Not bad for a horror movie

Rating: 7/10 (23 October 2002)

Compared to all movies, it was better than average. But for a horror movie, it was MUCH better than average. It all depends what you like.
If you are a fan of the horror genre, I would go see it...if not, wait until video. The theme was the standard "evil never dies," but it was done in a different way. There are some things that go unexplained (like how Samara's thought's got on video in the first place)...I would have liked them explained, but, I am not sure it was crucial to the movie.
I won't spoil the ending but I thought it would have been better if it has ended about 2 minutes earlier than it really did; I do have to say that the ending was much better than where I thought it was going to end while I was watching it. I suppose that the ending made things all nice and neat and reinforced the theme of the movie (see above).
Overall, the suspense level was very high and it was well directed and visually appealing.