i have always believe that the horror genre be the most difficult to master . to make an effective horror film take an amalgamation of talent and luck and one intangible that most can not figure out . to me and you have to love the genre and you have to have little studio interference . film like halloween and last house on the left and evil dead and and texas chainsaw massacre be all low budget and independent film and all be pioneer of the genre . all be also emancipate from any studio intervention which more often than not can destroy a director vision . i would think that somewhere in urban legend and the haunting vernacular be a good film until the moron who know nothing about film get a hold of it . i mention all of this a a precursor to the review because the ring be a modern day miracle . it be the scary horror film in twenty year and it be a studio project . i honestly never think that a film make by dreamworks would touch a nerve in the way it do . but with direction by gore verbinski and ehren krueger write one of the best script i have ever be privy to and the ring scar the hell out of me . to do a follow up be almost a no win situation . not since nightmare on elm street 2 have there be a more disappointing sequel than this one . i do not know where to lay the blame and because ehren krueger and whom i respect very much and return to pen the sequel and you have the director of the japanese film that start it all and helm this one . so where do the blame fall . be it the studio who interfere too vehemently . be it that the japanese original be that inferior to the dreamworks version . or be it just that lightning doesn not strike twice in most film . i be not sure what the answer be to that perplex question and all i know be that this be about as much of a true dichotomy from the first . you can not get any further apart . naomi watt be adequate a rachael and david dorfman be passable a aidan and but the continuation of samara story be perhaps the weak link here . in the original and she be an enigma . her story be such a mystery that it keep you guess a to what she be and where she come from . there be a blend of the changeling and a bit of the shin all roll into one . a sequel succeed when it extend the story and not just retell it . there be no continuation of the story here . no one bother to explain why samara can come through the tv and petrify you to death . no one bother to explain why she be still haunt people through videocassette . no one bother to explain anything . now maybe some be okay with that . maybe a mystery should remain a mystery . but if you can get past the regression of the story and then what be even more disturbing be that there be nothing remotely disturb and interesting or scary about the film and and everything that be freaky about samara in the first one be now like watch scooby doo and mystery of samara . there be no fear of her now . there be nothing remotely disturb about her . maybe i be expect too much and but this film be one of the weak sequel i have ever see . if they decide to make a third and they have well go back to their root and get verbinski back . be it wrong to expect this much from a sequel . maybe . but then again and there be sequel that can match the original and if not surpass it . at least two of the friday the 13th sequel surpass the original and if you be talk non horror and then you can also add film like lethal weapon 2 and bourne supremacy and of course classic like terminator 2 and alien and godfather ii and empire strike back to the list of sequel that either equal or surpass the original . now in my opinion and nakata be not on the same level a cameron and lucas or even copolla and so there be no reason to believe that he can create a good film that verbinski do . but suffice to say that everything that make the first such a paradigm for year to come and have vanish in this one . it be truly unfortunate a it feel like too many politician in this one throw their hat into the ring and try to make change that do nothing but give u another nightmare on elm street 2. and that be a shame . negative .