Furthermore, the appropriated elements of "Giselle, " as rendered by a trio of women who appear as a cross between the weirdsisters of "Macbeth" and schoolgirls in tailored uniforms, might have been more caringly and scrupulously recycled.
The same might go for director Kim Jee-woon, a talented Korean known for macabre ghost stories like "A Tale of Two Sisters, " whacky adventures ("The Good, the Bad, the Weird"), and grisly cop thrillers ("I Saw the Devil").