Pulse 3 Movie
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TAGLINES PLOT SUMMARY
Seven years into the invasion, humankind has fled the cities where billions have died from a plague spread through the internet. JUSTINE (17) dreams of a life beyond her squalid refugee camp where all technology is taboo. She discovers the last working laptop and opens it like Pandora's Box. Someone is waiting for her online. And that someone wants desperately to meet her. The only catch, she must return to the city. With a longing that surpasses fear, Justine embarks on a terrifying journey back to the heart of where it all began. What waits there is something she could not possibly have imagined.
| Noureen DeWulf | Salwa |
| Rider Strong | Adam |
| Lynn Blackburn | Teacher |
| Jackie Arnold | Zach |
| Brittany Renee Finamore | Justine |
| Georgina Rylance | Michelle |
| Robert Gibson | Bluesman |
| William Prael | Cliff |
| Laura Cayouette | Amy |
| Karley Scott Collins | Young Justine |
| Snowy Highfield | Heartthrob |
| Marcus M. Mauldin | Burly Man |
| Thomas Merdis | Caleb Wilkie |
| Diane Goldner | Sarah Wilkie |
| Courtney Shay Young | Captive Phantom |
| Joel Soisson |
3.90 out of 10 (485 votes)
Visitor Reviews
Better than Pulse 2 of course
posted on 24 Jul 2009I liked Pulse 3 better than Pulse 2. But there is no way Pulse 2 and 3 beat Pulse 1. I have mixed feelings about how they shouldve handled the pulse movies. Part of me says they just should have made the 1st Pulse and stopped because that was the best one (had no/less green screen, ghosts looked better, etc.) Yet the other part of me liked this Pulse alot too. Even though they changed some stuff up in it and used some green screen, but the green screen actually fit the mood of the film if you think about it that way. As for the phantoms, I think they did a better job at putting some guy phantoms in the pulse movies for once. Rider strong looked cool as a phantom, but i liked the other dude with the long hair as a phantom better. He was more freaky and the story to this movie was better than Pulse 2. The only thing i didnt really like about the movie was the fact that the climax wasnt as strong and epic as it could have been and that the movie was somewhat calm/slow at times. I think they should've had more of he phantoms sucking out peoples life n all instead of saving all of it towards the end of the movie. But all in all, i did like the movie alot!
There's no "PULSE" running through this film!
posted on 21 Jul 2009Third (& one can only pray that it will be the last) installment to the PULSE series, has the little girl of the previous sequel all grown up leaving her foster family in the camps set up for the remaining survivors of civilization & hitting the deserted ruins of a city to find Andy, a young man whom says he lives in the ruins, after she makes contact with him via an abandon laptop computer. While there, she discovers that he's actually a ghost with a terrifying secret & past. PULSE 3 is as dull as it sounds & barely better than the awful PULSE 2, again CGI is pretty dominate here & sticks out worse than a sore thumb, the deserted city background is CGI, the ghosts & well pretty much everything! except the actors & about three other locations in the film. There's no suspense, I cared nothing for the characters, the direction was dull, no chills, in short what I'm trying to say is the film is no fun! But then what do you expect from DIMENSION FILMS? After all they did give us the cheaply made, unimaginative sequels to once respectable franchises like, HELLRAISER/CROW/MIMIC/HALLOWEEN/ CHILDREN OF THE CORN & made the characters & villains of these films mere jokes to most horror fans. Not that they cared much since they were making money off these sequels regardless of how cheaply made & how bad they were & how most of the series dedicated followers were disappointed with each passing installment. Heck there's barely anything remotely interesting happening that has to do with ghosts until the middle of the movie & even then the ghosts don't do anything, I mean Like the HELLRAISER sequels, you could remove the series villain(s) in this case the ghosts & you would still have a movie! in fact this isn't really a sequel at all but rather the story of one girl's journey of finding a lost & lonely person in deserted city ruins & the ending is flat & unexciting that comes off almost as bad as a boring ten minute monologue we'd be forced to sit & watch in a film where a character spouts off while walking around in circles in his apartment, oh wait a minute....that was in this movie too! Avoid at all costs, see the original PULSE (2006) & pretend the sequels never existed, trust me you'll be doing yourself a great favor!*1/2 stars
Really Bad !
posted on 13 Jun 2009OK to put this in reference i am one of those minorities that actually liked the first Pulse. Further, low and behold i actually didn't mind the squeal and though for a direct DVD it was pretty good. The blue screens never bothered me with the film as i tend to view it as the defining look for the second one and clear indication that the ghosts via electronics have taken over the world. For me it just worked and had a OK storyline. Not saying it is a masterpiece but i enjoyed it.Pulse 3 had the same look as the second and i could have lived with that but man does the story suck. The fact i as a previous Pulse fan hates it tells you something. The story is boring, bad acting, hopeless story that is both predictable and just plain stupid and the film just isn't any fun to watch. There are plot lines that defy any logic and mixed with bad acting it is a chore to watch.Avoid at all costs. It really does suck and i say that as a guy that liked the first two.
