Very well executed

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

While I really liked this, I am very confused as to what actually took place during the last 30-45 minutes. Being that I have to read subtitles, could mean that maybe some of what happened was, quite literally, lost in translation. For it's genuine creep factor this movie is still gonna get a decent score regardless of my misunderstandings of some things. Asami has a lot of style but I swear if she said deeper even one more time, I was prepared to toss my laptop across the room.

There are a few moments of explicit gore, but nothing even marginally scary or suspenseful about this film. The plot is sadly kind of pedestrian, the dialogue is juvenile, the ending predictable, and I found myself struggling just to keep my attention focused on the screen. The lead actress does an adequate job of her role, but otherwise, this film is a real yawn. I'm a big fan and a bit of a connoisseur of Asian horror films, and so my opinion is not based on not understanding the twists or not appreciating Asian-style horror. But horror films should keep you guessing. They should shock you, disturb you, and the scenes should linger in your mind long afterwards. This movie offers none of those things. I suspect a lot of the reviewers who gush about what a masterpiece this film is are folks who will gush over anything that the media claims is genius, just to seem as though they are cultured and have a sophisticated sense of what qualifies as "art". If you want something that messes with your mind, you're much better off seeing "Ju-On" or the deliciously twisted "Tale of Two Sisters." But as for "Audition" being a top-ten Asian horror film, I wouldn't even place it in the top hundred. Two stars out of ten.

loved the concept, tolerated the so-so story, admired certain scenes and moments and the filming etc ... and there is no doubt its director CAN make watchable movies that many will applaud (as we can see by the so many positive reviews here too) but ...but i just had to quit watching it towards the end, about when the girl is alone in the room with the man, having her own ways with him ...maybe that was too much? dunno ... or maybe it's going to end much better than i expected? i doubt so 'cause the movie has finished off telling its entire story by then and left nothing to be desired unless one's into watching (and enjoying?) gore ... maybe i'll watch the rest later, maybe not ... after all, i'm not the only person who ''left the theater in the middle of the show'' when watching this movie ...back to the concept of the movie though, yes, it is a very important and sensitive issue the movie is addressing, and i am in full agreements with the writer of the story in pointing out today's emotionally troubled and "tortured" girls and women in highly advanced and materialistic societies, where art is for money and money's for the rich only, who may not care so much about the arts anyway ...only have one question here though: if badly treated women can treat potentially good men so harshly, then how would a badly treated man treat a potentially good woman? let's not forget: although "Women Are Always Right No Matter What!", we do however live in a time that many women cheat too, freely, openly, mercilessly, and at times even humiliating men to so high a degree one thinks maybe today's men are only the subjects of females historical revenge of males!? but there are quite a number of men who are cheated brutally by some women yet many of those men don't go around taking revenge on other women in such an unjust manner, do they? is the morale of this story then women are potentially more violent than men? i don't think so ...in the end, this movie is all about torture and violence and gore, and in a sick manner, unfortunately! from a really good start and rather good climax, it suddenly turns into a cheap gore movie the likes of which are so many around these days ... well, "these days" as of the 1990s and 1980s at least ... maybe this is a movie that ends that era? and tries to do it as most gracefully as possible? is it? i don't think so about that one either!that is why although i was going to mark this movie with a 10/10, i had to change my mind and gave it only 03/10 ... still would give the concept 10/10 anyway ...

Well, on the strength of the IMDb rating and the desire to branch out a little more in my film watching, I sought out 'The Auditon'.Unfortunately, though I credit the acting, the gory effects and general plot, this film just wasn't for me and I can't get 2 hours of my life back.In a nutshell, if you like mind trippy films from the likes of David Lynch, go for it. Thrillers/Dramas like Jacobs ladder, Shutter Island, martha marcy may marlene (though I was a bit irked by that ending) are fine by me but this isn't one of them. I like my films to make sense. And this, just doesn't. Maybe it's on a level I just don't get. I hope not, I'm pretty switched on but there are things in this film that are not explained and are deliberately duplicitous (to me anyway). I don't mean ambiguous, I mean they left me thinking 'I don't understand! How can things happen two different ways!?' I find this really annoying, not clever, just annoying and an unfulfilled film watching experience.I try not to read reviews before watching a film, especially if they scream spoiler alerts, but in this case had I done so I would have moved onto something else. Hence in this review I have deliberately tried to avoid any specifics about the film.Hopefully it may appeal to those who like those genre of films and watch it, and bump those who are similar to my thinking onto something else!Thanks.