A so so movie

Rating: Null/10 (9 October 2002)

I saw a screening of this last night, and while it wasn't a bad movie, I am not sure if I would spend the $8 to see it at a theater, over waiting for the DVD to come out.
Beware of Spoilers: There were too many loose plot points for me. The most significant was the fact that the son got so upset when his mother (Naomi Watts) released Samara. She apparently didn't need to 'be released' to kill before, and she still killed afterward. What was the point of that, especially since they made such a big deal of that scene? (It occurs at the point of the gotcha ending).
Also, she makes the comment of what she did differently and concludes it must have been making a copy, but she also spent time in the well. it is possible that is what saved her, and the son making copies would not do any good.
Finally, since Samara apparently kills by coming out of the TV, how did she kill the 2 friends who were in the car? I guess it is possible that they had a TV in the car for her to come out of, but that still seems unlikely.