The idea is simple: once in a while, following a numerical pattern, someone dies in a "cursed" place. The film starts very promising, with a mystery and some interesting characters but as it develops it turns out to be another big fail of script and execution.
In my opinion, some big mistakes and flaws are the following:
The "cursed place" is nowadays a 24-hour shop as it was ten years ago, but the main character finds out that the mystery can be traced back to when it was a bank, almost a century ago. We are always offered the same exterior image but it is quite clear that this shop is in the outskirts of a city, probably an industrial area. Who in their right mind would put a bank in that place 100 years ago? It would have made more sense if it had been in the city centre.
The main character happens to have schizophrenia. Of course a cheap resource to make him appear mad and illogical (again another example of poor knowledge about mental illnesses from script writers). But the thing is that he has physical proof of what he is saying but no one, absolutely no one, believes him or makes an effort to listen to him. Great friends! And why should he be a famous mathematician in order to solve the mystery? The numerical relationship between the murders is quite obvious. Anyone could have easily connected the dots even the so-called friends.
And the ending. Oh! what a cheap ending! The main character talks, out of the blue, with the boy from the future throughout a mirror in order to save him. In the end the movie is like "hey as we can't explain why this curse is happening, we can create an unexpected connexion to the past using magic in order to save the boy. We are not going to provide any explanation basically because there is none." Rubbish. It would have been much much better for instance if it has been their friends from the past who after his death found out about his investigations and tried to save the boy or something like this. Anything but the mirror.
Finally, what kind of mother would bring his son to a place that makes him so scared that he peed on himself and tried to avoid at any costs? What kind of school knows about the bullying and does nothing to prevent it? Why did they show us that the daughter of the first murderer didn't have a hand? It had nothing to do with the plot.
5 out of 10 and I am being generous. Although its flaws what it really ruins the whole experience is the cheap ending.
In my opinion, some big mistakes and flaws are the following:
The "cursed place" is nowadays a 24-hour shop as it was ten years ago, but the main character finds out that the mystery can be traced back to when it was a bank, almost a century ago. We are always offered the same exterior image but it is quite clear that this shop is in the outskirts of a city, probably an industrial area. Who in their right mind would put a bank in that place 100 years ago? It would have made more sense if it had been in the city centre.
The main character happens to have schizophrenia. Of course a cheap resource to make him appear mad and illogical (again another example of poor knowledge about mental illnesses from script writers). But the thing is that he has physical proof of what he is saying but no one, absolutely no one, believes him or makes an effort to listen to him. Great friends! And why should he be a famous mathematician in order to solve the mystery? The numerical relationship between the murders is quite obvious. Anyone could have easily connected the dots even the so-called friends.
And the ending. Oh! what a cheap ending! The main character talks, out of the blue, with the boy from the future throughout a mirror in order to save him. In the end the movie is like "hey as we can't explain why this curse is happening, we can create an unexpected connexion to the past using magic in order to save the boy. We are not going to provide any explanation basically because there is none." Rubbish. It would have been much much better for instance if it has been their friends from the past who after his death found out about his investigations and tried to save the boy or something like this. Anything but the mirror.
Finally, what kind of mother would bring his son to a place that makes him so scared that he peed on himself and tried to avoid at any costs? What kind of school knows about the bullying and does nothing to prevent it? Why did they show us that the daughter of the first murderer didn't have a hand? It had nothing to do with the plot.
5 out of 10 and I am being generous. Although its flaws what it really ruins the whole experience is the cheap ending.