 Thanks for checking out this movie review video. So this is for the 2019 film Warning do not play and this is a shutter original film when I'm putting this review up recording it and putting it up It is before the film is actually hitting shutter So it hits shutter on June 11th, which is a Thursday. This is going up like two days ahead of time So therefore this is a no spoilers review because if anyone wants to watch a film I don't want to spoil anything But if you've already seen the film and you're finding this review you'll understand what I'm talking about So you can still watch this review even though it's not spoilers. You'll get it So this was written and directed by Kim Jin Won who did a film called the butcher which I think Directing is good with this film. It looks good cinematography is good directing is good acting is quite good in this film in my opinion I was very impressed with the acting to be honest There are a few things I don't love about this film But I would say upfront that for anyone who is into like J horror that you'd probably enjoy this film If anyone's into Korean films in in general, you may enjoy this film I don't know but when I say that if people are into J horror, they would potentially enjoy it I don't want to kind of pigeonhole this as a J horror film because it's not it's kind of like the way it felt to me is like a mix of Like the ring and The Blair Witch Project because it does have that kind of found footage to it now Part of the reason I say Blair Witch Project is because it gets referenced in the film and it's obvious that that's an inspiration for the film also referenced in the film is the Exorcist which maybe a little bit of of A little bit from the Exorcist pulled into this film, but not a ton so just saying The beginning of this is actually a little bit annoying because the way it starts. It's extremely dark It is extremely dark not content wise, but actually like lighting wise. It's unbelievably dark I basically had to put my face on the screen to see what was going on Now those types of things are very very annoying It wasn't bad to the point where you know a movie like Alien vs. Predator Requiem is because it's that whole film Is just 100% dark you can't see anything going on and it's confusing because it's quick shots quick cuts This doesn't do that It's just this way in the very beginning and they kind of get away from that then until there's one part much later on Where you can't see anything, but you can hear things, but that's that works actually so just a little bit annoying in the beginning I hate when when scenes are not well enough lit You just can't see what's going on and it and you're supposed to see something But it's not coming through so that kind of bothered me, but you know as a small portion There is a really cool jump scare early on. I thought it was really well done in this film Probably my favorite moment of the film to be honest even though it's a very small part one of the things that really stood out with that is that the the sound effect used during that Jump scare was very cool and very interesting and very effective and that kind of gets to something else with this film is I do Believe the sound design of this is excellent This is one of the better sound design films that I've come across recently There are so many times where you know films are just the sound design is fine You know it goes with the films That's kind of what you expect with this one. It really stood out as being particularly good They really emphasize sound in a really cool way and a lot of the sound effects that they use are very interesting Not typical for what you'd end up hearing. So I liked it I really liked that auditory aspect of the film The premise that's actually set up in this film early on is a very interesting premise It pulls you in early because it is compelling. It's a compelling storyline now Where it goes from there for me personally it gets a little bit slowed down And that's kind of one of my biggest issues with this is the pacing is not the best I do feel like you know, it's like With credits and everything I was I think it's an hour and 26 minute running time and it feels kind of long So for it to not be super long and it kind of feels long It means some things probably should have been cut down a little bit, you know, maybe throw a little bit more into it Yeah, I'm just saying There's something you see in this film that's supposed to be extremely scary Based off of things that are said in the film. It's supposed to be unbelievably scary The problem is it isn't now This is one of the issues that writers need to stay away from of saying that something is the best or something's the most Beautiful or something's the most scary thing ever things like this you cannot do this just say it's scary say it's You know be more vague you can't say it's like the most scary thing anything anything It's the most scary thing anyone's ever seen you can't do that because that sets the bar like this And let me tell you something you're never gonna reach that bar for each audience member You're setting yourself up for failure with that. It's just something you got to stay away from But like I said, you can just be like, oh, it's something scary That does enough, you know, just Less is more less is definitely more with hyping things up You know think about all the films out there where people say, oh my gosh It was so scary people went to see it and they were passing out and someone had a heart attack and you know there's something like that in this film and it's Then people see it and they're like, I don't see what everyone's talking about now It's much better for people to just experience the film and make up their opinion without all that hype around it Because when there's all that hype, it's going to play worse to the audience because their expectations are crazy high Just saying sorry, I went on a little long on that but you know, I Have a hard time believing the main character would go as far as she does in this film You'll see what I mean when you see the film or if you've already seen the film You understand what I mean There's certain choices that the main character makes that don't really make sense for where their life Situation is what they would really be doing and who they seem to be as a person Early on in the film now Maybe that's kind of a point of