'The Ring Two': Eerie scares overshadow plot holes
by Bob Longino

"The Ring Two" is one of those rare Hollywood sequels — a second chapter that holds it own against the ultra successful first, which earned nearly $250 million worldwide. Like the American-made original, "Two" is creepy with a solid, goosebump-making musical score, more than enough visual frights and a rattled lead character played by the more than capable Naomi Watts. Read the full Review

TO SUM UP
Reporter Rachel Keller and son Aidan are on the run from the first film's hideous ghost girl, the stringy-haired brat who crawls out of a dingy well and gets you if you don't watch out.

FILM FACTS ...
DreamWorks Pictures
The Ring Two

Director: Hideo Nakata
Starring: Naomi Watts, Simon Baker, David Dorfman, Sissy Spacek
Run time: 111 minutes
Release date: March 18, 2005
Rating: PG-13 for violence/terror, disturbing images, thematic elements and some language
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: B-
" ... creepy with a solid, goosebump-making musical score, more than enough visual frights ..."

Dayton Daily News: C-
"... sloppy, uneven sequel ...."


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