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The Ring Two
2005
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19
Negative reviews
30
Average Rating
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2.0
And the production team has fun prowling around the banal details of contemporary home life.
EW
3.1
The charm of The Ring Two, while limited, is real enough; it is based on the films ability to make absolutely no sense, while nevertheless generating ..
Rogerebert
2.0
If youre willing to jump over the plots many weak bits, then this psychological thriller is a good looking spook fest and a should see for fans of the ..
Common Sense Media
4.5
Cary Grant never quite pulls off nerdy scientist, Harold Lloyd glasses et al.,
Austin Chronicle
1.9
But just as the directors creepy gliding camera endlessly haloes his distraught characters, The Ring franchise now appears content to simply go around ..
1.5
Appears to have been written on a large piece of blank paper by chickens with their feet dipped in ink.
2.5
Its hardly the best film in the world but you can have fun with it.
1.0
Its only at films end that you realize the whole soggy, overlong mess isnt going to go anywhere.
1.3
But theres nothing warm about it, nothing terrifying about the movie and nothing to root for, either.
San Francisco Chronicle
3.0
However, The Ring Two is not the best place to come aboard the Sadako (now Samara) Express Train To Terror: its one of those sequels that not only ass ..
3.0
Unlike the original Ring, a tightly constructed tale of suspense and horror, much of the sequel doesnt make sense.
Cinema Blend
1.5
Lame, lame, lame.This movie was an utter disappointment, a lazy sequel and featured zero scares.
JoBlo
1.9
But compared to its successor, The Ring was pure genius.The Ring 2 is slickly made garbage a dull, plodding horror movie that ventures into the realm ..
ReelViews
2.5
Hideo Nakatas English language feature debut, the sequel to THE RING (2002), brings the circle of influence back where it began: Nakatas 1998 RINGU un ..
Tv Guide
2.0
This is accomplished with a series of set pieces that carry the story forward to its final confrontation.
3.1
As in the first movie, theres a lot to the plot that doesnt make sense if analyzed closely, and, as in the first, the end is particularly implausible. ..
Usa Today
2.5
Instead, the filmmaker infuses the movie with flat visuals that arent intriguing in the least (an episode of CSI has more style than this).
Reel Film Reviews
2.0
But I find The Ring Two particularly disappointing, not because its a bad movie its more mediocre than bad but because it so thoroughly fails to live ..
Eric Ds Nider
2.0
Nakata establishes a nicely creepy atmosphere with a minimum of cheap scare tricks and draws strong performances from Watts, Dorfman and the supportin ..
News Review
4.0
This isnt a slasher horror film at all; it gets deep into the characters heads and tells a story thats scary from the inside out.
Shadows On The Wall
2.0
Its also unforgivably dull for long stretches at a time and the climax is a shockingly lazy rehash of the climax in the first film.
View London
3.8
The story is a retread of the old Exorcist and Omen formats, but it delivers as much action and spectacle as fans of the genre could want.
Cs Monitor
3.5
The Ring Two manages to repeat just about every shock from the original, but the eerieness of the first film has been replaced by a more pedestrian, p ..
Film Journal International ..
2.5
The films tone is also too aloof and cold, which may be what the filmmakers were going for, but it also makes it hard to warm to.
Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
1.3
The movies torpid pacing and blocks of dead space will leave plenty of time for a bored and frustrated audience to yell obscenities at the screen.
Boston
0.5
Unfortunately, unintentional humor and rampaging boredom are poor substitutes for creepiness.
Mountain X
2.5
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Star Tribune
1.3
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Toronto Star
1.0
First, the good news.The pre release blitz screening I attended was at a marvelous retro pleasure palace real movie house, seven hundred twenty people ..
Reel Talk Reviews
3.8
A lot of the beats are a bit too familiar from previous entries in the series, which isnt surprising given that this is the fifth film to play off the ..
