If only it meant something

Rating: Null/10 (10 May 2003)

The Ring is interesting to watch and a visual work of art -- yes -- but it's also a terrible film and not scary or moving at all (for those of us, at least, that require more content the Blair Witch level of juvenile scares).

Usually when a film is loaded with plot holes it isn't because the filmmakers are smarter than us and we're somehow missing something, it's because the filmmakers are missing something themselves -- such as any real concept of what the hell they are trying to say or communicate to the audience. Lots of scary-looking images not a scary movie makes. Definitely a let down for pretentious film poseurs everywhere.