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Lack of good storyline.

It is not only a funny movie, but it allows a great amount of joy for anyone who watches it.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

This seems to be a sci-fi/ghost story mix-up. At the start of the film the plot seems very confused and it is a bit hard to actually understand what is going on and why.However, things improve once the main crew has been set-up properly in the film, and the action can start to take more of a single main track. The main characters are working on a new energy source that will revolutionize the world. This is somehow linked to the existence of a ghost boy in a locked room. Why and the exact role of the ghost is unclear and the main plot is to figure this out.The acting is generally pretty good, while this is plot slowly flows on - you definitely notice this is not an US film from the pace as it all has a kind of philosophical touch to it, contemplating the relation between a mother and her son as the story unfolds.All in all this is well worth watching, even if it isn't the paradigm changing film of the decade.

Wow..., what a beautiful and sophisticated supernatural movie about life and death. Acting is superb, plot very interesting, music amazing. Very atmospheric, scary but also touching story about the ghost of a little boy who has a special bond with his mother, where love and hatred are synonyms of life and death. The direction is a real ART - innovative and unpredictable. Only one silly car crash scene (unnecessary and fake) but who cares! Definitely one of the best supernatural movies in a long long time. Can't wait to watch it again! Highly recommended. Enjoy!

I have conflicted feelings about Silk. One the one hand, the first hour of the film is easily one of the best, and most original Horror premises to come out of Asia in a while. The only problem with the film is the second half, which degenerates into a Ju-on rip-off with one of the worst death scenes and car crashes in cinema history.Silk tells the story of paranormal investigation team headed by a crippled man named Hasimoto (Yosuke Eguchi). One day, Hasimoto is able to trap a young ghost boy in a apartment room using a new scientific invention called the Manger Sponge; A material that is able to trap the energy of entities. Hasimoto only has one problem, he needs a man with sharp eyes, who can read the lips of the ghost boy he has trapped. Thus enters, Tung (Chen Cheng) a police sharpshooter, who reluctantly takes the job with Hasimoto. Together the two seek to uncover the secrets of the supernatural.I don't know what Director Chao-Bin Su was thinking when he made Silk. As mentioned above, the first hour of Silk is a tight and concise supernatural/detective thriller. One of the things that made the film work (in the first hour) was how all the characters could actively see the ghost, forcing the Director to come up with different ways of scaring the audience, without the usual clichés of the randomly appearing ghost. And in the first half of the film, Chao is very successful with his scares. In the last 30 minutes, the film introduces a long-haired woman ghost (think Ju-On) and then the film catapults off the rails.I really wish the Director would have stuck to the original premise, which was deliciously frightening and creepy, instead of taking the film in the direction he did, which was formulaic and predictable. It's frustrating because Silk should have been another masterpiece of Asian Horror. As it stands now, it's just another copycat with great, but wasted potential. The acting was good, the plot interesting, cinematography and score was nice... it's just the ending that needs a major fix.In particular, two scenes helped ruin this film for me; The ghost coming from the soup bowl, and the ridiculously bad cg of a car crash depicted towards the end of the film. I actually had to back it up because I couldn't believe what I was seeing.Bottom Line- Director Chao-Bin Su could have had a masterpiece. The first hour is a great Supernatural/Detective story, the last 30 minutes is a clichéd, and ridiculous.My Score: 6/10 (The beginning elevates this film to a slightly better than average ghost story)

Very original storyline. It's quite nicely written and imagined with sad moments and can scare you quite amazingly.The movie is about a child's ghost and as we go along, we discover this little boy's story.The acting is great and you can see good character development. The story also shows you how the main characters view death I really appreciated Yosuke Eguchi's part The special effect is quite nice actually and good make up...I think it's a great Asian movie with the cooperation of Chinese, Taiwanese and Japanese actors