Don't waste your money, see the original instead!

Rating: 3/10 (4 November 2002)

Once again Hollywood takes an excellent foreign film and produces a bland, uninteresting copy with no merit of its own. Gone is the creepy atmosphere of Ringu, the urban legend theme that gave the original its believability is barely touched on and cheap shocks (which don't generally work) replace the genuine horror of the Japanese version. This is basically a cynical exercise in film making by numbers, cashing in on the original's notoriety. I challenge anyone to come up with a Hollywood remake that even comes close to a foreign original. Do yourself a favour and see Ringu instead.