When will Hollywood learn not use series’ and stories that have no juice of being resurrected? After a nice two-part horror series of Ring, the producers decided to play again on the same franchise heading to an extremely boring film. Director F Javier Gutiérrez, does add few ‘modern’ touches but even those drive to an expected and lazy plot.
Rings movie review
- Genre – Horror
- Star Cast – Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz, Alex Roe, Johnny Galecki
- Director –F. Javier Gutiérrez
- Rating – 2/5
The story includes the same old tape, only this time the slope has been made from VHS to a digital file. Samara, the terrifying ghost of the girl has re-coded her curse and it now haunts anyone who sees the tape and fails to show it to any other person within 7 days. Rings movie review
Gabriel (Johnny Galecki) a university professor who’s gotten hold of the classic old-school Ring tape is in the middle of an experiment that involves showing it to a group of college kids, all to give scientific evidence for the continuation of the soul or the gateway to the other side. The way the laws now work- if your seven days are up but you make a copy of the cursed videotape and show it to someone else, you’ll live and they will die. Rings movie review
Julia (Matilda Lutz), after a disturbing Skype chat with her boyfriend, Holt (Alex Roe), tracks him to college, where she finds that he’s one of Gabriel’s guinea pigs. Then it all gets turned into internet horror monetary as the tape gets turned into digital files, and it also becomes a case of video-inside-the-video. In this one, there’s a new set of flickering pictures — burning corpse, church flood, cicadas in the shape of a crucifix, a snake eating its tail. But the new pictures aren’t all that diverse from the old images in reality. Rings movie review
The pictures turn out to hint to a mysterious disappearance, which leads Julia and Holt to Sacrament Valley, the sort of charming small town that has a dark secret and then starts a series of horror-drama clichés. Rings take the Ring code and merge it with the basis of 2015’s Room, with its coalition of evil and victimization. Just get the idea that if the kid in the Room wouldn’t have made out into the world, his destiny would have been quite alike to Samara.
The first two instalment of the film survived to get us all spooked out due to its content and of course the greyish spirit, black water. Though, the new one disappoints to even evoke a single scare. The director manages to use the remainder of ‘jump-scare’ often but the bad timing ruins it all. Rings movie review
The movie, isn’t scary, doesn’t live up to the legacy, and it doesn’t push you to think of tech in a new way. Anyone stuck in this incoherent nonsense of a film would be much better off examining chaos theory. It makes you wish that you could just rewind those two hours, or perhaps just erase them and go for real Japanese Ringu instead.
A disappointment in all form, not scary at all, In the end, Rings, disappoints the viewer.
