T.J. Breedlove's review of "7500"
Another great film by the mastermind of the original Grudge series (Ju-on), Takashi Shimizu delivers a unique and horrifying film about a flight filled with multiple varieties of different characters, in which you'll love and hate.
When flight 7500, departs from a L.A. airport, immediately no time is wasted learning what the different personalities attending the flight are like. You have the captain who is attempting to have an affair with a stewardess, a goth girl who has a morbid fascination with death, a bizarre figure who favors in dealing with spiritual dolls, and hair samples of the dead, a young thief taking advantage of an opportunity at the wrong time, a girl praying that the pregnancy test will be negative, a newly wed couple who are obviously not compatible, a paramedic, and newly engaged flight attendants and passengers who are in search for a new beginning in life.
The two I happen to latch onto the most are the Goth girl (and who wouldn't), and the paramedic. While the girl sees life as an out of control spiraling event in which you cant control, her ideology says live life for the moment, no matter how reckless, or apathetic, because life can end at any unexpected moment, where as the paramedic, spent his youth doing the same which led to the decline of his relationship with his fiancé (who is on board as well) grew into the aspect of life is precious and worth holding onto no matter what. Both have obvious conflicting ideas of what a life is worth, one says embrace death while the other tries to fight it.
On the way to Tokyo, a strange man with a mysterious box, is dying under mysterious circumstances, after his demise a unnatural chain of horrific events unfold. people start to disappear, there's a change in pressure, causing everyone to fight for their lives, while holding to what little breath they can muster from faulty oxygen equipment, and overall the fear of facing everyones unique and different fears of mortality, from the germaphobe who hates anyone who she deems racially inferior with different customs and habits, to those who are afraid of small environments.
The film delivers a very claustrophobic feel with mix of old school Japanese horror with crazy pale looking figures attacking the passengers, a stewardess getting snatched up and pulled into an overhead compartment, to overall examination of life and death, and concludes in a twist that is both hair raising and mind blowing. A fantastic film. I will not spoil anything but I highly recommend this one, and after the many delays this film suffered, Im glad I invested the time to see it.
My personal score is a 9 out of 10 This is my opinion, whats yours? T.J. Breedlove
Another great film by the mastermind of the original Grudge series (Ju-on), Takashi Shimizu delivers a unique and horrifying film about a flight filled with multiple varieties of different characters, in which you'll love and hate.
When flight 7500, departs from a L.A. airport, immediately no time is wasted learning what the different personalities attending the flight are like. You have the captain who is attempting to have an affair with a stewardess, a goth girl who has a morbid fascination with death, a bizarre figure who favors in dealing with spiritual dolls, and hair samples of the dead, a young thief taking advantage of an opportunity at the wrong time, a girl praying that the pregnancy test will be negative, a newly wed couple who are obviously not compatible, a paramedic, and newly engaged flight attendants and passengers who are in search for a new beginning in life.
The two I happen to latch onto the most are the Goth girl (and who wouldn't), and the paramedic. While the girl sees life as an out of control spiraling event in which you cant control, her ideology says live life for the moment, no matter how reckless, or apathetic, because life can end at any unexpected moment, where as the paramedic, spent his youth doing the same which led to the decline of his relationship with his fiancé (who is on board as well) grew into the aspect of life is precious and worth holding onto no matter what. Both have obvious conflicting ideas of what a life is worth, one says embrace death while the other tries to fight it.
On the way to Tokyo, a strange man with a mysterious box, is dying under mysterious circumstances, after his demise a unnatural chain of horrific events unfold. people start to disappear, there's a change in pressure, causing everyone to fight for their lives, while holding to what little breath they can muster from faulty oxygen equipment, and overall the fear of facing everyones unique and different fears of mortality, from the germaphobe who hates anyone who she deems racially inferior with different customs and habits, to those who are afraid of small environments.
The film delivers a very claustrophobic feel with mix of old school Japanese horror with crazy pale looking figures attacking the passengers, a stewardess getting snatched up and pulled into an overhead compartment, to overall examination of life and death, and concludes in a twist that is both hair raising and mind blowing. A fantastic film. I will not spoil anything but I highly recommend this one, and after the many delays this film suffered, Im glad I invested the time to see it.
My personal score is a 9 out of 10 This is my opinion, whats yours? T.J. Breedlove