TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film

ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.

Leoni Haney Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

Mehdi Hoffman There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

ddevil2347 ...with one big problem: To fully appreciate it, you have to watch it twice. Yet you probably don't want to, since it is terribly slow and you're frustrated by the confusing editing. The turning point is the first blood which the audience can't know of until the end. And without knowing it, the character development only seems odd and inexplicable. Not to mention the rage of our angry tree or the red wool... But If you know what happened, things are quite different. Especially between husband and wife. The boy's mother, in denial, passes the guilt to her husband. He, on the other other hand, can't deal with that pressure. Alone, without the attention or love of his wife and also loosing the counsel of the grandfather, he builds up enormous rage. They're both caught in a vicious cycle of guilt, anger and violence finally resulting in them killing each other (more or less).Another interesting aspect of the movie is the demise of the patriarch of the house. His pain lies in loosing control. First he struggles with the somewhat strange kid, then his son and daughter-in-law kill his grandchild and finally the girl next door robs the secret grave (the wooden necklace). Without the supernatural ant-part, this could have been very good. I would have killed him off with a stroke or something like that.Fortunally, supernatural scenes are quite rare in this movie. Most of the time they appear in dreams anyway. What's left are the angry ants and a moving branch.The movie's end somehow caught me. The last scene with its disturbing beauty and tranquility and the absolutely awesome credits. So I gave it a second chance before completely dismissing it as a waste of money. You should too. Its the age of DVD - jump to some scenes and re-watch them, you might come to like them too.

mollycat Having just watched Acacia, I find that I have to agree with the negative reviews here. I like Asian, and Korean horror, and I had great expectations for this film. Man, was i disappointed. Watching this, I kept thinking "surely they just do this to catch me off guard later on", and for a while I expected something ingenious to happen. However, I slowly realised that the film really is that bad. It is the cheapest cash in into the Asian horror market I have seen so far. The basic story is perhaps not even that bad, but the way it is filmed it seems like the most laughable plot ever. The tree as a 'scary' device might be okay if used cleverly, but all the filmmaker does is giving us different shots of...yes, a tree, over and over again. He seems to hope that the tree will do all the work for him in terms of tension and build-up, but it just feels like what it is: shots of a tree. For goodness' sake!Slow build-ups can be very effective, and a film that presents the viewer with only few glimpses of what is wrong might deliver good scares, but not Acacia. Sure, we get a glimpse of a child on a tricycle disappearing around a corner, and, yet again, meaningful shots of the tree from above, or underneath, or the side, but these scenes are just not scary. They feel silly, especially because you realise that the director means them to be scary. They simply aren't. Apart from that I agree with some of the other reviewers, that the characters are ridiculous. In particular the one character's 'descent into madness' is laughable. However, what really breaks Acacia is the terrible editing. Its hard to see why scenes were cut together the way they are, but it's bad, and it kills any spark of interrest it might have had. It also makes me feel patronised, because I can see what they are trying to achieve with it, but I cannot believe that they think I would fall for such cheap ploys.There are lots of great Asian ghost films, and lots of bad ones, but this is by far the worst I have seen. They must have been going through the list of 'what to put into ghost movies', and ticked them all off, but in the end they forgot to add the actual movie.

HumanoidOfFlesh "Acacia" stars Hye-jin Shim and Jin-guen Kim as a married couple unable to conceive a child.The husband is a doctor and the wife spends her time judging student art and knitting.Things change when the couple adopts six year old Jin-seong,a mysterious boy obsessed with drawing pictures of an acacia tree that he believes is the reincarnation of his dead mother.Soon the wife becomes pregnant and Jin-seong becomes more unhappy.On one rainy night he disappears mysteriously..."Acacia" is a slow-moving horror film with plenty of creepy atmosphere.It's a psychologically spooky little horror flick with a supremely dark score.The film delivers a few unexpected surprises and is wonderfully shot and photographed,so if you are a fan of Asian horror you can't miss it.8 out of 10.

pinoy_na_man this movie was terrible!!! what a complete waste of time and money, not only for me but for the people involved in shooting this film. The movie is like watching a preview for an hour and a half. Absolutley disgusted with the attempt at film making. Editing is at its worst ever and the main focus of the movie is the wife thinking. Just showing 100 different angles of a person thinking does not make it very interesting! I am speechless...quite possibly this production will be the laughing stock of all intl. films, if any one even notices it. This review is purely fair and reasonable, not being harsh in anyway. The movie was the absolute rock bottom of the movie world. I enjoyed the previews 100x more.