the first ring be an absolute masterpiece and a milestone for the horror genre . it take psychological horror to a whole new level and hold a genuine sense of mystique and ambiguity and and make the deus ex machina more frightening than ever before . but whereas ring have me hide behind the sofa and ring 2 just leave me yawn or and more to the point and thinking right and tomorrow i be go to log on to imdb and tell everybody how much i hate this movie . most sequel be blatant cash in and but they do not come more blatant than this one . after ryuji death and asakawa and her son yochi have disappear . ryuji girlfriend mei suddenly ( ie . conveniently ) acquire psychic power and ensues to spend most of the film chasing after yochi for no apparent reason . when she not do that and she scream . a lot . some people die and character be introduce only to disappear without trace and and everything about the first movie be explain with pseudo scientific hokum and effectively kill any mystique which ring 1 possessed . as far a sequel go and think beneath the planet of the ape with spooky music and you have an idea what ring 2 be like . okay and let try to be balance here . there be some good point . hideo nahata direction be slick a ever ( albeit a little rushed ) and the acting be great ( a be to be expect ) and and there be some genuinely creepy moment ( i must admit i do take a shine to the edit sequence ) . but one of ring 1 strength be that it do not revert to cheap trick such a monster jump out of the shadow and guess what . ring 2 do precisely that . hey and i be sadako . let me jump out of the shadow and scare you a little . whoooo . bo ring . more to the point and ring 2 answered question which i do not really want answered . ring 1 be suitably open end and but in ring 2 we find out everything . we find out what happen to asakawa after ryuji death and we find out what happen to yoichi and etbloodycetera . but and frankly and i do not wan na find out . it for me to decide what happen to them . that what open end movie be there for and dammit . even more heinously and we be show what sadako face look like underneath that thick clout of black hair . i do not wan na know that either and because otherwise the horror simply doesn not work ( unless of course it do cleverly and subtle and like in ring represent that eye still scar the life out of me ) . in ring 2 and she just look like a badly animate cross between joan collins and a space alien . in other word and do not bother watch ring 2 if you expect the kind of suggestive horror that the first ring be so brilliant at . forget ring 2 and watch the prequel ring zero instead and to find out what sadako be like a a human be ( a oppose to the cartoon villain we have in this film ) . ring 2 take a lot away from the first installment and it mystique and it tension and it sense of isolation . ultimately and it a disappointing sequel and one which be instantly forgettable .