A waste of time and money

Rating: Null/10 (27 May 2006)

Please take your time to read this review, as it could save you from throwing your money away! As a fan of horror movies, I think I can safely say that The Ring was, frankly, one of the worst horror movies (or any movie really!) that I've seen in many years. Just when you think the horror movie cinema can't get any worse, it just did! This movie might have been all right if it turned out that the truth behind the killer videotape was a murderer of some sort (who is still alive, and not a ghost like Samara!) trying to get some kind of revenge on someone. But an evil little girl that died a few decades ago, was, frankly a stupid idea.
This was not a horror movie, or even a scary movie, there are only loud noises and supernatural goings-on, which are cheap scares that are predictable. The scenes that were intended to be scary were too exaggerated right to the point where they stop being scary and caused people to laugh. It's amazing, what kind of things people will do to try and make a movie scary, only resulting in making it look stupid. People with the slightest common sense should not get scared by trash like this.
Naomi Watts is a good actress and quite pretty too, so she shouldn't waste her time making movies like this. See her in King Kong instead. If you have nothing to do on a lazy Saturday afternoon and would like to waste your time and money, then The Ring may be for you.
The movie also leaves hundreds of unanswered questions. Who exactly is this little girl? How did she come to exist? And why did she make a killer videotape in the first place? The ending that it ended up with did not even exist! Gore Verbinski has taken an, I admit it, rather interesting twist ending from the original Japanese film Ringu, and turned it into something empty and incomplete, that will never ever be complete again, not if they make a thousand ring movies. They should have just made them solve the mystery, and just leave it at that. There is no need to carry on. You will wait and wait to see what will happen next, and in the end, nothing will, and you will realise that you have been wasting two hours of something that does not have a point to it. Luckily David Zucker, who I personally think is a great director, was there with 2000's Scary Movie 3, to give it a somewhat satisfactory enough ending, even if it was mixed in with other similar horror movie genres. The Ring is basically insulting horror movies of the past, for example Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, that are worth seeing.
A stupid plot like this can not possibly make a good movie, not even if they had made an interesting ending, (although that might have made it better), and I think that the directors should just give up trying to make a good movie because it just seems to be getting worse with each sequel.
I understand that some of you might want to ignore this review and judge this movie for yourselves, but just take this advice from me: don't bother! Watch a decent horror film that is actually worth watching like Gothika instead, that has a satisfactory plot and ending.
The only thing to praise about this film is that it has a promising beginning that might make you eager to continue watching (that actually results in nothing, of course!), and some interesting special effects, but it's all a rather pointless exercise.
I hope I have saved some people their time and money! My rating: minus 500 out of 10, and that's still not low enough!