First of all, I'm Japanese/American, so there is no language barrier when I watch this; I watch both American/Japanese films.

I watched this with my expectations low, and it was what it was...

This movie seems like it took every cliché in the book and included it in this film.

Clearly the movie is trying to copy the movie "Seven", "Saw", "Scream" (frog mask),"Oldboy"

It's just nowhere near the level of the movie "Seven" or "Oldboy". The production value seems high, but the film's flow is quite bad and messy.

There's just many cheesy moments like the suspect is nearby, runs away, stays around again, dumb car chases (Hollywood influence.... oh, this film is surprisingly produced by Warner Bros),sappy flashbacks...

The villain honestly is not scary and his motives are not interesting. The frog mask guy just comes up really goofier than scary.

The movie just always takes the typical cliché easy-way-out than what could have been more shocking and interesting.

The final ending abrupt "twist", where they tried to make it seem smart, but it's a bit of a corny ambiguous ending.

Well, this film is better than Kiyoshi Kurosawa's "Creepy" film.

I agree with the other review, they tried to make it more like a cheesy action blockbuster than a more intellectual suspenseful movie.

A normal looking guy being the villain would be much scarier than an over- the-top goofy clown.

Museum directed by Keishi Ohtomo which is most famous for his Rurouni Kenshin live action trilogy successful continue the manga adaptation to live action movie trend in Japan.For a guy who already read the manga this movie is a very faithful adaptation to the source material.The movie is beautiful shot with many recreate scene from the original while adding new scene to make the movie more easy to understand for non manga reader.Shun Oguri as the main character is fantastic and Satoshi Tsumabuki as the frog mask killer is menacing although i still prefer the mask in manga cause is way more creepy.My problem is they tone down the violence a little bit when only show the gory aftermath and a new important twist not ruin the movie but still not necessarily

Imagine "Silence of the Lambs" remade with Inspector Clouseau as the lead detective -- except the film is supposed to be serious. Because that's what this is -- Japan's dumbest detective on the trail of a gruesome serial killer.

You could make a drinking game out this film by taking a drink every time the protagonist lets the killer get away. Wait, that might result in acute alcohol poisoning, so you'd better limit the game to every time the detective falls down in the street.

I understand why lazy filmmakers use contrivances to advance the plot, but this is taking it to the extreme.