It's no thriller...

Rating: Null/10 (25 November 2002)

I was very excited to go see The Ring. I will admit that I went in with great expectations but as far as I'm concerned this film lacked the effort in production to thrill me. I concede that the camera shots were great, the music was intriguing, the main plot however was terrible... The story itself is actually quite good and I believe if told is a different manner the entire movie would be far more effective. I enjoyed the gory feel to the film and the urban legend qualities but otherwise I think it's boring. The characters weren't real enough to identify with and several of the underlying stories never were explained in full. I questioned the presence of several supporting characters. All in all, this film failed to strike any horror in or give me even a hope for nightmares. It seemed designed to scare children rather than adults with tales of the unnatural.