The Ring

October. 18,2002      PG-13
Rating:
7.1
Trailer Synopsis Cast

Rachel Keller is a journalist investigating a videotape that may have killed four teenagers. There is an urban legend about this tape: the viewer will die seven days after watching it. Rachel tracks down the video... and watches it. Now she has just seven days to unravel the mystery of the Ring so she can save herself and her son.

Naomi Watts as  Rachel Keller
Martin Henderson as  Noah Clay
David Dorfman as  Aidan Keller
Brian Cox as  Richard Morgan
Jane Alexander as  Dr. Grasnik
Lindsay Frost as  Ruth Embry
Amber Tamblyn as  Katie Embry
Rachael Bella as  Rebecca Kotler
Daveigh Chase as  Samara Morgan
Shannon Cochran as  Anna Morgan

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Reviews

Micitype
2002/10/18

Pretty Good

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LouHomey
2002/10/19

From my favorite movies..

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Verity Robins
2002/10/20

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

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Fatma Suarez
2002/10/21

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

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strike-1995
2002/10/22

Nothing like a good high concept to drive a horror film.

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GL84
2002/10/23

Several days after their cousin's death, a reporter and her young son find that a cursed videotape watched by individuals leads to their death in seven days and forces them to uncover the meaning of the tape and how to stop its terrible curse before it continues to be passed on.This does have a few pretty nice points about it. Among the better areas here is the fact that this manages to really do some stylized individual scenes to give this some exceptionally enjoyable and chilling moments. From seeing themselves in a live surveillance monitor where they notice their face is all distorted while everything else around them is fine, another starts pulling something out of their mouth that just keeps coming and looks like a long string with something on the end of it and another featuring a bunch of marbles coming together on the floor to make the image of a pointing arrow. It's also got the ability to build up some great scare scenes with a really weird dream where they see an image of a young girl who grabs her on the arm yet when they wake a hand-shaped burn mark across her arm where they were grabbed is noticeable, the incidental videotape itself is incredibly tense and chilling and makes for quite an effective central piece to the puzzle and the revelation at the cabin with the discovery of the well and the big highlight where a partially decomposed girl crawls out of a well on- screen and then crawls out through the TV, onto the floor and then starts walking toward him chasing him around the apartment which is just all sorts of chilling. The only other thing that really works for the film is its final resolution which is a rather chilling outcome. These are all great in making the film quite watchable even though it does have some pretty sizable flaws. One of the biggest issues is that the film didn't need to be as abstract and ambiguous since it's a mystery, and as such should provide us with a clearly defined solution. It's apparent the girl was quite twisted, yet we have no idea why she was mental even before being confined as there's absolutely no explanation what made her that way. What's even stranger is her sense of priority as nothing is given as to what she is trying to get out of all of this. It's obvious we're supposed to feel bad for her, but if they're completely crazy, then there's little chance of it happening. It's also not given how she got inside the videotape anyway, or why a videotape which too obsolete a technology to make much impact. This dates the material greatly and really makes the fear seem less important. Along with a plot that tends to go back on itself by never completely solving one mystery before starting to investigate another, these lower it substantially.Rated PG-13: Language, Violence, children in danger and animal violence.

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eliza_gaskell
2002/10/24

Gonna keep this short. What the Japanese version Ringu (1998), the meaning of water for Japanese people, the way it was shot, symbolism and the over all plot development is, to this day, is phenomenal. Dated yes, but can stand up on its'own.Sadoko in the Japanes version is just freaking scary. Those who have seen it, know the well scene can scare the living daylights out of viewers. Nevertheless credit is due to the American version where the lead female character Rachel, played out by Naomi Watts is more fleshed out and modernized. This may be a cultural thing, but the Japanese Reiko Asakawa comes across as submissive to her male counterpart.The ring a a great movie and the pacing is well constructed, but if you have seen the Japanese film first, than you may end up not liking this film.

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q-49153
2002/10/25

It's not the movie's fault for me not being scared, it's that I'm just not scarable anymore. THe coreogrophy is good, the build up is great and you would be scared. BUT. THe script is bad and corny and generic, not all the acting is bad but some is and whenever the movie tries to scare me I just end up laughing.4/10 great comedy

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