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RING
2
PLOT
Sadako's body has been found... but the tape still lives on. This
time, Mai Takano gets in touch with Reiko Asakawa and her son
Yoichi in order to find out what happened to her boyfriend. What
she eventually finds out, might be the death of herself.
REVIEW
About a year back I watched this sequel to the Japanese masterpiece
Ringu, and as I remember it, I loved it back then, perhaps even
more than the first film. But this time I can't say that I liked
it too much. The plot is basically the same as in the first one,
only that you can tell that this had a higher budget as there are
more effects involved (which the director is determined to show
to us repeatedly). As much as we all love cool effects, this movie
would probably have worked better without them.
I liked the concept of bringing Miki Nakatini, playing Mai Takano,
back as we only got to see a glimpse of her in the previous movie
and she sure is a great actress. The acting is just as good as in
the first Ringu, but somehow you cared more for the people in the
first than in this, I don't know why that is. The directing remains
brilliant from Hideo Nakata, who also directed the first movie and
the genuinely creepy ghost story Dark Water.
After watching this again, I have to say that I have more respect
for the American The Ring than I did before, so I was a little
hard on it when I wrote the review for that, please keep that in
mind. The reason why my respect to the American remake of Ringu
grew after I watched this was because I had thought that many of
the scenes included in Ringu 2 was in Ringu and that the American
remake had just decided to remove those scenes, so I beg your
pardon for that.
GORE
A little stream of blood is all we get in this movie, but like I
said, movies like these doesn't need gore to be entertaining.
SOUNDTRACK
Where did all the creepy sounds and piano music from the original
go? This was more silent than silent movies in the music department.
We get some piano play at like two points in the movie, but that's
it, very disappointing indeed.
BOTTOM LINE
Clearly not as good as the first one, but a descent attempt for a
sequel, we all know that sequels to great movies are really hard
to make. The story was too similar and the effects where way to
overused, even if they were cool. I still think that this does
deserve a watch and it's a damn nice addition in your DVD collection.
Review
By: AnthroFred
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