Rings Review (May Contain Spoilers)

I’m kind of late with this one, because I saw it last weekend. But it’s a nice little horror film at the end of it all. The beginning starts off kind of weird, with the whole plane scene, but I guess it’s to set the mood. The whole movie sticks to what the first two were though, and that is a mystery type of movie. Which my girlfriend and I both liked, because we were guessing what was going on throughout the film. The lead characters led by Julia (Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz) and Holt (Alex Roe) were just okay if we’re being honest. Matilda was kind of “meh”, sometimes she seemed like she was overacting. I thought it was comical to see Johnny Galecki (Roseanne, Big Bang Theory) in a more serious role, then of course Vincent D’onofrio makes a random appearance as he does, and nails it. But overall, they get the job done. The special effects are obviously a lot better since it’s twelve years later. But I will admit there are slow parts, I almost dozed off a little half of the way into it. Giving Samara more of a backstory in this one, was pretty cool to see. I was wondering going in how much more they could really do with this, but they found a way. Throughout the film, it’s like they think we forgot about the first two though, making Samara out to be like she’s a just a victim and not a killer. But by the end it comes together. There really isn’t a lot of very scary scenes in this one that wasn’t already done in the first two, but we get a lot of jump scares of just random things like a dog barking out of nowhere. It’s hard for me to judge a “scary” movie based on the scare factor because honestly, I just don’t get scared of them (No this isn’t some masculine way of me covering up for being afraid, I just have seen so many horror movies, like all of them, that nothing gets to me). I would say a 6 out of 10 originally but right up until the end which was absolutely awesome in my opinion, I change it to a 7 out of 10. The ending is brilliant, and I’d love to see one more movie where Samara wreaks havoc on the world.