AMAZING except for the ending

Rating: 10/10 (7 September 2006)

This movie was most wonderfully made. It moves at a nice, brisk pace and keeps you on the edge of your seat. The story premise and plot are both very great ideas, and the unfolding mystery is absolutely breathtaking. This movie isn't too terribly scary as you're watching it, but later that night and the nights following you can't help but imagine some of the creepier images in the movie, especially with the little girl Samara.
If there was one thing that messed this movie up, however, it was the ending. I'm giving no spoilers away here, but the ending was a bit anticlimactic, and the final explanation wasn't that great. Maybe if the screenwriter had foreshadowed it a bit more in the script it could have been better.
However, the ending is the only thing that keeps me from giving this movie 10/10. Everything up to it is absolutely worth watching, and I mean absolutely.