10A-The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, October 18, 2006 "Mmmmm Altoids." A touch of 'Grace' at the Michigan By Michelle Zellers their bodies. Daily Arts Writer The story of the three yout women completing their missic The pregnant Colombian 17 becomes a sort of narrative expo year old in 2004's "Maria Full of of heroin trafficking, tracking tI Grace," which - challenges and dangers a typic will screen Maria Full mule might face, which would I tomorrow at the of Grace fascinating enough to anyone unf Michigan The- miliar with the human carriers wI atre is nothing Tomorrow routinely cross the U.S. border. TI if not bold. Her at 7 p.m. thread of Maria's personal sto route to a bet- At the Michigant also thickens when she reaches ter life is paved world of choice and ambiguityi with the gravest Fine Line New York City. No longer propelle possible health toward anything, she alone mu and political dangers - the route of determine a direction for her ow Colombian heroin trafficking into immediate future as well as h the United States. unborn child's. Maria (newcomer Catalina San- Besides its sincere and lucid st dino Moreno) grudgingly helps to rytelling, "Maria Full of Grace support her sister's baby and other warrants attention for Moreno family members with a mind- striking debut performanc less job, dethorning roses in rural Though no one really expecte Colombia, until her employer's her to win the Academy Awa: debasing treatment finally propels - the nomination itself was her to seek work in Bogota. The surprise - it was telling that h most lucrative prospect is an offer name made the list of 2004 be of about $5,000 - to swallow more actress nods alongside names li than 60 grape-sized heroin pellets Kate Winslet and Hilary Swan and transport them to New York She easily breaks the languag City in her stomach. After speak- barrier, coming across emotior ing to another drug mule (a veteran, ally on screen even to those wh having survived just two previous don't understand Spanish. It's h trips), Maria and a tagalong friend visual expressiveness that guide from home accept the offer, risking us with Maria along the momer both imprisonment and the heroin tous passage of frustration, appr packets lethally breaking inside hension, terror and finally courag You don't want to hold this 'Grudge' By Hyatt Michaels ine Daily Arts Writer Wes Craven's "Scream 2" is far from a masterpiece, but if more horror sequels followed its template, movies like "The * A A Grudge 2" would be a lot less irritating. The Hate it or love it, Grudge 2 "Scream 2" was the At the Showcase rare sequel to capture and Quality 16 the zing of the original, Columbia churning out scares even while casually poking fun at its own ng silly conventions. "The Grudge 2" takes on its silly conventions seriously, making the s6 shortcomings of the original's ridiculous he story all the more obvious. al The new film begins where the first left be off: failing to build suspense. a- We find injured heroine Sarah Michelle ho Gellar ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer") he strapped to a hospital bed in Japan and ry accused of killing her boyfriend from the a first film. We all know the creepy curse in (re: the grudge) is responsible, but we're ed forced to watch crazy a Gellar emote igno- st rance anyway. When Buffy mysteriously vn bites the dust, it's up to her estranged er sister, Joan of Arcadia - sorry, Amber Tamblyn ("The Sisterhood of Traveling o- Pants") - to pick up the pieces and save e" the day. 's From there, "The Grudge 2" simply e. replicates the structure of its predecessor, ad which didn't give its sequel much to live to rd up to in the first place. a Rather than learn from the original's er flaws, "The Grudge 2" delves deep into st the plot holes that sunk it, running three ke parallel stories that combine for a rather k. anticlimactic ending. Two of these sto- ge ries take place in Japan and the other in n- Chicago, where a cloaked victim spreads so the curse to an unsuspecting family a few er doors down. es The curse supposedly causes uncontrol- n- lable rage in each victim it touches. But e- if this is the case, why the hell does the e. Chicago family go around stalking and 4 4 4 I wonder if Pantene Pro V would work on this. killing everybody else? If these victims victims actually stand still and watch as are cursed with uncontrollable rage, why their so-called tormentors crawl slowly aren't they all killing each other? "The through photographs, air vents and beds Grudge 2" only briefly attempts to answer to attack them. this, opting for bald scares over any real As the helmer of "The Grudge" series plot development or, you and its Japanese know, logic - not that A fai ch forerunner "Ju-on," the film provokes an ite of you'd think direc- ounce of thrills either. to or Takashi Shimizu What's most trou- horror, uoomeu to would have enough bling is that everything know-how to direct from its hokey family of repeat the trespasses an effective horror ghosts to its lame edit- film. Before mak- ing tricks incites more of its predecessor. ing the inevitable laughter than goose- "Grudge 3" train bumps. 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