One gigantic bubble that got bursted in the end for good

Rating: 4/10 (7 March 2003)

The Ring had a interesting plot concept, a video tape that gets its viewers killed. Believable? No. Scary? Yes.
The film is very thrilling from the beginning to the end. It starts as a young girl realizes that she had seen it exactly a week ago. After some really scary scenes she is dead and her aunt, a reporter starts to investigate this mystery and ends up seeing the tape herself. And her ex-boyfriend and son too. So the clock is ticking for them to solve what is behind it or they'll end up dead too. The suspense keeps the viewer in its grasp all the way trough the film, but...
It seems that the writer ran out of ideas how to end this and how to give a reasonable explanation for the tape's magic powers. The ending simply sucked. The suspense that the film built bursted like a bubble and makes you laugh. Might have passed as an episode of X-Files but a feature film, no. 4/10 for a good attempt and the scary parts.