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Sadly Over-hyped

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Ring 0 is a Japanese horror film that serves as a prequel to the film Ring. The film features Yukie Nakama,Kumiko Asou, and Tanabe Seiichi. It was directed by Norio Tsuruta, based on a screenplay,written by Hiroshi Takahashi,is based on the short story Lemonheart from the Birthday anthology by Koji Suzuki.Ring 0 provides the background story of how Sadako later became the vengeful murdering spirit. The story starts with her as a shy, somewhat withdrawn, college student who nonetheless gets involved in a drama club. The director thinks she has talent, but some of the other performers start to get jealous of the attention he gives her. Meanwhile, a reporter investigating Sadako's spiritualist mother thinks there's something very suspicious about the young woman, and arrives on campus to confront Sadako just as a series of strange deaths start sweeping through the drama club.The prequel fell short in matching the greatness of Ring.Aside from the fact that parts of the film felt draggy and it was slow on some parts,it wasn't scary and horrifying enough to become a horror classic.Aside from that,the characters aren't intriguing enough for the viewer to really care about them.It becomes a case of an "exercise" of who and how one gets killed and a matter of how daunting and horrific one gets killed or not.Too bad that a lot would have expected it to be better than Ring or at least match its greatness would definitely feel disappointed.But nevertheless,it does not fall short in entertainment as a decent horror film.

Sadako is a shy girl who becomes a student of a drama club. The director likes her and think she is very talented girl, but other actors and actresses are jealous of her and find her strange, Toyama being the only exception. The lead actress of the play of the drama club suddenly dies, and the director chooses Sadako to be in her place. Many mysterious deaths starts to occur, at the same time, we have a reporter who knows the truth about Sadako's secrets and who is going to makes her life even harder, specially when everybody starts to be suspicious that Sadako was the responsible for all the deaths.''Ringu 0: Bâsudei ''is the prequel to the horror film Ringu. Here, we can see all the reasons why Sadako became the bizarre spirit crazy for vengeance. The only problem is that the movie doesn't explain many things that will happen in the next movies( like the cursed videotape) or other things, like Sadako's twin sister (who doesn't see to have any logic at all in her existence).In my opinion it is very weak as a horror movie, and staying only with the first''Ring'' would be a better choice for the series.

After the original Ringu, there were many people who tried to ride the horror wave. Not much unlike the known Hollywood tradition, the Japanese film industry made many horror movies in the same vein, as is this prequel to the original Ringu.This is one of the better movies to come out of the many copy-cats that followed the success of Ringu. It does tell you the story of the girl that lead her to become what she is (or was) in the Ringu movie, when you saw her. So if you've watched Ringu, you do know where this movie is going. Still it is more than interesting and engaging to see the journey of her! I don't know how it would feel if you'd watch this movie before Ringu, but one thing is for sure, if you like Ringu, you should watch this one too! It stays true to the original premise!

I liked Ringu 0 better than Rasen, it explained more about Sadako's history. Which you don't see too much of in any other "Ring" movies. It helped you build a person to person relationship with the character, rather then seeing her as a 'mean' abused child it portrays her as just an abused child. You sort of take pity on her through this movie, rather then thinking she's an evil spirit trying to raise hell. The actress who played Sadako was, what seemed to me, the only person that could play her. I felt they could've mixed in more suspense, and more thrills. That would have made for a better J-horror movie. It doesn't compare to the movies brought out by Tartan Asia Exteme. Such as Tale of Two Sisters, Phone, (Memento Mori, Whispering Corridors, Wishing Stairs) a trilogy, Premonition, H, Oldboy, and many others. If you enjoyed watching Rasen, Ringu 0, Ringu, and Ringu 2, you'll love the Tartan Asia Extreme movies. 'Phone' was my personal favorite, look at the acting of the little girl and you will see why.