Normally when I write a review for a movie, I tend to try to start off with a description of something exciting or at least a “hook,” hopefully to keep people reading the rest of the bungled mash of sentences I’ve written. But I’ve decided to do something different this time because I’ve had the fortune of reading other reviews by critics and it appears that most of them missed the point of this movie.

The movie in question is Shutter the newest Hollywood Asian horror remake. It's obvious from their reviews that many critics forgot the first rule of Asian horror movies. Unlike American cinema, Asian horror movies almost always take the perspective that these ghosts are haunting whomever they’re haunting for a reason. Meaning that these ghosts got so screwed over in life they just can't let the asshole get away.

Unfortunately, the movie stars Joshua Jackson (Dawson’s Creek) as a cold, fairly annoying, macho jerk of a photographer who gets haunted and tortured by a ghost (yay!). He’s also the most clueless professional photographer in the world if he can’t figure out how to touch up photos when they’re ruined by an intrusive ghost (played by Megumi Okina). He’s so clueless in fact that he cannot understand why his lovely new wife, who he brought to Tokyo with him, is also being haunted by the ghost.

Now, even though I’ve hated Jackson since his days as a Mighty Duck, I won’t let this distract from my objectivity. Shutter is definitely bad, but as a cheap thrill, it’s tasty goodness. I say that because Shutter is about a stupid arrogant yank who has his head so far up his ass that we‘re all rooting for her to get him good by the end of the film.