Q Network
5.0
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Observer
2.0
Ring, last years scariest horror film which showed up both The Blair Witch Project and its sequel in all their mediocrity, was Japans most successful ..
Bbc
1.0
Good horror, like George Romeros zombie trilogy, works by balancing the reassuringly familiar with the totally unknown: its like getting tossed in the ..
The New York Times
3.1
The art may not be as detailed and the animation may be more ragged than more recent Studio Ghibli efforts, but as a visual spectacle Nausicaa easily ..
Mr Brown Movies
2.5
At first glance, Hideo Nakata, the Japanese filmmaker behind 1998s original Ringu and 1999s still unreleased in the U.S.Ringu 2, would seem an ideal c ..
The Movie Boy
2.0
But the most important thing you need to know about the movie is that it completely invalidates everything about its predecessor.The Ring (2002) was t ..
Bullz-Eye
2.5
But especially in comparison to its predecessor, this is nothing but a by the numbers horror film with little to offer in the ways of originality or e ..
Las Vegas Weekly
2.5
Its been six months since journalist Rachel Keller (Naomi Watts) and her ashen faced sunken eyed son Aidan (David Dorfman) outsmarted the sinister Sam ..
Hollywood
2.0
The movie never hooks its audience and becomes more intolerably pretentious and boring as it moves along.
Seattle Pi
2.0
But the scene feels pasted onto the script because it never resonates anywhere else.
Coles Mithey
2.0
The films structure shamelessly apes its predecessor while trying (and failing) to ratchet up its scares.
Pajiba
3.0
The film has a great deal of mood and there are some genuinely chilling moments, but weak characters sap it of all strength.
1.9
This does lead to the movies one truly inventive chill, in which the bathwater defies gravity with the help of some spooky special effects.
Spliced Wire
1.5
It reminded me of the latest Exorcist movie, with plenty to go on but no substance.And yes, I am being hard on this film.
7M Pictures
3.8
I was not however; one of the legions that felt very strongly that this was a great horror movie, a good one sure, but not a great one.
Three Movie Buffs
3.0
Shouldnt wind up the devotees too much and will keep fans of the first American movie quiet.
Raidió Teilifís Éireann
2.5
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Kansas City
3.1
Nakata effectively and confidently takes his time to creep us out.Hes much better at setting up the scary scenes, building tension and drama to the po ..
Waffle Movies
3.1
While the core of the same cast is still involved, the story plays out like all the ideas that were cut from the first film.
Movie Crypt
2.5
You will be able to save yourself from getting disappointed of watching nothing but a lame movie.
Window To The Movies
3.0
The result is wan, thin, and surprisingly boring, even for the simple needs of a genre picture.
Flip Side Archive
2.0
The Ring Two is just as preposterous and silly as its predecessor.
From The Balcony
3.1
The film may not be quite as good as the first one, but rest assured there are plenty of scares left in this franchise.
Entertainment Spectrum
2.5
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Movie Eye
2.0
This political subtext to this decades most popular horror films will be mocked and riffed upon for years if theres any justice: Whats the fun in a ho ..
Films Nobs
1.0
Tepid terror Mark Steyn The Ring Two 15, selected cinemas Ihate to dismiss entire genres, but Im not sure I get the whole Americanisation ofJapanese h ..
Archive Spectator
1.5
Like a good joke gone bad because the teller doesnt know when enoughs enough.
Juicy Cerebellum
1.9
The first film in this franchise was nonsensical to a fault, yes, but it was nonsense with a certain level of craftsmanship.
Cinema Phile
2.0
Theres no denying Nakata has a gift for creating terror out of essentially nothing.
Metro Weekly
4.0
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Film Force Ign
2.5
If you dont mind style over substance, then you might find The Ring Two somewhat engaging.
Horror
2.5
A few good gotcha moments and one solid thrill isnt enough save this movie.
2.5
Horror movies today never end.They simply pause long enough for another sequel to fly into production.
Wash Times
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