Tsukiko (Moe Arai) is sisters with Tomie (Miu Nakamura). The former girl joined the school's photography club while feeling that pinch of jealousy to the latter girl who is the "it" kind of girl in school--pretty, sexy and dashing. Tsukiko has suppressed her rather insecurity towards her sister until one fateful event in which Tomie has got skewered by a crucifix-figured metal from shoulder piercing through her stomach. The helpless Tsukiko had nothing else to do but to scream her lungs out and slip her grip on her camera tapping on the ground.
In the age of when Tsukiko and her family is grieving for their loss, Tomie's 18th birthday if she just had continued living, she magically appears at their doorstep. Automatically, the house brightens up with Tomie's sudden arrival but it quickly turns into darkness. Tomie apparently brought home a diabolical entity that brings out the darkness among people. Tsukiko is faced in a mission to suppress this plight.
For an iconic horror series like 'Tomie' to get a reboot must take some guts. It indeed does. Thus safely they entrusted to continue the legacy of the manga-turned-movie horror to a known director in the Japanese industry. But even a great director seemed to be too shapeless in surpassing the bars that the previous films have set.
'Tomie: Unlimited' begins with a promise--and as this cruel life works, I have intuited that that promise is about to be broken. An impressive start is the beginning of the downward endless slope--a sequence in which Tomie gets skewered. Plausible acting by Miu Nakamura that decides to be genuinely creepy and then the sequence was followed by bizarre and peculiar moments--let me rephrase that: utterly bizarre and too peculiar. This is understandable 'cause the current director of the film's personal flavor.
The problem here is, 'Unlimited' never runs out of surprises and twists. And half way the movie, you'd feel that the material itself starts as convoluted as it could get. It twists your mind until you get tired; it cracks your skull because you ought to think too much.
Technically though, 'Unlimited' is a well-put-together type--well-paced and well-acted; but cheap effects and shapeless story line does all the erosion. But even I think of its technicality, 'Tomie: Unlimited' is a tree with an unknown seedling--or better put, we don't know if there's any seed it grown from at all.
'Tomie: Unlimited' begins with a promise--and as this cruel life works, I have intuited that that promise is about to be broken. An impressive start is the beginning of the downward endless slope--a sequence in which Tomie gets skewered. Plausible acting by Miu Nakamura that decides to be genuinely creepy and then the sequence was followed by bizarre and peculiar moments--let me rephrase that: utterly bizarre and too peculiar. This is understandable 'cause the current director of the film's personal flavor.
The problem here is, 'Unlimited' never runs out of surprises and twists. And half way the movie, you'd feel that the material itself starts as convoluted as it could get. It twists your mind until you get tired; it cracks your skull because you ought to think too much.
Technically though, 'Unlimited' is a well-put-together type--well-paced and well-acted; but cheap effects and shapeless story line does all the erosion. But even I think of its technicality, 'Tomie: Unlimited' is a tree with an unknown seedling--or better put, we don't know if there's any seed it grown from at all.
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