quite a flick but not quite....

Rating: 7/10 (22 March 2011)

(ok...please don't read the review before seeing the film because it will ruin the surprises you are going to get...)the ring is a good film compared to those awful horror movies which only have one goal...scare people...while the concept and direction are innovative and scenic, there are quite a lot of similarities to normal horror movies. sure we have seen most of the story in one film or the other. but considering the thrilling experience which is accompanied by annoyance due to the lose ends and unexplained things can hook you into your seat for two hours. they should have really worked on the story in a better way which would have made the film much more successful. first of all...how would samara make a tape...let us say she made it...she decides that if the person who watched this tape doesn't make a copy of it in seen days, he will be dead...and she makes a phone call for fun...makes the person's image blurred in photographs...weak...too weak....and to add to this we see all kinds of weird things on the tape like the well in which she was drowned(the tape was made well before her drowning)...i guess this is the problem with almost every horror film...but avoiding these weak links and delivering a meaningful story makes a horror film a better horror film...don't you agree...