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ザ・リング/リバース(2016年製作の映画)
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‘Rings(2017)’ was the third one of the Hollywood ring films based on Japanese Ring film series. And it actually came out about a year ago in United States, however it has yet to come out in Japan where I was born and finally coming out in January. I suppose that lots of Japanese people are going to see the movie since Japanese ring films hit the big time (especially the first one which was really great). Back to Rings, the story is about a teenage girl, who finds that her boyfriend has been cursed by watching a video and has limited time to live unless he shows it to someone, involves herself in that thing by watching the video on her boyfriend’s computer in order to save him. Teaming up with his professor who also saw the video, they try to find out a way to save themselves without risking other people’s lives. Meanwhile, the girl makes an attempt to discover an identity of a girl that she saw in the video, visiting a place that also appeared in it...

For this new ring movie, I re-watched every single ring film including Japanese ones. Although I really loved Japanese ones except the 2nd one that was rubbish, I kinda got disappointed in how Hollywood remade the movies when I saw them first time. So that I had no anticipation for the 3rd one cos of the first two and as I expected, it was also terrible even though it was rebooted in some points. There are lots of things that I want to complain in that movie: when the guy picks up the phone and is told that 7 days left by some girl with a very high tone. What I wanna say about this is that it would be more scary if it were silent or at least some noises when the person picks up the phone in my opinion. And I found it kinda stupid when Samara (Sadako in Japanese ones) comes out of a tiny telly screen lying down on a floor. screen. I actually laughed at that scene, though it was probably supposed to freak me out or something. Well, in a short it was bad and you shouldn’t see this. It’s just a waste of time to sit and watch this 102 minute terribly made horror film. I think it could’ve been more shortened like into 90mins or two the longest. But I strongly recommend seeing Japanese Ring films (not the 2nd one though) if you haven’t seen them. Unlike those Hollywood films, there are some many scary, creepy and freaky moments in each film, also the way Sadako comes out of a telly screen might prevent you from sleeping that night you saw it. My first time that I saw the Ring was when I was 5 years old I believe cos my older sister loved watching that sort of scary stuff. And I clung to my mother’s arm, crying a bit when Sadako showed up but couldn’t have my eyes closed cos of my insatiable curiosity about how Sadako looked like haha. Anyway, I really do want you to see those good Ring films, not terrible remakes if you have time. But if you are gonna watch the 2017’s Rings, the first thing you do should be to watch/re-watch Japanese Ring series. You all could probably know how much I love Ring films then. Hope you’ll enjoy whichever Ring films you are gonna see.

Thank you for reading my brief review of ‘Rings’!
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