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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
A Nice Idea ...,
By Movie Lover (UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Acacia [DVD] [2003] (DVD)
Given the write-up for this movie, I watched this in the hope that there would be some similarity to the scenes involving the tree in the first Poltergeist film as I remember these as being quite creepy. Sadly however there wasn't.
Acacia has a sorrowful feel to it and you find yourself bonding with the little orphaned boy. However, there was no real character-development and therefore it's hard to relate to or even care about anyone else. On the whole I found this to be disappointing and feel that classifying this as a horror was misleading. It's better described as an intense family drama. That said - it's nicely filmed with some good acting, especially from the youngsters. In this respect I would rate it with 3 out of 5 stars. The 2-star rating given above is based on its merits as a horror. Better to rent than buy - unless it's particularly cheap.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
No horror at all....,
By Tsuki (Portugal) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Acacia [DVD] [2003] (DVD)
... but overall it is a good movie to watch.
A couple adopt a child because apparently they cannot have a child of their own. The child is brilliant and he is always drawing. He is quiet and lovely. Everything changed when the couple finally is able to have a child. The adopted children feels like he is being put aside and disappears. By the time of his disappearance, the acacia tree starts to have new leafs and flowers (it was supposed to be dead). What happened to the tree? Like the others wrote, this is not an horror movie, but a family drama one. It is nice, but pay attention to the ending or you may be a little confused.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Not horror - a supernatural family drama,
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This review is from: Acacia [DVD] [2003] (DVD)
It's a sad feature of the success of Asian film now that much of it is immediately compared with the most commercially successful films (Ring,The Grudge etc). Since most of these films fall within the horror genre, so many new films are being marketed in the same way. This is not a horror film, although a few scenes could certainly be described as disturbing.
The story centres round a couple who, after being unsuccessful in having a child, decide to adopt one. The child never seems to bond with its adopted parents and when the mother finds out she is pregnant, it becomes increasingly alienated from its adopted parents. It is a sad film depicting suffering on the part of the child and also the parents. The acacia of the title refers to the tree in their garden that mysteriously begins flowering only after the disappearance of the adopted child. Well worth watching, but don't get caught up in the commercial aspirations of Asian cinema. Not all Asian horror is good film, and not all good Asian film is horror.
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