lolo341
15Oct11
I really hated this movie, and if I had realized that Miike was responsible for Sukiyaki Western Django, I would not have bothered.
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Zachary George Najarian-Najafi
28May12
I swear off women. This is one of the most upsetting, uncomfortable, and disgusting films I have seen in a long time. Brilliant, yes! But totally uncomfortable. I think I can only handle a movie on the level of Milo and Otis for a while.
Hugo Resendiz Saldivar
15May12
Es bastante interesante y unas ambientaciones muy fuertes, pero no termino de atraparme, creo que la historia comienza interesante y el personaje que no sabes si esta en la realidad o fuera de ella termina por pensar que el director lo único que busca es dar giros de tuerca indiscriminadamente.
Chris Jones
31Mar12
It falls just short of being a real masterpiece. If anything I thought it was relatively thin on truly psychologically distressing content, with the much-vaunted torture scene alternating between being horrific and silly-but it's hard not to admire what Miike was going for here. Ultimately, for all of its haunting imagery, it doesn't leave the viewer with all that much to chew on. (Kinda negative for a 4 star review)
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willythesalesman
4Jan12
I'd have to say it's some kind of masterpiece but I just can't take the shock in....The movie just turns in the the jaw of hell at the last 10 minutes...
anarxoaplytos
26Nov11
I am keen on good gore films and modern japanese cinema but this was too hideous to enjoy
Aritz Bolivar
9Oct11
The best advice you can find in Miike's filmography: for god's sake, NEVER remarry!
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Shane Buckland
8Sep11
Easily ranks as one of the best and most disturbing horror movies ever made, this slow-burning visceral masterpiece is Miike at the peak of his powers. At once a searing indictment of Japanese gender roles and a disarming expression of male sexual anxiety, Audition is a deeply unsettling psychological thriller that builds towards one of the most unforgettable finales in cinema history.
Threske
6Jul11
Miike is surprisingly subdued here compared with his usual Visitor Q / Full Metal Yakuza standards of silliness. If the many allusions to Asami's past and true character before the two-thirds point were subtler and scarcer, keeping the audience convinced they were watching an innocuous formulaic romance, the big reveal of the climax would be even more crushingly unexpected and intense and a cinematic masterstroke.
gloryofistanbul
24Jun11
What makes this film so good, is the slow build up before absolute horror is released by the fragile female character to devastating effect
AdamantCocoon
26May11
Dissed and overrated all for the wrong reasons. Treat it like a hallucination or a Mobius Strip, which is part and parcel of the experience. I finished it the first time and was grossly unimpressed, and then it just hit me the second time.
ILoveCourtneyHate
13May11
I was wimpering in genuine fear even before the climax, this film has comparitive to the genre and Miike's own output, very few thrills, but they are without question some of the most powerful in horror history - Miike at his best is like a truly great musician, Hendrix, Edith Piaf - hitting every note with more power than could ever be faked. very possibly his masterpiece.
Nicholas R. Lukic
14Feb11
The most disturbing and disgusting film I have ever seen, but it is utterly perfect.
Zachary Curl
6Dec10
i'm not a Miike fan by any stretch, and this, i think, was the movie that did it for me.
Alexander Robino
3Nov10
Was sad to find myself ultimately disappointed by this film. It was really great up until the last 20 minutes. Then it went all campfest and disgusting without justification. It hurt all the substance it had going for it, in my mind.
D M Turner
10Oct10
The Audition was more of character study then thought it would be. There where many times in the film felt sorry for Asami.
The Shadows and Silence
10Jul10
Definitely the strongest of his many masterpieces, this film is nigh on perfect in terms of pacing, plotting, characterization and with one of the greatest climaxes in horror cinema. Of course, this alone does not a masterpiece make, for me it is Miike's utter command of numerous cinematic languages and their fusion into an extremely disturbing but reflective whole that earns it its stripes. Modern Fassbinder indeed.
Diogo Baldaia
5Jul10
o filme não se ajuda, está tudo muito desmedido e miike encara este projecto parcialmente; se não o fosse acabava o filme de outro modo tornando-o histórico; mas resolveu tomar o lado das babes magoadas uhuhuhuh
Vladimir Hernández Balderas
17Jun10
Hi las movies de aqui abajo ya las vi me acuerdo la primera ves que vi Hichi the killer no la soporte la quite pero a la semana regrese a terminar de verla jajajaja
kingofbizzare
16Jun10
I love showing this movie to people and telling them it's a romantic movie, only explaining the plot up through the audition. Watching them find out what it's really about is one of my favorite things ever. For added surprise, I'll show them something like Happiness of the Katakuris or Zebraman first, then remind them at the start that it's the same director.