The main couple of the film, Julia (Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz) and Holt (Alex Roe), are straight out of a soap opera, complete with very limited acting range and flat delivery of what are meant to be emotionally charged lines. But Rings has plot holes aplenty, and they’re glaring. Yes, it’s a horror movie, and to be fair, many horror stories aren’t exactly sensible. The main story, which revolves around Samara Morgan (the creepy dead girl who crawls out of your TV set) and her history, is the kind of tale that, when you actually dig beneath the surface, reveals little logic and a whole bunch of contrivance. Another problem is that a lot of it doesn’t make much sense. There are so many lulls in the action (and in horror there shouldn’t be too many), they eventually clump together to make the movie one big slog. How is the main story?Īs above, it is slow. In Ring‘s case, unfortunately, the slow-moving side-story is simultaneously groan-worthingly genuine and the movie’s anchor, plunging it into the depths, never to resurface.
Some recent horror movies have used cheesy dialogue and a romantic subplot as satire others have made it tongue-in-cheek, meant to derive laughs from the audience. That’s why it’s so painful to report that the latest sequel in the franchise, Rings, fails to match its predecessors in any category, and that includes scares, acting, effects and story. The hype around any Ring-related release is usually off the charts. Send this page to someone via email emailĪrguably one of the biggest franchises in modern horror cinema, The Ring series of films (adapted for American audiences from the original Japanese film, Ringu) has a dedicated and loyal audience.
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