"The Ring" DVD Review

I found "The Ring" to be sometimes creepy, but I would have been more horrified if the characters had been developed enough to draw me in fully.

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The premise of the story in "The Ring" is that if you watch a certain mysterious videotape, the telephone will ring, and you will die seven days later. After some teenagers watch a videotape and die, a journalist named Rachel (Naomi Watts) decides to look into the matter. She watches the tape, sees frightening images, and then spooky things begin to happen. Fearing she has only seven days to live, Rachel struggles to figure out what is going on. I found "The Ring" to be sometimes creepy, but I would have been more horrified if the characters had been developed enough to draw me in fully. I loved the evocative cinematography, but the strength of the story was not enough to sustain tension throughout the nearly two-hour film.