Rings

Movie Review
Release on: Feb 03, 2017

Movie name	:	Rings
Genres	:	Drama, Horror
Run time	:	102 min
Produced by	:	Laurie MacDonald
Directed by	:	F. Javier GutiÃ©rrez
Music by	:	Matthew Margeson
Writers	:	David Loucka, Jacob Estes
Cinematography	:	Sharone Meir
Edited by	:	Jeremiah O'Driscoll Steve Mirkovich
Production	:	Parkes/MacDonald BenderSpink
Countries	:	USA

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Stars : Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz, Alex Roe, Johnny Galecki, Vincent D'Onofrio, Aimee Teegarden, Bonnie Morgan, Chuck David Willis, Patrick R. Walker, Zach Roerig, Laura Wiggins, Lizzie BrocherÃ©, Karen Ceesay, Dave Blamy, Michael E. Sanders, Randall Taylor, Drew Grey, Kayli Carter, Jill Jane Clements, Ricky Muse, Jeremy Harrison, Jay Pearson, Rose Bianco, Ryan Lewis, Adam Fristoe, Rick Baker, Zoe Pessin, Francis Dobrisky, Hunter Flanagan, Brice Anthony Heller, Billy James, Adam C. Johnson, Hannah Lori, Melvin Kindall Myles, Chris Russell, Arjen Tuiten, Dawn Young-McDaniel

Story : Julia becomes worried about her boyfriend, Holt, when he explores the dark urban legend of a mysterious video said to kill the watcher seven days after viewing. She sacrifices herself to save her boyfriend and in doing so makes a horrifying discovery: there is a "movie within the movie" that no one has ever seen before.

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The third instalment of the The Ring horror franchise, based on the famous Japanese films is less of a sequel and more of a remake. The ghostly girl (Samara) with long dark hair, who crawls out of the television, is not scary anymore. You want to shave her head and tell her that Phoebe’s artwork in ‘Friends’ (read Gladys) was more terrifying. Nothing about Samara intrigues you so it’s time the makers let her evil character rest in peace. You’d rather see her hilarious parody in the Scary Movies.

What makes this outing the worse among its series so far is its imitation of the ‘Final Destination’ death pace and sensibility. People die in various ways before you bother to care and the uninspiring investigation that follows fails to arouse interest. At least the 2002 Naomi Watts film kept the mystery alive till the end, involving you in its story. Its eerie silence and unhurried proceedings allowed fear to creep in.

The 2005 sequel was tolerable too if not as effective but the latest film is a total damp squib. The lead actors meet obscure characters, who help decode Julia’s signs as people die. The plot is clichéd and unnecessarily complicated. By the time the protagonists solve the puzzle, you lose interest in their existence or consecutive death. There seems to be a serious dearth of scares as not a single scene manages to leave you shaken.

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