takashi shimizu create a great story and and present it very effectively in these four installment . i be somewhat excited about the grudge 2 opening in theater . i saw the first american grudge before watch the four original . the grudge be actually pretty good . of course and the original be well and but i get a good halloween scare from the 2004 american grudge . the grudge 2 start off badly and and go down from there . i keep wait for it to get good and to make sense and to show shimizu talent nothing like this happen . the thing that great about shimizu ju on work be the story . true and it usually tell in a disjointed style that you have to think about to connect it component and but it be still a great story . there be no story in the grudge 2. it be a series of gratuitous death from character that you never have time to even start to care about . the editing be atrocious . disjoint ( a in the japanese original ) be one thing and but the complete randomness of scene sequence be exhaust . i just keep think and this be so stupid and and and no he do not really sell out this much do he . it make me want to walk out of the theater and run home and and watch the original work and simply to reassure myself that shimizu have not always make this dumbed down and generic and boring and non sensical and thrown together tripe . if you really have your heart set on see this movie and i suggest you wait the 2 month to rent it . really . two of the five people in the theater with me walk out about 45 minute into it . i debate on whether to do that myself . go home and clean the house actually sound like a good way to spend my time at that point . i be truly shock at how bad this movie be . let pray sam raimi doesn not put out more cash to make the grudge 3. it just not worth it anymore . sigh .