Rings (2017)
Film Review
By the Geezer of Oz
A young woman 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.
Rings, the third instalment in The Ring franchise, takes place thirteen years after The Ring (2002).
It starts off as just another addition in the series, giving us much of the same, with an essentially identical storyline to its predecessors and takes a turn into a familiar plotline that we have already seen before, but 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, Men In Black, The Thirteenth Floor, The Cell), do a good enough job to carry the film to its conclusion, 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, like me, you like your horror a little more interesting and possibly challenging, perhaps this one is one to avoid.
5/10.
