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As much as I love the ring franchise this movie was so lacking in that eerie tone and film quality that really set ringu apart from all other horror movies. I really do place the Ring high up in my ranking of all horror movies. Its pacing, its cinematography, the slow development and climax arc of the story. I thought that I would enjoy this movie just because I am such a huge fan of Sadako/Samara and her story. But in order to enjoy "Sadako" you need to throw away all preconceived expectations that it is going to be anything like Ringu or the Ring. Because it most definitely is not! The premise of "Sadako" is what makes it totally worthless and shitty. The most obvious updated plot of Ringu would be to graft the story into an online viral video schema. But without any development, complexity. This movie really lacked color and creativity I must say. It's too easy, stale and stagnant. There is no dynamic arc. The cinematography is boring. The acting is boring. The plot is totally uninteresting and matter of fact. The only thing that was mildly exciting about the film was the action packed ending. The fantastic Sadako/frog CGI chase might be worth a watch. But really otherwise this film is not worth your time.

Oh, "Sadako 3D." How unfulfilled I was left after watching you. I waited many months for a proper U.S. release and Well Go USA fulfilled my want. Unfortunately, my excitement was drowned out by an offensive mish mash of "A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge," "A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors," and "The Exorcist: The Version You've never Seen."A high school teacher named Akane (Satomi Ishihara) hears rumors of a cursed video clip circulating online. The clip is said to show a man, Kashiwada (Yûsuke Yamamoto), committing suicide. Supposedly, anyone who watches the video is driven to commit suicide themselves. Akane refuses to believe the rumors until one of her students mysteriously dies after viewing it.Akane soon discovers that Kashiwada intends to use the clip to cause chaos and death, which will help the spirit of Sadako (Ai Hashimoto) find a host body for her to possess. Akane and her boyfriend (Kôji Seto) must find a way to stop Kashiwada from accomplishing his terrifying goal.I can't believe for one second that anything in the last act of this film is taken from the novel "S," which it's based on. Judging from the other entries in the "Ring" series, writer Koji Suzuki seems way too sophisticated to stoop to the monster movie clichés we get in the "climax" of "Sadako 3D." I can believe the first and second acts of the film might be based on the actual source material. However, I can see producers and writers trying to up the scare ratio for audiences and completely ruining the film.The general idea for "Sadako 3D" isn't the problem. The cursed video tape from "Ring" being converted into a file and uploaded to the internet is a natural progression that is very believable. The spirit of Sadako being able to manifest through any wireless device or computer hookup makes complete sense and is justifiably frightening. I just wish filmmakers would have spent a little extra time and money on CGI and practical effects to successfully convince me that what I was watching was authentic.This is the perfect example of business executives and studio heads taking a simple, sacred, and tragic concept like the ghost of a vengeful girl and turning her into a monster movie icon the likes of Freddy, Jason, and Michael Myers. It's not enough that Sadako climbs out of TV or computer screens. Now she has the ability to extend her long black CGI hair and wrap people in it as she pulls them to their deaths. As if that's not ridiculous enough, she also causes her victims to turn into spiderlike creatures."Sadako 3D" does have a few chilling moments where we see traces of the main character we got to know in the first few films. Unfortunately, it's not enough to merit someone wasting their time on this. Do yourself a favor and re-watch "Ring" or "Ring O: Birthday" and witness Sadako the way she was originally conceived to be.

