The greatest movie ever!

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

The Uninvited is a movie about two people namely,Jung-won and Yun, who met accidentally and have a developed a friendship as they relate together about the psychological horrors and trauma that they have experienced in life. Both are narcoleptic. As their bond became stronger, they have realized the similarities about they experiences they have undergone and tried to help each other in their daily lives. The story could have been a good one but unfortunately, the plot was extremely slow and its presentation could be confusing to many viewers as it wasn't presented in a straightforward manner,which was the major flaw of the film. One has to realize though that it was directed by a neophyte,Lee Soo- youn. Despite of the many awards he has garnered as Best New Director, one has to realize that his inexperience was evident on how the film was shot. The acting was commendable as far as the leads are concerned. Park Shin-yang as Jung-won and Gianna Jun as Yun, who worked together before in White Valentine, have shown great chemistry. Aside from that, both have excellent performance as people with psychological problems. The Uninvited was definitely not a horror film as advertised. It was a dark film that presented themes on how people try to cope with their their bad experiences and traumas in life. The film could have been better if the story had a conclusion instead of being open-ended and direction were better. But nevertheless,it is worth checking out.

This movie is full of death. Death of children, death of cats, justified death, unfair death, death covered up, death revealed.It's the story of man who should be happy with his life but at its very peak events begin to move around him opening up a past best left forgotten and a gift that is more of a curse.There is nothing happy in this movie, no good endings to anyone or for anyone, but it is well woven and absorbing, it reaches right into the darkest places in your own mind and resonates with the despair you keep hidden away there.Most people will hate it, those that fear the darkness in themselves. But those who like to drag the shadows into the light and study them with curiosity will love this movie.

I won't reveal anything that will spoil this movie if you haven't seen it, but my own impression after seeing this movie is really mixed.I got freaked some times, but there was just way too long between the scary scenes and way too many scenes, where very little goes on.But at the same time, there's an interesting story being revealed, which you just can't miss the ending of. Also there's something very calm and relaxing about the movie - i'm just not sure the director had this in mind shooting the movie.But if you are looking for an action/ghost-packed movie, this is not the one.

I thought I would comment to address the disparity between the relatively favorable comments and the modest rating of 5.8 (as of April 2008) of "The Uninvited." First off, as others have noted, this movie isn't really a horror, at least not in the way most people think of modern Asian horror. It's much more of a psychological thriller. I don't know why it is marketed as a horror, perhaps to cash in on the sizable j-horror crowd. Though I don't personally care that it was not a j-horror (which all seem derivative to me anyway), conflicting expectations were probably one reason this movie got such poor ratings.The second reason is that the plot was ridiculously complicated and confusing. The main character is haunted by recent deaths of two girls on the subway. Yet the plot also concerns the murder trial of two(?) infants by a lady who may have played a role in the death of the subway girls. Meanwhile, the lady has the ability to help others recall traumatic events from their early childhoods. Consequently, the movie jumps all over in place and time. Is this another flashback? Where are we now? Wait, scenes x, y, z were all in one day? Is this for real or in his imagination? What does X have to do with Y?? Who is character abc anyway? This was one of the most difficult movies I have ever watched to keep track of connections between different characters and events.Now I can appreciate a movie with open-ended plots and countering interpretations, but there comes a point where a story is simply poorly told. And this is aggravated by the long run time, over two hours (despite the fact that the DVD box says 96 minutes). Very few movies, IMO, have any business going over two hours, and this was not one of them.Yes, the movie is nicely shot, with some interesting visuals and good atmosphere, but style can only bolster strong substance. Others have compared this movie to The Sixth Sense, but I would compare it more to Unbreakable.