Imagine "Silence of the Lambs" remade with Inspector Clouseau as the lead detective -- except the film is supposed to be serious. Because that's what this is -- Japan's dumbest detective on the trail of a gruesome serial killer. You could make a drinking game out this film by taking a drink every time the protagonist lets the killer get away. Wait, that might result in acute alcohol poisoning, so you'd better limit the game to every time the detective falls down in the street.I understand why lazy filmmakers use contrivances to advance the plot, but this is taking it to the extreme.

The movie was an adaptation from manga, so stop compare it to the other older movies. I've been watching a lot of murder serial killer and detective, but this one is good.

Museum directed by Keishi Ohtomo which is most famous for his Rurouni Kenshin live action trilogy successful continue the manga adaptation to live action movie trend in Japan.For a guy who already read the manga this movie is a very faithful adaptation to the source material.The movie is beautiful shot with many recreate scene from the original while adding new scene to make the movie more easy to understand for non manga reader.Shun Oguri as the main character is fantastic and Satoshi Tsumabuki as the frog mask killer is menacing although i still prefer the mask in manga cause is way more creepy.My problem is they tone down the violence a little bit when only show the gory aftermath and a new important twist not ruin the movie but still not necessarily

Detective Sawamura (an efficient, I-need-a-shower, Shun Oguri) is going through a bad patch: his wife has left him with his son, he more obsessed with his job than his family. And then a serial killer appears: a mysterious person that is offing all the people related with a case where Sawamura's wife was part of. Sawamura will try to catch the killer before he gets to his wife and son."Museum" has an interesting enough idea that could have made for a great mystery, but the director and the plot go for the shock and gore, becoming a poor "Seven" in the process. The plot is simple as they come, with little originality or rhythm and the 'bad guy' is simpler still, with no deep or interest. It is your average 'I-have-decided- to-kill-people-just-because' character. The movie does a poor job in making the proceedings or the characters very interesting and the actors struggle with the material.If "Museum" had gone for mood and atmosphere, with mysteries around every corner, it could have been a great movie. It ends being a cheap action movie, with little to offer to the viewer apart from a dark and gritty world.