Review: Another Heaven is a horror thriller masquerading as a police drama, the transition between the two genre is seamless and perfect. What starts off as an ordinary story turns into something more supernatural leaving you wanting to know more. The movie was inspired by a manga and a TV series, you will find the general concept behind to story to be similar to that of other movies such as: The Hidden, The Thing or Fallen. None the less the concept is presented very well in this movie, the story is entertainment and generally easy to follow after you understand what is going on.

Most of the focus was kept on a few characters, you did not have too many people to worry or think about. The main characters in this movie were well developed and given a style of their own. Each of these main characters added a different flavor to the movie in general, such as the two cops, both very well drawn characters and each quite different from each other but complimented each other. We found the older cop to be especially cool, he had the old style, no nonsense, ass kicking cop thing going for him. The killer in the movie was very cool too, colorful but also mysterious enough to keep you wondering. Generally the characters were great in this movie and the acting was very good.

This movie was more action orientated than other Japanese psychological thrillers, what you have is a mixture of thriller, horror, and police action. The movie starts off pretty innocently as the police are investigating murders but slowly the thriller effects start to sink in and build up. The movie also moves at a faster pace than other Japanese horrors and thus probably enjoyable to a wider audience than the slower paced movies. You have a couple of shocking murder scenes but generally there is little gore during the movie. In general the movie is both entertaining for the horror factor and the action factor.