That was an excellent one.

n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

The movie is so badly directed, acted out, everything! This movie is so bad at one point my TV just turned off by itself. You'd think that an era of Hollywood movies that were so bad, like so damn bad would be over with so many new aspiring directors and actors and stuff. But this movie made me feel proud of myself for choosing only to go watch certain directors movies. I mean, even the music was ho-rri-ble! Like horror movies barely have music and in this movie even that was absurd.

This movie is a good example of a terrible reboot/stand alone sequel. It doesn't deserve to be associated with The ring movies:)

I didn't even know this was a sequel, as it is I'm not a fan of the horror genre. watch only if you like horror films................ else avoid.

From the start, this movie seems to not know what it's doing and has some difficulty having to come into its own in the midst of what's already established as a major, well-known franchise.The very start seems to either subtly undermine the "rules", by having Samara not actually just kill a viewer, but kill hundreds of random bystanders who have not seen the tape as well, which kind of really makes me angry, especially as we see a Samara kill happen later where Samara explicitly does not kill someone who is basically in the same room as a victim but who has not seen the tape. themovie then sets up this rather convoluted club going on at the protagonist's boyfriend's college wherein a biology professor has a group of students watching the tape, then making copies to get others to watch so they don't die. Somehow this is supposed to contribute to his research about life after death and the soul, but there's no actual information to gather; you watch the tape, get a prank call, then get attacked and killed 7 days later. No one comes close (or is supposed to) come close to death or to actually trigger Samara's appearance. The only data the professor seems to be gathering is pictures of their warped faces on cameras and occasional body markings. From there, we get an entire secondary plot involving a NEW The Tape which was hidden in some frames from a copy of the tap, which, apart from the way it was discovered, could essentially be its own completely different movie. It's tie-in with The Ring's story just feels contrived and stupid no matter how you try to justify it. The NEW The Tape is a retread of the old; a seemingly random assortment of esoteric images and video clips that are revealed throughout the movie to be relevant to the unfolding of the plot. While the first two movies pretty clearly established that Samara is evil and won't stop, one thing this movie did fairly well was establish a sense of confusion on that count. It's never clear whether the protagonist is being lead along by Samara or by Evelyn, and it's simultaneously unclear if she really was evil, or if it was some manner of "curse" or a matter of "release mah spirit and i'll stop", but as the previous movies established, "you knew I was a snake when you took me in" All throughout the film, there's tons of laughs to be had. Unfortunately for the film, they weren't meant to be funny moments. Virtually every serious dramatic point is just badly blown by questionable acting, even more questionable dialogue, or overly convenient "random" events, like the completely out of nowhere lightning strike that knocks down a power line to kill a character before they can reveal some important information to the protagonist. That moment was probably one of the most hilarious. Over all, the story is passably bland but what really makes this movie stand out is the laughably awful execution of just about everything. Every single important dramatic moment either fell flat or was unintentionally hilarious, and every single jump scare, EVERY jump scare, was hilarious and laugh-inducing. I haven't laughed at a horror movie this much in at least 4-5 years.