8 Remains

I don't get how this film gained the high rating reviews here.

It is difficult to specify any particular thing. I think it is the way the story is told and the fairly uninteresting way events unfold.

There is no atmosphere. It is as though the shots were just shot without any thought to the content of the scene or how to invoke any kind of visual reinforcement of the action taking place or the emotions of the character.

Perhaps under different artistic control the film would have been something else, something worth watching. But as it is it just doesn't cut it.