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...Rachel had a nickel for everytime someone had referred to her wit as “dry,” well, she’d be damn rich. As it stands, Rachel??s the one FM editors run to with their bland headlines and painful puns. Equally adept at counseling overwrought writers and overwritten prose, Rachel is master of every FM domain and her sparkling leadership will be sorely missed next year...
Further sleuthing leads Rachel to the tape, which, of course, she promptly proceeds to pop it into her VCR and watch. Immediately afterwards, Rachel??s phone rings, and an unearthly voice tells her, in a not-very-nice tone, “seven days.” The rest of the movie is divided into seven episodes (day 1, day 2, etc), in which Rachel and her ex-lover Noah—conveniently an expert in video technology—attempt to determine the tape’s provenance...
Australian actress Watts (known to some from her role in David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive) does a good job of portraying Rachel, and child actor David Dorfman, who plays Rachel??s son Aidan, is quite a bit less irritating than Haley Joel Osment. The Ring could have benefited, though, from a better performance than the one New Zealander Martin Henderson delivers in his role as Noah. He isn’t bad, exactly, but decidedly mediocre and unspectacular...
...Rachel??s insistence on unearthing her grand-uncle’s grave, which had been concealed under a tree in the Muslim cemetery, has dire consequences—especially since this grand-uncle was also an excommunicated infidel, an “unbeliever.” Koya sees Rachel as a disobedient wench far too bold for her own good and insists that the gravestone be smashed and scattered to the four winds...