I just got home from seeing this with my boyfriend. I feel let down. I had really high hopes since I liked The Ring. I think the screenplay was probably rushed. The movie was going into too many different directions.

SPOILERS


It started out with the same plot as The Ring. A guy had watched the tape, BUT he knew he had to make a copy and have someone else watch it. He only had a few minutes left of his 7 days, and he was trying to have a girl he barely knew watch the video... Well, she closed her eyes... and he was killed... but this was going on in a new town, a town where the mother and her son had moved to, and right after they moved there.
Then the ring girl, Sumara, tries taking possession of the boy. Then there's scenes about deer attacking their car, and stacks of antlers in the basement of Sumara's adoptive parents house???????????? And how she found the antlers, well, she went there and how lucky it was for her that the house had been put up for sale and she was the first one who showed up for the open house EARLY at that...
Sumara just wanted a mother to love her... Okay... and Sumara didn't have a father at conception either. Sumara's real mother said she let the ghost in.
To get rid of the ghost you have to kill your child. So why was Sumara still killing people after she was killed??????????????????????///

I feel it was just a bunch of stuff thrown together to make a sequel, and it was very messy.

I was let down by the first, and I doubt I will see the second. It makes me wonder, why do they spend all this money making inferior North American remakes of Japanese movies, when the same director is used? Why not just spend a quarter of the money tweaking and fixing up the original Japanese version (give it a quality dub/etc.) rather than wasting all this time and money?

Oh, right. North American audiences don't like movies that they have to pay attention to. They need everything handed to them.

That is true about the paying attention part. We want to be entertained, yet everyone is busy, so if it doesn't hold our attention, then it seems like a waste of valuable time.

Don't get me wrong, now, like I said there were some pretty scary scenes... just they should have worked out the story better before they made it into a movie.

I've gotta find out who the producer and director was. If they thought this was good, I should be able to have them look at Halloween Games pretty easily...    Yeah, right! I know better, but some how, some way I will get that produced.