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This movie really wasted its potential. It could have been complex and tried to addess the issues, but ultimately it sold itself short and turned the whole thing into one big, bad caricature. Whenever it almost did something interesting it felt the need to undercut itself just in case, e.g. revealing that Jeff was a murderer, as if it couldn't make him 'evil enough' (plastic enough) without this extra tidbit. For a while it seemed like it wanted to send mixed messages about good and bad, but ultimately it just didn't bother and turned the whole thing into a pretty ridiculous farce. Things like the absurdity of the girl's dialog could have been forgiven if it wasn't so pointless in the end. The few moments her character is interesting is when the shows signs of weakness or humanity, but those fleeting moments never go anywhere. There's nothing wrong with an emotionless machine if it's offset by something else you can latch onto, but the only other character is a pretty poor fit for that, and the film seems intent on making Jeff's character equally ridiculous as the film goes on. At the end you're left with two absurd, basically evil characters with no depth themselves, and no depth of overall message in the story either. Considering how difficult the film is to watch at times, what was the point if that's all we're left with? The whole movie could have complete turned around if they'd added some interesting twists about half way through, but it simply didn't, instead entering a downward spiral of totally unbelievable crap and increasingly ridiculous characterisation. And considering the subject matter, what sort of underlying message can we extract from it? As far as I can tell the best we can get is something like "if you're a pedo (and a murderer) some cruel ghost girl will come torture and kill you for kicks". Wow, deep. 1.5/5 for so much wasted potential. If you have the balls to make a movie about pedophilia, have the balls to make it a good movie too please.
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