Torpid
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The sound rosethrough the empty staircase, penetrating through walls and doors, anddying away in the rooms where it fell on the
torpid
ears of the sleepinghousehold.
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The dialog was dull, the plot was torpid, the soundtrack was overbearingly unnecessary, and the acting was awful.
Acclaimed Japanese director Takashi Miike can't seem to get the wheels moving with this
torpid
thriller, an adaptation of Yasushi Akimoto's book concerning an evil old woman (and child abuser!) who is part of a new urban legend: if your cell-phone rings with a strange tone--and you see the message 'One Missed Call'--you will replay the message only to hear your own final words before your death.
The acting is
torpid
at best; Kiefer Sutherland phones in his worst impersonation of Jack Bauer, and Michael Douglas looks like he realizes he made a bad choice leaving Catherine Zeta-Jones for the duration it took to shoot this turkey.
Perhaps I was not on the same wavelength as the director, but I thought it was painfully
torpid
with little substance.
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