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Pulse
2001
· Movie
· 119 min
C
MEANRANK
68/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2707
- IMDb #3277
- Rotten Tomatoes #2604
- Metacritic #1807
- Letterboxd #1487
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2349
+6 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3386
- Metacritic Critics #1672
- Metacritic Audience #2202
- Kinopoisk #4813
- AlloCiné #2750
- Trakt #3854
Every rating
60–76
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 60, highest is Criticker on 76.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A terrifying ghostly presence begins to invade the world through wireless technology and the internet. People across the city become isolated and withdrawn, eventually dying of despair. A group of young friends must find a way to survive and understand the nature of the invasion as the world slowly empties and the spirits claim more victims.
Details
- Director
- Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- Writer
- Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- Released
- 3 February 2001
- Country
- Japan
- Language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 119 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $25.0M
- Box office
- $318.5K
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