That story may sound very serious and controversial, as a young man named Josh invades Douglas Ziegler's computer and inadvertently distributes a virus. It seems that this virus opens the gate that connects humans and the dead. Although it seems very secret, the virus may spread and make the infected victims commit suicide. Now, Josh must create an anti-virus program to delete the virus and secure the human species which is a great effort.
It would have been a lot scarier if the film's college kids, haunted by comrades who stare back at them from cyber-hell, looked like they had lives worth saving.
Boring youth movies are the result of boring youth characters.
Chicago Reader
August 17, 2006
The remake begins with the same premise and appropriates the most striking visuals, grafting them onto a more explicable but equally dull George Romero-style doomsday scenario.
The unanswered questions in the original added to the mood, but by trying to answer even just a few of them, this Pulse just gets more confusing and less scary.
Time Out
September 23, 2006
As the ghosts suck the life out of their victims, the audience suffers the same fate.
