Rings (2017)
Film Review
By the Geezer of Oz
A young woman, Julia, tries to avoid the consequences of a terrifying curse that threatens her very existence. If the curse is fulfilled her life will end in seven days.
The third film in the Ring Series, Rings takes place takes place thirteen years after The Ring (2002).
It starts off as just another Ring film, with essentially the same storyline and takes a turn into a plotline that we have already seen before in various other horror films.
Director F. Javier Gutierrez (Before the Fall) does a good enough job here to try and get something out of a very mediocre script. The cast, including Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz (L’Universale, Summertime), Alex Roe (The 5th Wave), Johnny Galecki (I Know What you Did Last Summer, Vanilla Sky, Hancock, TV’s The Big Bang Theory) and Vincent D’Onofrio (Full Metal Jacket, JFK, The Player, Ed Wood, Strange Days, Men In Black, The Thirteenth Floor, The Cell, Jurassic World, Death Wish 2018), do a good enough job to carry the film to its end, but ultimately it is not enough to save it.
If entertainment is all you seek, it can still be fun for anyone looking to kill an hour and forty minutes, but if you like your horror a little more interesting and possibly challenging, I suggest you give it a miss. 5/10.
