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It's a treasure hunt reduced to isolated jolts and more clues than you can shake a stick at (every fly on the wall and child's drawing bristles with unholy significance), and an utter waste of Watts.
A stylish Hollywood remake of the Japanese horror sensation that unfortunately has little personality of its own.
Elegantly shot by Bojan Bazelli and designed by Tom Duffield, with a chilling Hans Zimmer score, this visually stunning movie serves up generous dollops of designer creepiness.
I found The Ring moderately absorbing, largely for its elegantly colorful look and sound.
The boo! factor is waaaay up there -- a nine on a scale of 10. But the makes-sense factor is something like a three, at best.
Successfully envelops us in a disturbing experience.
A well-made remake that adds quite a bit to the original story. Alas, The Ring also feels dated and dull.
For a remake and a modern Hollywood horror, it's pretty good.
This movie is very, very scary.
The movie is a dog from start to finish, with enough genre inconsistencies and plot holes to make it a textbook example of borrowing from too many divergent horror films to get anything right.
The one thing that stood out from this movie is the incredible cinematography.
The American version retains much of the original but does little to justify its existence beyond the commercial considerations of relocating the setting to Seattle and filling the screen with Caucasian faces.
The creepy exploration of the unknown and unexplainable is far more frightening than the violent killings that typify most horror films.
What if you watch the tape twice, do you get three and a half days then? If you fast forward through it do you get fourteen? How about pausing it to go to the bathroom? Or only watching half, getting bored and turning it off?
As a concept, it's flawed. As a remake, it's good. As modern horror, it's a firecracker.
Not everything it might have been, then, but decent enough to have you tracking down the original.
Seat-moistening ... shot-by-shot faithful to the original film in many instances, yet fully capable of conjuring up molar-grinding moments of its own invention.
Based on a 1998 Japanese box-office smash, this electric shocker runs rings around its recent competition.
There were two points where I thought it was over, and both would have made for better endings than eventual finale.
Just in time for Halloween comes Gore Verbinski's chilling-to-the-bone suspense ride... guaranteed to have you biting your nails long after the film is done.
sets an atmosphere of creepiness that doesn't let up
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