Watts is a terrific actress, but there's little she can do to cover the cavernous gaps in logic in Ehren Kruger's script.
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04/09/05
The Ring Two (2005)
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Reviews Counted:176
Fresh:36
Rotten:140
Average Rating:4.4/10
Consensus: Ring Two serves up horror cliches, and not even Hideo Nakata, the director of the movies from which this one is based, can save the movie from a dull screenplay full of absurdities.
Runtime: 1 hr 51 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: In this horror sequel from Japanese master Hideo Nakata, the curse of the videotape returns. Rachel Keller (Naomi Watts) and her son Aiden (David Dorfman) move from Seattle after their first... [More]
Starring: Naomi Watts, David Dorfman, Simon Baker, Sissy Spacek
Director: Hideo Nakata
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04/01/06
Top CriticProvides one or two jumps and they're suitably creative, but they don't represent the film as a whole which is, in short, a mess.
03/07/05
This isn't a slasher horror film at all; it gets deep into the characters' heads.
04/06/05
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02/09/06
Top CriticNaomi Watts is excellent, giving a more complex performance than the film really deserves and portraying Rachel as a mixture of anger, toughness and vulnerability.
04/09/05
This movie is nothing more than a big number two.
03/18/05
...so much of the plot is just left dangling, you’d think this thing was shot without a script.
03/16/05
The Ring Two's abandonment of the original film's videotape-of-death hook leaves it floundering.
03/24/05
A tiny bit of the freakiness of the original is lost...but the pros outweigh the cons.
03/17/05
Bolstered with Watts' half-crazy, one-woman-show intensity, Rachel is one tough momma.
03/16/05
In the first Ring, you watched a videotape and seven days later, you were dead. In the second Ring, you watch a movie and seven minutes later, you're asleep.
03/17/05
The Ring Two is one of those rare Hollywood sequels -- a second chapter that holds it own against the ultra successful first.
03/17/05
This boring rehash has not one decent scare, its most unforgivable trait.
03/24/05
Dead in the water.
04/09/05
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09/26/05
Top CriticIn "The Ring 2," bathtubs overflow, ceilings drip, walls weep, wells vomit, characters nearly drown, yet ironically, the movie suffers from the lows of a creative drought.
03/30/05
An assortment of scenes from the original reshot with the sprinklers turned on, held together by the thinnest of plots.
03/31/05
Remember, they say, "before you die you see the ring"…it doesn't say anything about having to see the Ring Two!
03/18/05
The Ring Two, which, despite being made by Hideo Nakata, who directed the original Japanese movie, is almost worse [than The Ring].
03/18/05
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