Movie review: Three... Extremes

Apparently this became a bit of a cult hit in Asia. It's really a trilogy of unrelated short films, sort of in the horror genre, of so it was sold. Each is made by a big name young director from Japan, Hong Kong and Korea.

The first, "Box", is really more weird pretentious artsy fartsy drivel than horror, with a side of incest that is. It's about... a box or something, with twin kids, and one getting burnt in the box... yeah, whatever. "Dumplings" is more in line with low brow horror movies reliant on shock than chills. It's too bad too, because the premise of this one had the most promise. It only touched on the most shallow reflexes one would expect from eating dumplings with unsavory fillings. But it just relied on depiction of a bloody abortion and flashed a few frames of the unmentionable. I didn't like either of the first ones. Interesting at times, eliciting knee jerk reactions in others, and sometimes making me feel like I was touched in inappropriate places. Icky.

The last, "Cut" is a bit better. A bit like the premise of Saw, about making certain lose-lose choices. But at another level, it was about guilt and life not as great as it's cracked up to be.

Three... Extremes 1/2