Reiko takes Yôichi into hiding when her son begins to display frightening powers. Meanwhile, Mai Takano and the authorities begin a desperate search for them, as the mysterious Ring curse sp... Read allReiko takes Yôichi into hiding when her son begins to display frightening powers. Meanwhile, Mai Takano and the authorities begin a desperate search for them, as the mysterious Ring curse spreads.Reiko takes Yôichi into hiding when her son begins to display frightening powers. Meanwhile, Mai Takano and the authorities begin a desperate search for them, as the mysterious Ring curse spreads.
- Awards
- 1 nomination
- Kanae Sawaguchi
- (as Kyoko Fukada)
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaRingu (1998) and Spiral (1998) were shot back-to-back from the novels by Koji Suzuki and released in theaters as a double bill. After audiences hated The Spiral, Asmik Ace Entertainment hired the cast and crew of the original to make this replacement sequel Ring 2.
- Quotes
[regarding Yoichi's powers]
Mai Takano: Hey, will you promise me something?
Yoichi: What?
Mai Takano: That you'll never do that again... no matter what happens.
[pause]
Mai Takano: It's really scary. OK?
Yoichi: Are you on my side?
There's less tension evident in `Ring 2' than the previous, less a sense of worry and desperation. Part of this is due to the shifting of character's prominence. Another element is because this movie takes a somewhat more analytical approach to the events of the first the police are involved, scientists are trying to understand the phenomena. While this makes sense from a realism angle, it does somewhat detract from the underlying menace of Sadoka.
Structurally the movie takes the same idea as the previous a slow build up to a climatic event, interspersed with some moments of terror. Some of this terror now comes from a child playing on innocence and the child in question, Yoichi, is quite capable of being frightening in a blank-faced way. However he's just not as capable as having the greater, unknown, terror the previous movie produced like any sequel in the genre there's the feeling of the killer slashing their way through each flick.
Nakata is fairly competent with what he has. The lighting is often muted, the camera work focused (without being intense), his actors giving grand performances but somehow the second time it doesn't work out quite as well. This, coupled with a disappointing ending, left me somewhat disappointed. There's some good moments in it particularly with the television images but overall it fails to quite grab you. Still a far more intelligent fare than the gore-drenched horror that most adhere to in this genre, and you could do a lot lot worse. 6/10.
- Aidan McGuinness
- Jun 29, 2002
Details
Box office
- Budget
- $6,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $65,586
- Runtime1 hour 35 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1