Scarier than the first, but not as interesting.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 29, 2010

Dead in the water.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 9, 2005

And while it all looks and sounds amazing (Gabriel Beristain's chilly cinematography and Hans Zimmer's eerie score are standouts) none of that really matters much if as a viewer all I'm doing is sitting there biding my time waiting for the end credits.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 9, 2005

It is like an exercise in cinema mechanics: Images, music, photography and mood conspire to create a sense of danger, even though at any given moment we cannot possibly explain the rules under which that danger might manifest itself.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 9, 2005

May not be a masterpiece, but it has its share of thoughtful little angles.

Full Review | Apr 9, 2005

This tired followup manages to recycle all that was obnoxious about the first movie while abandoning the one legitimately frightening element of the original: the tape.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 9, 2005

A perplexing compound of the silly and the glum.

Full Review | Apr 9, 2005

Watts is a terrific actress, but there's little she can do to cover the cavernous gaps in logic in Ehren Kruger's script.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 9, 2005

Too many loose ends.

Full Review | Mar 24, 2005

The let's-travel-through-the-TV-screen sequence was better in Fat Albert.

Full Review | Mar 22, 2005

I thought the original had a nice evil chill to it, but this is an unnecessary second chapter that dumbs down all the main characters and is curiously lacking in quality scares.

Full Review | Mar 21, 2005

This is a campy scream-a-thon in which you can alternate between freaking and cackling.

Full Review | Mar 18, 2005

Appears to have been written on a large piece of blank paper by chickens with their feet dipped in ink.

Full Review | Mar 18, 2005

As in the first movie, there's a lot to the plot that doesn't make sense if analyzed closely, and, as in the first, the end is particularly implausible. But overall, the second Ring is more entertaining.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 18, 2005

Tell yourself that it's not a horror movie but a farce -- at times a rousingly ridiculous one -- and you'll save yourself a world of disappointment.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 18, 2005

While the look and vibe are as polished and unsettling in their blue-white, washed-out way as the first Ring, it's more of a procedural without much real fright.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 18, 2005

Perfunctory, thrill- free sequel.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 18, 2005

Borrowing liberally from the Exorcist and Omen movies, and with little regard for credibility, The Ring Two has a familiar ring to it.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 18, 2005

An uneven story undermines this horror franchise, despite high-quality performances by Naomi Watts and David Dorfman.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 18, 2005

The movie is as side-splitting as it is creepy.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 18, 2005