- Critical Dissonance: Reception was very hateful towards the movie while viewers felt it was So Okay, It's Average, just noting that it's nothing new.
- Harsher in Hindsight: While the film was already controversial for its arguably exploitative use of Japan's suicide rates, things didn't exactly help when Logan Paul posted his infamous video in Aokigahara nearly two years to the day after this film came out. Worse, both The Forest and Paul's Aokigahara video were connected to the New Year's holiday; The Forest was released right afterwards on January 8, and Paul's video was filmed on New Year's Eve.
- Just Here for Godzilla: For fans of Natalie Dormer, you got two Natalie Dormers just for one movie.
- Nightmare Retardant:
- The forest's illusions are so heavy-handed its almost always easy to tell what's real and what isn't.
- Michi's actor in the final shot out-acts everyone else and can easily leave the audience feeling like everyone else involved was fairly poor.
- Overshadowed by Controversy: While the movie is simply bland and rather forgettable, it will always live with the stigma of having tried to capitalize on Aokigahara around a time where that had become an incredibly sore topic due to Logan Paul's infamous video filmed in the forest. The fact that the main cast is primarily Caucasian despite the Asian subject matter and the fact that the movie was based on the filmmakers having read the Wikipedia article on Aokigahara doesn't help this movie at all.
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