This time it's also about cell-phones that delivers a death message, but this time to solve the mystery/lift the curse some people have to go to Taiwan, so at least we get a new location in this movie.
This was a kinda meaningless sequel to Takashi Miike's Chakushin Ari (One Missed Call), and the sequel is not even from him either.
First movie was a very commercial horror and especially commercial for being Miike, but I kinda got into it and actually ended up liking it more than I expected me to do, it's was far from brilliant or any thing like that but still a totally ok horror movie.
 
Only thing maybe is that it was somewhat similar to the Korean horror movie The Phone, and The Phone was far much better than One Missed Call. But comparing the first One Missed Call to this sequel, One Missed Call 2 doesn't even come close and that's why I used the word meaningless in the beginning, it doesn't really have anything to offer.
There are a lot of scares and shocks and all that but it doesn't really work and it never gets as scary as you want it to be. Problem is that you've most likely seen this before if you're into Asian horror and it's just repeating itself without adding anything new to the formula.
It's not boring, the movie moves at an ok pace, the actors are good and it's nicely shot but in the end this doesn't really help. I guess a lot of people who've seen the first movie wants to see this one just for the sake of it, unfortunately this is so far from what the first one was it just feels like a waste of time.
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ALTERNATIVE TITLE: Chakushin ari 2
MOVIE YEAR: 2005
DIRECTOR: Renpei Tsukamoto
WRITING CREDITS: Minako Daira
GENRE: Horror
CAST: Peter Ho, Mimura, Asaka Seto
COUNTRY: Japan
RUNTIME: 106 min
RATING: 3/10
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