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...Ring is the first American remake of a Japanese blockbuster horror film that I have ever seen. It is also the first chillingly excellent American remake of a Japanese blockbuster that I have ever seen...
...quite as stringent for a horror film as for movies of other genres. Most horror flicks, that is, are so comically awful that anything with a semi-coherent plot and reasonably good acting already qualifies as decent, and the scale goes up or down from there. So, while The Ring surely is not The Godfather, or even American Beauty, for what it is, it’s quite good and worth seeing...
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...
While certainly not for the faint of heart, The Ring should be very pleasing for fans of thrillers and horror movies. For this reason, and because it may draw some much deserved attention to other Japanese films often overlooked by Hollywood and consequently this hemisphere, The Ring is a welcome addition to what has been a somewhat lackluster fall film season...
...greater than the other's. So how have they allowed themselves to get into yet another disastrous fight? This week Britain is set to suspend self-government, close the Stormont Assembly and rule directly from London, one more unhappy time. The immediate cause was a police crackdown on a ring of alleged spies run by Sinn Fein, the political arm of the Irish Republican Army. Police and government officials say republicans had vacuumed up more than a thousand sensitive documents, from conversations between Tony Blair and George W. Bush to personal details about security personnel. First Minister David Trimble...