![]() Naomi Watts as Rachel holds up very well as the centrepiece of the film and remains a constant link to the audience making the drama more real. ![]() It is however extremely well suited to the film and very well executed. Notably, there is nothing terribly exceptional about the acting in this film, it is by no means truly award worthy. What follows is an exposition mystery about the chilling origins of the tape, and the power behind the sudden death of each viewer. Unfortunately for her, she watches it and to her horror she receives a phone call, she now has seven days to solve the puzzle or end up like the others. Partially motivated by the will of the dead girls parents to find an answer as to how their daughter's heart simply stopped, Rachel successfully finds the tape the group watched. When four teenagers die, simultaneously at 10pm exactly seven days after secretly staying at a secluded cabin a reporter named Rachel, who was the mother of a boy named Aidan, who was a cousin to one of the girls decides to investigate. The problem is when the tape concludes, the phone rings and a voice tells you that you will die in exactly seven days. The Ring is about a tape, a tape that features some rather disturbing yet very `student film' like snapshots of what can only be described as someone's nightmare. An art often lost on modern films and obviously inspired by the original (I have not seen the original), the subtle approach to making these kinds of films is delivered to the screen close to an eerie perfection. Disturbing from start to end the film quite effectively leaves you writhing in your seat, grasping a loved one until its gripping conclusion without a single piece of gore at all. Well crafted, extremely well developed and perfectly executed this remake of the 1998 Japanese Horror film Ringu' is one movie to fit into your top 10 scare flicks. It must be said however that this film is probably one of the more successful scare flicks, in the spirit of movies like The Exorcist'. I say `for the most part' because it is tough to define what is scary for everyone, and I don't deny that this film may not scare many people as easily as others. That should be enough for any scare enthusiast to justify the price of the ticket, and for the most part no one will be disappointed. A one line review of this film would simple be `The Ring does what most scary films promise, but never deliver'.
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