The Ring Critique

The movie "The Ring" was a horror film that I found to be a major disappointment. The opening scene is probably one of the best in the whole movie, which in my opinion is pathetic. When the young girl in the beginning was killed seven days after watching the tape because her "heart stopped" after seeing Samara, I thought to myself "Wow, this may turn out to be an interesting movie," but they ruined it as soon as they showed the girl dead in the closet looking green and disfigured. I don't know where the directors are from, but in the real world, people don't turn green and look disfigured when their hearts stop. The movie continues with the girl's crazy aunt trying to solve the mystery of the videotape that could have been easily solved by the police, but not in this movie; the police had no idea how these teens were just croaking left and right. Rachel, the young girl's aunt, being the keen reporter that she is, goes up to the cabin where the teens saw the tape, and she watched it herself. She became horrified and realized she, too, only now had seven days to discover the truth about the tape before being killed herself. Rachel and her son Aidan get caught right in the middle of this twisted plot when Samara comes after them, and it's up to Rachel and her ex-husband Noah to save them all.

I didn't like how this tape was the reason people were dying because it is so unrealistic, which made it hard for me to be scared or entertained by the plot at all. I also think that the movie went way to far in-depth on such a narrow topic. This movie could have easily been shortened, which could have made it much more interesting and exhilarating. The opening scene where the girl slowly went towards the bathroom as the water slowly trickled out towards her foot and grabbed for the door handle was very suspenseful, but this was ruined because at this point your imagination was running wild wondering what was going to happen, then BAM! you see pretty much nothing and you are left wondering.

There were a few highlights with this movie though; it wasn't a complete waste of eight dollars. The special effects during the movie were really good, especially when Samara came out of the television at the end of the movie. I also thought the little boy, Aidan, was a good actor, which helped keep me semi-interested in the movie. Finally, I was happy to see at the end of the movie all