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Ringu 2
(1999)
After Reiko (Nanako Matsushima) and Ryuji (Hiroyuki Sanada) discover Sadako’s corpse in the well, the only living family member is asked to identify the body. He doesn’t want to look at her so her tells them that there’s no other person it could be. The coroner report said that Sadako only died two years before she was found, which means she was alive in that well for thirty years.
Reiko has been missing since her ex-husband Ryuji died. Reiko’s father has also died suddenly. Ryuji’s girlfriend Mai Takano (Miki Nakatani) wants to know why Ryuji died so suddenly and sets out to find Reiko and get some answers. She gets to know a colleague of Reiko’s and he fills her in with information about what Reiko was researching, a videotape that kills people one week after watching it. They go to the hospital where Masami (Hitomi Sato), the girl that witnessed Reiko’s cousin die, is staying. When Masami sees a television she begins to grab her head and an image of a well is shown on the TV. When Mai touches Masami’s hand she gets a vision of Sadako.
Not long after Mai finds Reiko and her son Yoichi (Rikiya Otaka). Yoichi can no longer speak, but can communicate with Mai because of her psychic abilities. Yoichi is also showing the same powers that Sadako did, being able to kill people with his mind. After Reiko is killed, Mai takes Yoichi to the island where Sadako and her mother lived and stay at their family inn. Will Mai be able to save Yoichi or will he become Sadako?
You Learn Something New Everyday...
 Fear kills. It's a serious epidemic.
It's okay to destroy video equipment that's not yours.
Boxes with corpses in them float.
Zing!
There were no good lines.
Survey SAYS...
While Ringu 2 was a lot better than Rasen they were still equally as boring. Rasen at least tried to be interesting and innovative, Ringu 2 was basically the same movie with different main characters.
At first Mai is trying to find out why Ryuji died, but once she actually finds Reiko she just stops investigating. No one tells her what’s going on or what happened or why Ryuji dies. She just stops caring really. Then, for no reason at all she becomes totally infatuated with Yoichi and hangs out with him all the time. Then there’s this weird doctor that thinks that water will suck up the fear that Sadoko is killing people over.
There are a few things that made absolutely no sense to me. First, why did they have to reconstruct Sadoko’s face? Her face was never bashed in or destroyed and they had her skull. Plus, the only surviving member of her family wants to cremate her, but they’re like “no we need to reconstruct her face.” Once they’re done making a clay model of her face, they give the body to the uncle who just dumps her body into the sea. Second, why did Mai take Yuichi to the island? What did she hope to accomplish? How come no one cares that she basically kidnapped Yoichi? He does have living relatives. I guess the ex-husband’s lover works good enough. Also, how is it that in all these Ring movies a bunch of people die around this one person and no one even thinks they may have killed them. I suppose that would clutter the plot between forgetting the basic premise of the movie and having a pool suck out the fear in someone. For a movie that boasts to be the real sequel to Ringu it has very little of Sadako in it. She’s in it for a second and she talks through a clay mask. It’s like they couldn’t think up a scary face for her, so they just made a shady clay head (that really had no features and barely resembled a human) and was like, “sure, that works.” Seriously, I can suspend my disbelieve for a lot of crazy things to enjoy a movie, but I hate those stupid things they throw in there just to fill in spots where they couldn’t think of anything better to do.
Ringu 2 lacked a lot of originality and seemed to be a desperate attempt to give the masses a sequel they’d enjoy. Really, why try something new (like they did with Rasen) when the old style works better. Seriously, being boring is a quality that makes a movie unbearable. I also don't know if this movie was trying to be scary or not. It had more of the Ringu feel, but had no scary moments. If you like...talking clay masks, murderous little children, gratuitous well shots, and a nonsensical plot lines then this is the flick for you. As for us...we give
That Wasn't so Bad Was It?
I was left Feeling: Bored
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