Following up from the events that surrounded the death of Ryûji and the disappearance of his ex-wife, Reiko, Ryûji's girlfriend, Mai, is trying to conduct her own investigation into what happened. Teaming up with local reporter, Okazaki, who has been looking into it all also, she discovers that the spirit of a woman named Sadako has supposedly been behind the spate of killings using a video tape as an outlet for her murders in that anyone who watches the tape, will die one week later. As time passes, however, Mai realises that Reiko's young son, Yôichi, has been developing very similar powers to that of Sadako. Mai must now find away to stop Sadako so that she and Yôichi don't become Sadako's next victims.
Having enjoyed Ringu I was looking forward to watching this sequel, but unfortunately I was bitterly dismayed with the outcome. To get straight to the point, Ringu 2 is exceedingly slow and very dull. All the elements were already there for a really good, scary follow-up, but it's like they weren't taken advantage of.
Apart from the end scene with Sadako, there is no real creepy moments....in fact, the moments that are supposed to be creepy are, well, not, and they definitely don't deliver the same kind of uneasiness that Ringu delivered.
The film starts off decent enough, building on what Ringu had ended on, but it gets to a certain point where it just stalls completely only for it to eventually drag on to the end. For me, usually the original Asian versions of these films are better (or equally as enjoyable as the American versions) but that is definitely not the case here. The American version of this movie was FAR better and FAR scarier, and for anyone to think the opposite must have been watching a completely different film to what I saw.
Ringu 2 is a very disappointing sequel that had so much promise but failed to deliver....big time.
Having enjoyed Ringu I was looking forward to watching this sequel, but unfortunately I was bitterly dismayed with the outcome. To get straight to the point, Ringu 2 is exceedingly slow and very dull. All the elements were already there for a really good, scary follow-up, but it's like they weren't taken advantage of.
Apart from the end scene with Sadako, there is no real creepy moments....in fact, the moments that are supposed to be creepy are, well, not, and they definitely don't deliver the same kind of uneasiness that Ringu delivered.
The film starts off decent enough, building on what Ringu had ended on, but it gets to a certain point where it just stalls completely only for it to eventually drag on to the end. For me, usually the original Asian versions of these films are better (or equally as enjoyable as the American versions) but that is definitely not the case here. The American version of this movie was FAR better and FAR scarier, and for anyone to think the opposite must have been watching a completely different film to what I saw.
Ringu 2 is a very disappointing sequel that had so much promise but failed to deliver....big time.