You will die of brain rot after you see THE RING!!!

Rating: 3/10 (26 November 2003)

Cheap thrills. That's a summary of the entire film. The Ring (2002) is a dumbed down Hollywood version of the Japanese horror film Ringu (1999). The Ring is actually two movies in one, it combines both elements of Ringu and Ringu 2. Instead of making a straight horror ghost story like the Japanese version, The Ring suffers from the old scheme of trying too hard. Yes, it tries to be scary, hip and an instant classic. The movie fails on all three levels. The subliminal scenes are of old hat nature, adding elements to this film that were not in the original damage the film's chill factor and the liberal amounts of cheap scares land this movie right in the middle of Cheeseville.
Naomi Watts is several years older than the character is suppose to be and by literally transposing scenes from the Japanese version will not make any sense to most of the audience giving Ms. Watts the aura of being a bad parent. The child in the movie is too cold for his own good and the father character is bad. I did not enjoy the film when I first saw it and after viewing it recently I still don't. Why mess with a good thing? Why did they have to add the t&a factor into the picture? Not only is the film bad but cheap as well.
Not recommended.