"Ring" in the Sequel!
"The Ring" and "The Ring 2"
Amanda Thomas
Issue date: 4/21/05 Section: Entertainment
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It starts out with two girls having a sleepover, both dressing in school uniforms and chatting aimlessly. One decided to mention a tape, and no it is not pornography. The deal with this tape is that after you watch it, you get a phone call and the person on the line says that you have seven days to live. The other girl starts to freak out, saying that she had watched that tape. Within ten minutes, girl #2 is dead and girl #1's mind has cracked like an egg.
And so begins a quest for understanding that centers around a videotape and a creepy little girl named Samara. Rachel Keller (Naomi Watts), ace reporter, leads the search with her ex-boyfriend Noah (Martin Henderson), paparazzi, and tag-along son Aidan (David Dorfman). The catch is that Rachel has only six days when they start, Noah seven and Aidan seven. It works like golf that the person with the lowest count wins, or rather in this case dies first. That isn't much time to unravel a mystery around an urban legend, especially when creepy things keep happening that deters you from your goal.
SPOILER ALERT! You find out in the end that if you watch the tape, copy it, and then get someone else to watch, you are perfectly fine and will live beyond the original sentence, or that you scored above par. It works like parole. And that leads right into the sequel.
"The Ring Two" picks up the story about six months later in a small town somewhere on the West Coast in Oregon called Astoria. Rachel and Aidan moved to escape the haunting memories of the tape and of what it did, not that I can blame them. I would too if a creepy dead ghost child was trying to kill me.
Sadly, their peaceful new home doesn't stay that way for long. And if it had, there wouldn't be a sequel for me to review anyway.
As Rachel is leaving work one evening at her new newspaper job, she sees everyone clustered around the police scanner listening to a report of a possible homicide. With a sinking feeling in her stomach, Rachel goes to investigate. And throughout this movie, Rachel seems to be a felon. She trespasses several times, as well as breaking and entering, and falsifying information to get other information. I guess being a reporter puts you above the law in some places.