Pulse is no surprise as a horror movie, but as a movement against the internet, digital piracy, cell phones and anything that counts, it's definitely a riot. The film is based on a less coherent but more gruesome 2001 film by Kurosawa, but instead of creating a terrifyingly seductive image like Kurosawa's film, it extends the film That quivering, stuttering visual sensation, and sprouting a truly dark and lovely chapter
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Pulse faithfully exploits the existential horror and distrust of technology of its original. Director Jim Sanzero's version finally goes back to trying to shed light on the reasons behind its story's invasion of the undead, with a closing narrative to underscore the points that were implied from the start. As a director, Jim Sanzero has neither Kurosawa's mastery of the widescreen nor the talent for maintaining a disturbingly unreal mood, and at some points the film seems to lack basic visual continuity. Still, the film's chaotic looped visuals occasionally evoke an eerie atmosphere of silence, and the blue-gray palette effectively conveys a sense that the world is slowly draining its vitality from the primal forces of evil
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