Ring 2

Picking up almost exactly where RING leaves off, this sober sequel is as restrained as its predecessor and contains a couple of skillful shocks. But it's entirely dependent on the first film for back story — it will make little sense to anyone who hasn't seen the original RING — and gets sidetracked by pseudo-scientific gobbledy-gook. This time the protagonist is Mai Takano (Miki Nakatani), girlfriend of the late Professor Ryuji Takayama (Hiroyuki Sanada), who died at the end of the first film. Investigating the circumstances of his death, Mai gets wind of the existence of a videotape depicting a white-clad woman, her hair hanging down over her face; this a...