Pulse
Warning: This is a movie review, and might spoil the movie for you. If you have not seen it, and plan on seeing it, then you might want to not read any further.
I went to see Pulse Sunday night. I mainly went to see the creepy parts. I really enjoy being creeped out, and the trailers made it look pretty good in that area. Good thing the movie was creepy in the good parts because the bad parts were really slow and drawn out.
The opening scene was pretty good, but it crawled to a slow after that. It took another 20 minutes before anything important, exciting, or interesting happened. I almost got up and walked out, but I decided to get my $7.25 worth out of the movie. I’m kind of glad that I stayed. Once things got moving, they stayed moving. The flick was ony 90 minutes long, but it felt more like 120.
The premise of the movie is very interesting and strikes home with me. A set of engineers managed to tap into the realm of the dead and gave them a gateway to the land of the living through electronic devices. Anything on the Internet, cell phone networks, Blackberry network, or some other connection becomes a gateway to between the dead and the living. I happened to have two cell phones with me while at the movie, and I knew that after the movie I as going to get online and type up this review. I know how hard it would be for me to give up everything that I have in my life (since most of it is technology-based) in order to survive.
For the entire movie, I was waiting for the “magic bullet” to appear for the protagonists, but it never does. You think they have a way to stop the dead spirits, but that fails miserably after a hopeful few moments. It turns out that the living are forced to become Ahmish-like and shun all networked devices in order to survive. The dead take over the cities, networks, cell phones, and PDAs of the world. It’s a really bleak and depressing ending to an otherwise mediocre movie.
I’m just glad that it scared me in various places. That’s what I paid my money for, and that’s what I got. I’m glad that I saw the movie, even though this review may sound otherwise. If you’re a horror movie fan, then go see it. If you’re not into the creepy scenes, twisted people, and startling events, then stay home.
