The Ring! It's my preciousssss! Not.

Rating: Null/10 (30 June 2003)

Spoilers contained within.
OK, this was mildly entertaining. Not at all scary, but entertaining. But either I'm vastly more intelligent than 90% of the population of the world, or Hollywood just portrays people as plain stupid. From the first time we see the video play through, I guessed quite correctly, that the "Ring" was someone looking up from inside the well as the lid is put on. It was just so obvious. Yet the characters take an age to figure it out and never seem to look for a well wherever they go. They never think to rewatch the video for clues, either. After all, if they're gonna die, why not watch it repeatedly? They might have made the connection with the well and the ring then.
Anyway, they watch the video (once each), get a phone call, then begin to die off. The characters investigate with Scooby-Doo efficiency and finally get to the bottom of things (sorry, couldn't resist that pun).
It's not bad, much better than I expected, but you'll probably grit your teeth at the characters' slowness of thought. I haven't seen the original, so I can't compare the two. But this played out like an episode of the X-Files really, but without the imaginative Mulder to come up with wild theories as to what was going on.
It's worth a watch, though.