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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Brilliant and touching

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

Blistering performances.

While watching this your eye will wander and you will notice a repeating pattern of shades. Black. White. Brown. Red. Over and over you will see these colours painted over the screen, bringing this movie to life. Frankly thats the most I recall of this film. A fun movie to watch with friends on a rainy night, but we ended up spending half the movie going "Huh?". Trust me when I say I'm an Asian horror pro and this wasn't scary. There was, maybe, one scene where you would jolt but this movie wasn't to frighten you but make you think. A talk about a strange adopted boy being cast out by his ever-growing-apart parents. And he really takes the term Tree Hugger to the max. This boy loves his tree. It's sick...Dying...and the boy is desperate to make it healthy again. It's it best friend. Lots of turns in later half, and finally when it's over it takes a few minutes of discussion to fully understand everything. Overall, its enjoyable, but not scary. Good for people who love Asian flicks and no gore.

I'm a fan of the horror movie, regardless of which hemisphere it comes from. I know what to expect from the West, the East and most horrors in the middle. So I received the DVD of 'Acacia' in the post and looked forward to a slow build of ever increasing tension and scary children with odd, disjointed movements hiding under duvets.The major selling point for this film was that it has a far more linear story line than many of this ilk - you get who the characters are, where they are from and what they do. You get the baseline information (nice couple, can't have children) and realise that the premise is just too normal for something freaky NOT to happen.And then comes the bad. The number one complaint is that the story is OBVIOUS. I got it pretty much the moment the kid hugged the tree. I knew where the film was going and was even able to predict the order of death and for what reason.The editing is shocking and unfortunately, not to the benefit of the film. Even were I still pondering the events, tension isn't allowed to build because the director seems to have gotten a new editing suite for his birthday and wanted to use it as much as possible.And my final gripe is this....the tree was unnecessary. This would have been a perfectly good tale of subtle horror with just the couple breaking down over the death of the child - the titular tree bought nothing new or exciting to the film. So I'll finish where I started - my overall impression was 'Oh.'

this movie was terrible!!! what a complete waste of time and money, not only for me but for the people involved in shooting this film. The movie is like watching a preview for an hour and a half. Absolutley disgusted with the attempt at film making. Editing is at its worst ever and the main focus of the movie is the wife thinking. Just showing 100 different angles of a person thinking does not make it very interesting! I am speechless...quite possibly this production will be the laughing stock of all intl. films, if any one even notices it. This review is purely fair and reasonable, not being harsh in anyway. The movie was the absolute rock bottom of the movie world. I enjoyed the previews 100x more.

This movie has an original premise, but ultimately winds up a little too confused about where it wanted to go. The storytelling, which starts off with fine, mood-filled, dwelling shots, veers off into a style more reminiscent of standard psycho-thrillers as the conclusion draws near. One scene in particular (*SPOILER*: the death of the father-in-law) jars with the visual style right up to this point and seems to mark a clear break in the narrative. The first hour is absolutely riveting, though, and I'll certainly want to see other films by Ki-Hyung Park.