Poor remake of the Japanese original

Rating: 3/10 (26 April 2007)

I watched the original Ring long before Hollywood had decided to 'have a go' at it. I found this remake to be entirely predictable.
The original is a very chilling film  even when watched with subtitles. In this version we have the usual 'love angle' with the estranged child's father (yawn,) performed with textbook wooden acting. Then we have the irrelevant random shock images etc.
The scene in the original Ring where she crawls out of the TV scene is one of the most chilling things I have seen, you know that this is evil in its pure form. On this weak remake it is nothing more than a girl with blood streaked horror make up on her face.
The other really annoying thing about this film is how you keep recognising scene types that have been borrowed from other films. The dialogue between Rachel and Noah could have been lifted from any one of a dozen cheap family soap dramas.
Weak predictable and unnecessary remake.