The original "Ring" film is a horror movie classic. Its central character is Sadako, a girl in a white dress with very long black hair who climbed out of a well and into the living rooms of her victims through the TV. The creepy way Sadako's disheveled tresses covered her face and the jerky way she would creep and walk were copied shamelessly in several other Asian horror flicks, even several years afterwards. When I first saw the ads of this film, it was pretty exciting. This movie promised to bring Sadako in all her 3D glory, and I could not wait to see her crawl right through the silver screen right at us. However, when I got to the theater earlier, it turned out that locally, it would only be shown in Digital 2D. In fact, it had been re-titled "The Ring 3." Groan.Anyway, "The Ring 3" is about Akane, a young teacher in a Catholic girls school. One of her students gets obsessed in searching the internet for a certain "cursed suicide video" which rumors say allegedly showed someone committing suicide, and resulted in the viewer in getting killed as well. That cheerful student unexpectedly commits suicide one night by jumping through a glass window and falling to her death. More and more people inexplicably take their lives. When Akane's own boyfriend Takanori gets lassoed into a giant advertising LCD screen, she was hooked into a search for the truth behind this cursed online video and find a way to stop its deadly consequences.First, the positives. Akane is played by a very pretty young actress named Satomi Ishihara. She really pulled off the sympathetic character of the tormented teacher. She is very charming and great to look at amidst the horror, and despite the weird "super power" the writer gave her. There was also a little puppy love flashback episode to show how Akane and Takanori first became friends. That was a nice touch.There is really something so clean about Japanese cinematography. The contrasts are so stark and simple, they look beautiful. Those scenes where Akane was simply walking under the arches of a lonely corridor, or when she was walking on the rooftop against the bright blue sky. So nice and calm. Next, the negatives.While the first Ring films successfully conveyed dread and fear with the simple and even crude special effects of Sadako creeping towards her prey. This film goes OVERBOARD with its ridiculously unbridled use of excessive fake-looking computer-generated imagery! Despite this supposedly advanced computer graphics, the parts that were supposed to be 3D, like the hand or the hair that "popped" out of the computer or cellphone monitor, looked very bad indeed. The most absurd and over-the-top idea of them all is the terrible idea of transforming the iconic scary image of a lone Sadako into a HORDE of monstrous spider-like Sadakos with very long jointed hind legs and vampire-bat-like mouths. The ironic kicker here is that, they apparently can be easily subdued by sweet little Akane, after which they simply dissolve into a swarm of black moths! Senseless and stupid. Certainly, less is more.Overall, this is a disappointing movie, undeserving of being called a sequel of the original Ring films. I am giving it a couple of extra stars solely because of the beauty and performance of Ms. Satomi Ishihara as Akane. As for the character that gave this movie its name, Sadako, sadly lost her edge and practically became a caricature of her original self because of this film's indulgent director.

Rarely do I ever bother to rate anything, and rarely do I have the urge to leave the movie midway. Highly anticipating some updates in the special effects department and a twisting storyline, I sat down with my favorite drink and proceeded to watch with high expectations of a good scare. The starting scene featured a well dressed man, probably at the peak of his madness (but still taking the time to groom himself well and dressing so fashionably) trying to kill himself. Warning bells started to ring in my head, everything screamed 'overkill!!' and i started to doubt whether the rest of the movie will be the same.Your typical Japanese film, where the guys look like girls, and the girls look like sailor moon characters. The acting was terrible, the cast should have concentrated on their acting skills instead of spending so much time on their hair and clothes. No thanks to the script writers, the storyline was just stupid, laws of physics didn't make sense (how does a huge hand pop out from an i-Phone ?), time-line didn't match and some parts were just down right funny (Sadako really went to town with the whole gadget/HighDef technology part). Throughout, Sadako was a supernatural being able to magically appear across the entire country popping up anywhere and everywhere there was a screen, but was unable to sense the heroine hiding behind the cupboard in the same damn room!The original film The Ring used tension, great acting and simplicity in the storyline to give a great scare. This new film had so much potential, but unfortunately the person putting it together probably just graduated from film school (or probably failed it). The special effects deserved special mention, it was just ridiculous to see the main actress suddenly becoming Xena and smashing the xerox of Sadakos popping up all over the place. It was quite funny to see the scores of Sadako skittering around like an over excited schoolboy. Obviously the director watched matrix and decided to add some of the special effects to this school project.Shame on you Mr Director for turning a great horror film into a comedy.Acting 2/10 Storyline 4/10 Cinematography 3/10 Special Effects -3442/10 Overall -4,393,342/10