Oh My God This Is Like Soooo Funny
posted on 26 May 2009Like I would guess that "Fred" is like, you know, and old guy, like prolly thirty sumthin, and like Diana just didn't' like get it, u know. Like I totally got it, like OMG, when the lights went out...like I was all whoaaa this is freaky. Like I enjoyed reading "Fred's" comment more than the movie...you know. And like I think he summed up the movie like exactly the way I remembered it...like totally.But like the movie is you know, like about a girl, who like leaves the camp she lives in, in search of a new boyfriend she met on like myspace or something. Then like, really really scary stuff happens to her along the way.
Barely better than Pulse 2
posted on 19 Apr 2009Because everyone was just clamoring for another sequel to Pulse, Pulse 3 is here, and suffers from all the problems that made Pulse 2 practically unwatchable. Picking up years after Pulse 2, Pulse 3 finds the grown up Justine (Brittany Finamore) traversing back to the haunted city in search of the mysterious Adam (Rider Strong). In terms of plot, that's about it in a nutshell, as Pulse 3 features more spectacularly awful green-screen effects work, an incoherent and non-sensical story, and one of the most annoying and unlikable "heroines" you'll see today. With an uber-confusing ending, hopefully this is indeed the end of the Pulse series, and perhaps Joel Soisson can move on and craft more films that are pretty well close to being an insult to the horror genre. Avoid.
Not Scary, Not Fun, Not worth seeing... get out of here
posted on 04 Apr 2009well, joel soisson continue to prove that he shouldn't have skipped these directing classes...the movie has no story line, no acting whatsoever, and absolutely no Horror... when i was going through the movie my eyes was focused on the forward button all the time... really the movie can be summarized in (at most) 5 minutes... and i am saying that while being a huge fan of the first part... the second was really not up to the expectation and so is this...90% of the actual events that could entertain a viewer happened in the last 9 minutes, and the rest is just a boring filling, i didn't at all love the star of the movie, but she couldn't help it... the dialogs were poor.and at the end please don't use an Indian girl to play an Egyptian rule... it offends me :)
May cause nausea, bleeding from the eyes, and homicidal hatred of Rider Strong
posted on 02 Feb 2009Pulse 3 closes out the horrific experiment that were sequels to Pulse, a tolerable horror movie about a frequency that the dead can operate on. Justine, a mentally handicapped holdover from Pulse 2, recieves a message from Adam, who claims to be living in Houston, rather than her runt refugee camp. Following her pants and managing to either alienate or kill everyone she encounters, Justine unfortunately does not die the screaming, agonized death you pray she suffers.
This isn't so much a horror as it is a loose compilation of scenes that a kind person may consider horror-based. There aren't even startle scares, and the whole plot, including twists, are so blatant you can't hope to be surprised. The only character that deserves to live, despite being a jerk, dies thanks to Justine's incompetence. I began fast forwarding at regular intervals to pass the long camera-motion scenes that make up the bulk of the film, which consists of Justine gazing off into the distance while the camera rotates around and fades in and out. Homer Simpson could've done better using nothing but star wipes. Only get for MST3K related purposes, for for an excuse to fly into a psychotic rage
do not waste your time
posted on 01 Feb 2009I watched this movie yesterday and I'm still shocked at the quality and performance. The graphics were so shocking I could not believe it. I mean it was the worst photoshop I have ever seen, I could probably do better. The film was so low budget, they didn't even have enough money to hire a room to shoot it in. The whole film you could see the fake background. Even in scenes where the girl is in woods, it was still graphics? Why? Woods are everywhere they could have just find a park or something, but no it's the fake background. The story line was poor, very poor. No proper plot or background to the story and did not really make a logical connection to previous films. Because I thought the the ghosts are bad, but no, half of the film they are good and half of the film they are bad again. Overall, my advice, do not waste your time and watch something (anything) else instead.
