Anthony Bailey said:Look, my take on it was pretty simple: once you die, you end up in this mirror dimension where you’re just a ghost drifting through a world that’s a perfect, symmetrical flip side of reality.
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Which makes absolutely zero sense.
Alright, fair warning: heavy spoilers ahead. First off, the movie lacks any cohesive set of rules. For instance, the initial suicide happens right in front of the mirrors. Fine, I thought, if you’re in that building and catch a glimpse of a cursed mirror, you're done. But then the protagonist's sister dies despite never even stepping foot in the building, let alone looking into a mirror during her final moments. That was my first point of confusion. Then comes the second half where Jack Bauer tracks down a nun and brings her back to the building, only to somehow destroy the evil and end up back in the mirror world—even though the mirrors themselves were supposedly destroyed. At that point, I was completely lost.
Take the Ju-on series, for example. No matter how many times they revisited it, it worked because the internal logic was clear: you enter the house, you're dead—sooner or later
(though the American "The Grudge 2" broke its own rules, but I won't get sidetracked here). This film is just a collection of "cool" sequences that fail to function as a unified whole. It's a disappointment; I truly hope Aja delivers something more substantial next time.