By the time “The Ring” gets around to delivering its big surprise payoff, it’s too little — too late.
The horror feels likes it’s already over when another character dies without putting up a fight or even running for the shear joy of providing an appropriate chase scene.
The audience is even spared the sight of his supposedly gruesome corpse because, either the special effects make-up team couldn’t get it right, or because
the filmmakers ran out of money.
Either way, the movie is a dog from start to finish, with enough genre inconsistencies and plot holes to make it a textbook example of borrowing from too many divergent horror films to get anything right.
Rated PG-13. 115 mins.
