The Ring Two on DVD (2005)

A customer from Down The Well!!! , 01/04/2005

'The Ring 2' picks up six months after the horrifying events that terrorized Rachel Keller (Naomi Watts) and her son Aidan (David Dorfman) in Seattle.

To escape her haunting memories, Rachel takes Aidan and moves to the small coastal community of Astoria, Oregon, to start fresh. However, Rachel's resolve quickly turns to dread when evidence at a local crime scene - including an unmarked videotape - seems eerily familiar.

Rachel realizes that the vengeful Samara is back and more determined than ever to continue her relentless cycle of terror and death.

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A customer from UK , 29/01/2006

Having watched the Japanese Ring movies we were looking forward to seeing the US versions, however the characterisation was very disappointing. Naomi Watts came across in the 1st movie as a self-absorbed shouting maniac who had very little patience or understanding of the horrors that had emerged within her city, this was accumulated by the ending whereby she showed how she cared less about who received the tape next as long as it was out of hers and her son's life. This was a stark contrast to the original character who turned to her own father for help and had given instructions as to how to save his own life.

In the next movie we find her with her son in a new city in a new job starting their lives again and leaving behind their past horrors. However whilst investigating an event of a student's death by the tape she cares only that Samara is back for her and cares very little that the city (and by the magic of the internet most of the country) have been affected by a student 'ring circle' who cycle the tape around their friends for kicks to see Samara and have a 'taste' of the horrors of the unseen world.

It seems very strange that as a reporter she never thought to follow her actions up from the last movie or even keep in touch with what is happening on the internet or the cities, had she tried in the 2nd movie, this would have been a much more absorbing and deeper movie with better character development.

Those familiar with Hideo Nakata's Dark Water will see some touches of his fascination of the 'mother-child-abandoned 'ghost' child' syndrome filter into this movie, however this failed to transcend believably as Naomi Watts doesn't seem to have much understanding of much beyond herself and her son to realise the pain of Samara or the devastation of the lives of those the tape has affected. Even when she encounters Samara's real mother and hears that other mothers have had to battle the same evil she doesn't seem to want to explore their lives and understand how to prevent further occurrences.

Whilst the movie has some good special effects, we didn't find it at all very scary and reached for the remote control several times as it became very dull and boring at times. The climax of the movie was also very disappointing and limiting.

Our advice, watch the Japanese version for even though it is very different from the original Ringu it has more character exploration and follows some of the original characters from the first movie in an interesting way.

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Rik Birkett from Lincoln , 14/01/2006

Couldn't really remember to much about the first movie when I rented this so I watched it once again. The Ring Two is mainly about Rachel (Naomi Watts) and son Aidan (David Dorfman), they have relocated and are looking forward to their new life together however with a mysterious murder that is linked to the video tape, has their old life caught up with them once again?

As you can tell by the title I didn't think this was as good as the first, it lacked depth where it was needed and the story I thought seemed to be more based around her son Aidan' illness than the actual video tape itself. SFX and acting are standard (I expected better from Watts), and classed as a horror/thriller, I was expected to be scared (or atleast have a few jumps here and there), that's all I got! It was ok, probably worth a watch if you've seen the first but don't expect to much. Average.

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A customer from Herts , 30/09/2005

Not a very good sequel. At the begining it made me jump a few times but all in all, too boring, very slow and quite predictable in places. I hope they don't make 'The Ring Three'!

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A customer from Stoke-on-Trent , 23/08/2008

A bit more unusual than most thriller films but does start slowly but not a bd film with some popcorn.

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