The Love Child of James Wan and the Wachowski brothers
posted on 26 Jan 2009Have you ever watched a teen-girl drama TV show where the cute blonde stuck-up preppy princess-turned-anti-conformist gets rejected by her family because of her choice of boyfriend and then rebels against society and everything else? Oh, they don't make shows like that? Thank God. Too bad it slipped through in the theatres.Pulse 3 is like watching Gossip Girl put in a blender with The Matrix and Saw, except it's infinitely more painful. I went between the emotions of: boredom, disgust, hatred and checking to make sure I hadn't nodded off. Yes I know that's not an emotion, but it happened to me repeatedly during this tragedy so I thought it was worth a mention. What kind of movie provides you with a number of camera angles of a woman blowing her head off with a shotgun in grisly detail? THIS ONE!!! I'd like to think that scene served some kind of purpose, but I'll leave it at that. I'd also like to think that one's imagination serves some sort of purpose, but this film won't let me have it. The film seemed to be going somewhere, until the girl runs away, then it's just a scantily-clad drama queen screaming at the top of her lungs because her internet boyfriend won't txt her back. After about the half-hour mark you may as well shut it off. That's where the philosophy turns into fluff. A huge build-up to nothing. Don't waste your time.
Not great but better than one and two,
posted on 25 Jan 2009I'm one of those types who enjoys a good post-apocalyptic flick every now and then so this movie appealed t me on that level at least. It's far superior than the second, by leaps and bounds really and I enjoyed the plot more than the previous two. The movie had many flaws and it won't appeal to everyone but it does make up a bit for how bad the second one is. It's your typical B Horror movie with a touch of sci-fi for added effect. If you're bored and want to watch something mindless and somewhat entertaining then you could do worse. While the second installment of the Pulse trilogy earned a solid one star or perhaps no stars if that was an option this one at least qualified for two or three.
Did a 4 year old write the script?
posted on 16 Jan 2009Pulse 2 was no feat in cinematic history.This achieves even less.Yes, watching the 2 Pulse movies back to back was a struggle, but I managed to garner up the energy and ambition to do so.Desire was lacking after 15 minutes into this movie due to horrible dialog, plot less story, lousy effects, crappy performances and just basically it being even worse then the previous.How can that be? How can an already boring story get worse? I don't know...there are some things I can't explain - just like the writer of this movie...there's so much left unexplained because there simply is no plot or point to the movie.It's bad and there are not too many movies that fall into the area of just downright lousy, but this one succeeds to do so well at it.The entire series actually...and to think there was actually paper wasted on the printing of the script...trees devoid of their life on earth to be cruelly cut down, shredded up into pulp to form a thin film which would be bonded to form a substance called "paper" and that paper would be used for printing this script on.Yes, just as this comment is really lousy and pretty much boring and pointless, it is just a reminder of the total direction of the movie.If you want a scary movie script - avoid the ones written by preschoolers. Tey have yet to learn to spell.Another waste of time, talent and money...well OK...not talent.
Please, no more of these!
posted on 25 Jul 2009For those of you who hated the remake of Pulse, I can understand why. I, however, was one of the people who enjoyed it. Sure, it had its' flaws and it could have been better, but I liked it. There have been so many worse remakes, and bad movies in general. I'd rate Pulse at a 6 rating.Pulse 2: Afterlife, however, truly defined the word terrible and actually the worst sequel I have ever seen. It was completely lifeless, had boring performances from the actors and the whole movie (apart from one or two scenes) were in front of a terribly fake green screen. How did this sequel turn into a movie that involved little girls being slapped by their fathers, men in their underwear jumping off of bridges, obese men having sex with ghosts and so on? Terrible.I watched Pulse 3 because I am a person who watches all the sequels in a franchise. Despite hating the living crap out of Pulse 2, the opening scene with Rider Strong and his girlfriend in this movie, showed promise. No sign of a green screen, decent acting and I was entertained. The rest of the movie is complete garbage with marginally better acting than the second (but still bad), that goddamn green screen, some more laughs (sadly, most likely unintentional) and a horribly "storyline". Pulse 3 is better than Pulse 2, but that's not saying much (ha ha!).The main problem with Pulse 3, despite the awful green screen, horrid CGI for the ghosts, awful writing and bad acting, is the fact that it is completely pointless. Joel Soisson, the "mastermind" behind Pulse 2 and 3, created a beginning and an end for Pulse 3, but no middle! Most of the scenes in this movie are completely pointless and lead nowhere. About an hour of this movie are just pointless, terribly written scenes and it makes you wonder how the hell this crap got made.Oh, that's right, Joel Soisson produced the first movie and decided he thought he had what it takes to write two cheap, horrible sequels. Please Joel, for the love of god, do not make any more of these crappy sequels!2/10 (it would be a 1, but the opening was good)