they kind of change as a person throughout it But it didn't feel right to me. It felt a little bit off But you know, it's a horror film. You got to get to the horror somehow There's some quite creepy or I already talked about the sound sound design, but I wrote down that it's very creepy and effective I mean sound design Excellent. There's some meta foreshadowing that happens about the film when some characters are kind of talking about it That's one of the things I did kind of like about this is they throw some very meta stuff into this film So it's not a very it's not a straightforward film It's kind of like turns into like a film talking about a film being a film Yeah, it if that sounds kind of confusing it is a little bit But you'll understand if you actually watch the film you'll get what I'm talking about It's like quasi horror inception in a way. That doesn't really Spoil anything. Don't worry There's a moment. I actually did not really see coming in this where things actually really ramp up It's probably about it around the one hour mark of the film So there's like like 20 some minutes left at that point I would like that, you know it to get things moving a lot more a lot earlier But I think a lot of that has to do with being a lower budget film You know these shutter original films don't get a ton of money to do what they're doing So for that reason I am impressed with certain things like the directing and the acting and the cinematography and the sound design so Expectations like you know, you need to understand what type of film you're really watching. This isn't a big budget film It's totally not so when you view it through that lens There are things that really stick out another thing that actually really sticks out too is the The gore and The violence when it actually happens It's more sparse than you would want it to be but you have to understand that that's because it's a lower budget film But when they do it, it's effective and I think a part of the reason for that is the way they choose to shoot it It's not unbelievably explicit or anything But between the actors actually selling it and the way they shoot it. It's effective. It is Nicely done It's definitely j-horror as I suspected but like I said, it's not straight up. It's not straight up So don't I don't want to pigeonhole like that Like I said it drags a little bit That's probably my biggest problem with it. The other thing I need to say is when I rate this you need to understand that I Am not a huge fan of j-horror films in general. I'm also not a huge fan of found footage So when I say there's kind of a Blair Witch Aspect to it. There's a little found footage to it and I'm just not a fan of either of the genres really So for the fact that I actually kind of enjoyed it is a good thing. I mean it speaks more You know, so just just know my biases is what I'm trying to get at The title one of my biggest problems is the title. I hate the title of this film. I think it's awful I understand why It's called warning. I don't understand the do not play portion of it I think that should have been left off a hundred percent. I don't even think it should have been called warning though I just think the title was very poorly chosen for this now After I say that that might not be the fault of the director slash writer of this film because It's a film coming over from South Korea You know, it may have a different name originally in Korean than it does in the United States a lot of the times when films go from one country to another They actually totally change the name of it. They don't just translate the title of it So I don't know what the situation is there. I just know that whoever picked that title It's not good. It's really not good and I understand Why like what it refers to and why it's called that? But it's not good So, you know, they needed a better title. That's a minor thing There's a component of commentary on the pressures of film making and the expectations of Filmmakers, especially if they've done something noteworthy before So I like that kind of subtext commentary Situation going on with it and it's kind of another aspect of what I was talking about being meta about things So it's very meta about filmmaking It's it has filmmaking aspects that they talk about in the film and then the overall You know meta and metaphors in the film are about filmmaking itself so it's kind of cool because it's a scriptwriter director making a film about Frustrations of being a scriptwriter director making a film in a sense. So I like those types of things when they're done There's also an exploration of writer's block and kind of the lengths that some people will go to to kind of solve that Obviously in a horror film, it's going to be taken to the nth degree It's not gonna feel very realistic, but that's because it's a horror film You got to get the horror somehow and that that's at play here Horror movies as a personal release and a sort of therapy is talked about briefly in this And that's when the exorcist is specifically cited. I like that little aspect of it It's just a cool moment to kind of connect with Horror audience and be like, hey, you know me as director writer like I'm like you people like I have these same feelings Well, and let's nerd out about it a little bit in this little scene of the film So I like that little touch. So that's kind of all I have to say about the film I can't say that I would go out of my way to recommend this to people to be honest But part of that could be because of be because of some of my biases as I said But I think there's some really good things like I talked about in this You know, I'm not gonna repeat them again, but yeah, there's some good things So out of five stars with half stars in play I'm gonna give it a two and a half stars because I'm so in the middle on whether I would really recommend it to someone or Not and like I said, there could be some biases I thought about giving it a three, but it feels more like a two and a half to me Honestly, I just say you make up your mind watch it and and figure that out because it's hard to know You know, these are all just my personal opinions Everyone has their their views on film. So it's just you know, figure it out for yourself Every movie is worth watching just one time just to know what it was all about. 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