The first third is interesting, but after the murder the plot quickly starts stagnating and keeps going in circles. Once the repetitive hauntings start, the story no longer varies but keeps moving in a more-or-less predictable loop. The movie starts off as an unusual crime horror drama about a poossy-whipped mortician who has the ability to talk to the dead, but devolves unfortunately into a haunted house formula movie after he has revenge on his cheating evil wife and her lover.
At almost two hours it is inexcusably long. I was already starting to lose interest half-way through. You wanna do 110 minutes? You'd better stay away from genre cliches then.
The movie looks like the other Brazilian movies I'd come across recently, that is to say vibrant colours dominate. This is no mono-colour American crap. Brazilians seem to be way ahead in terms of cinematography.
The last scene is inconclusive, revealing yet another flaw in this script.
At almost two hours it is inexcusably long. I was already starting to lose interest half-way through. You wanna do 110 minutes? You'd better stay away from genre cliches then.
The movie looks like the other Brazilian movies I'd come across recently, that is to say vibrant colours dominate. This is no mono-colour American crap. Brazilians seem to be way ahead in terms of cinematography.
The last scene is inconclusive, revealing yet another flaw in this script.