Mar 09, 2003 10:57 AM
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(Updated Mar 09, 2003 10:57 AM)
I waited patently for this horror movie to come out on DVD. I figured this was going to be the best horror flick of the new year. The Ring.
I have read the reviews of everyone who watched the movie and wrote their thoughts about it. I however might be one of the people who didn’t really care for the movie. Or should I say I really didn’t think the movie was scary at all.
I believe what took away the fear, or the horror of this movie was the fact I recently watch another horror flick that was release a few months ago called Fear Dot Com. Both this movie and The Ring have almost the same story line. The Ring deals with a video tape, and Fear Dot Com of course deals with a website. In both these movies if you see the video you have 7 days to live, if you go to the website you have 7 days to live.
But lets get back to the Ring
Naomi Watts plays a young reporter named Rachael. One day her sisters daughter ends up dead, and the mother want’s Rachael to find out the mystery behind her daughter’s death. You see the girl and her boyfriend and two other friends were at a cabin one night, and they watched this movie. Once the movie was over the phone rang and the person’s voice told them they had only 7 more days to live! Well at 10:00pm on the 7th day the girl and her 3 other friends all died. The one girl’s friend actually witnessed the death of her friend and they found her in a closet with fear all over her face. She looked like she was frozen in fear.
Rachael goes outside and hears a few girls talking about this video tape and how all 4 of them watched it and ended up dead. I guess there is a curse of some sort on this video. So Rachael begins her search for the tape. Now her son Aiden played by David Dorfman is kind of a depressed child. He always draws these wacked drawings of death and weird stuff. Aiden was very close to his cousin who just died, this was also the reason Rachael wanted to find out why she died.
Rachael, Aiden and Noah, who is played by Martin Henderson all watched the tape, so each one of them now has 7 days to live. Rachael finds herself hunting down the cause behind the video. What lies ahead for the 3 of them is spooky as heck. Will time run out for the 3, or will they survive?
My thoughts
The whole story is kind of weird, and there isn’t really any scary parts that I felt were worth screaming over. I believe the only thing that came remotely close to being scary was the very ending of the movie. What happens at the end is kind of freaky and if I seen what happened in real life I too would die of a heart attack!
Besides the ending the rest of the movie was rather boring. The search for answers took way to long, I did however like the part on the boat with the horse. I did like David in the movie he played an important role and with out him I don’t believe the movie would of been such a hit. David was the one who could see pictures from the girl in the movie.
This wasn’t a nail bitting horror flick for me, I have seen better. I love Stephen King and I’m waiting to see his new release coming out soon called “Dream catcher”. Now his movies are always freaky, or should I say most the time they are. This is just a generic form of Fear Dot Com. I still think it is worth watching cause it does have it’s good moments.
The actors done great, and their story line fit them. The director could have made the movie more scary if he showed the scary parts more often instead of just a flash of the scary parts.
