Best horror movie ever?!?

Rating: 5/10 (18 October 2002)

How much did they pay the studio plants to post messages like that? If you read the earlier "reviews" (IE - advertisements) posted for this film, you'll see one person after another saying how "The Ring" is the "scariest movie ever." Now that the REAL audience is seeing the picture, it's being revealed for what it is; a mediocre horror film (wait until video) filled with plot holes, bad directing, poor character development and interaction, and two million loose ends. You feel like you're about to be rewarded for the two hours you spend, and end up with a predictable finale that leaves you with even more questions. The film is lazy. The writer and director had NO IDEA where the wanted to go with this. And all of the "scary" stuff is stuff you've seen a million times before in almost every other ghost movie ever made. Very disappointing. I hope the studios come around and realize that when they hype their movies so heavily through planted reviews, it only leaves the audience that much more disappointed. Don't get me wrong, the film isn't horrible, but it isn't anything deeper than cheap terror flicks like "Jason X" or "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer," and it makes less sense than either of those films. There is no reason to see this film. Why? If you watch a lot of horror movies, you've seen it all before.