Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

atinder I have see Rimgu 2 (I have not seen for a while) few times before I even heard of this movie.I think Ringu 2 was okay movie, it wasn't bad but could hAve been so much better, then it was as I loved The Ringu I was hoping this would be an lmprovement of Ringu 2 but once a again, it was another let down.Rasen (1998) Is The forgot Ringu sequel, it came out almost at the same time as Ringu 2 as( it sequel in tgr book series as well,) it was huge flop and then a year later Ringu 2 came out.Now I know, why it is know as the forgotten sequel, it wasn't really that good or that scary, it was just really bizarre..The move was not scary at all, we don't see any one come out of the TV set, We do see Sadako, who just appears from no were. next to person who seen the tape. She looks just like normal human person, who trying seduce the person who seen the tape. I found this really forgettable.Only recently found out there is also a TV show called Rasen as well based on Ringu series.4 out of 10

purban I think that many movies are misjudged here on the IMDb, particularly those within the "horror" genre. For some people, horror should be funny, while for others, humor in horror ruins a film. Some people are gore fans, and others favor suspense. When horror has so many different faces, the viewer ratings here on IMDb reflect opinions from those going into a film that will inevitably be disappointed, because their definition of "horror" is not what this particular horror movie happens to be...hence middling scores on a great many horror movies here on IMDb, as well as very mixed comments from viewers. I try to judge a film based on its own merits, rather than my expectations going into a film...and sometimes when my first impression is to be disappointed, I find other value in the film when I realign my expectations to view a film for what it is.I have to say, that this film is not really a "horror" movie. And that is OK. It is a drama that departs from the original horror film. And that is fine too. What is not fine, is that this is not a particularly interesting drama. While it is filmed and framed extremely well, pretty pictures don't substitute for an involving story and characters that you care about. For the most part, this plays like a TV drama. While the final scene is good, that doesn't make the film worth-while. I'm a viewer who can find good in most films, and I can find good in this film as well. All the same, I have to say that the good isn't worth it, and this is a film that is completely worth skipping.For a more worthy title worth your viewing, check out "Another Heaven" by the same director. While not a perfect film by any means, it is entertaining, and your time will be better spent.

Sakura Willow I'm just gonna give you the real low-down on what goes on in Spiral, save you from watching most of it...'Spiral' is about this doctor who wants to kill himself because of the death of his son (partly his fault). However, he can't do it. One day he finds that his old rival from school Ryuji is on the chopping board after being found death in his flat the other day.The death looks strange and the police think it was either murder or suicide, Andou however thinks it's just sudden death. There is some strange things in this sudden death, even to Andou. He finds these coded numbers in the throat of Ryuji.After this... cuts through boring blah-blah... Reiko Asakawa is found dead. Here, her snoopy ex-boss keeps turning up. On one occasion, he turns up to show Andou the diary of the now sadly dead, Reiko Asakawa. In this diary, it explains everything that she felt, thought and saw during her life 'particularly, the cursed videotape and what she and Ryuji were up to' in the week. While being given the diary and the video, Ryuji appears and grins at Andou. After that, Yoshino gives him a copy of the tape he stole from Reiko's flat, and disappears till later in the movie...After watching the videotape, Andou has a nightmare about Sadako's death. He thinks that what Ryuji is haunting him for is that he wants him to destroy the videotapes before he dies. So, he tells Mai about it and ends up sleeping with her (hmmm...) After that, Andou asks Miyashita (his pal) to run the virus tests on him (to see if they matched Ryuji's and Yoichi's) to see if he's contracted the virus. Miyashita then reads the diary...After a spoiler which I can't tell you. Yoshino comes forward to Andou to tell him that he's having nightmares about Sadako's well. Andou believes that Yoshino must have watched the videotape, but he exclaims that he didn't, and wishes that he'd never laid eyes on 'the diary'. So Yoshino makes Andou take them... Before dying of what seems to be a strange bruising of the neck. Ryuji and Yoichi didn't die this way, so this didn't seem right... However, Andou goes on blaming the video...In Yoshino's sample, it proves that he died a new virus, working with Sadako's virus.So they all think it must be a new illness.Miyashita also comes forwards and tells Andou that he's have nightmares about the well as well. Knowing that Miyashita hadn't watched the video, he starts to believe that maybe Yoshino had got the virus some other way. After all, there is a new virus working with Sadako's virus... And there is only one other way Miyashita could have contacted the 'Ring Virus'...Reiko's diary! Why is it Reiko's diary causing all the trouble, and not the videotape? After all, Andou watched the videotape and has destroyed them all because of what Ryuji wanted him to do? Will Ryuji want the diary destroyed next? And what about Mai, where the hell has she disappeared to in the movie??? Some of those answers will be answered if you read the diary.

sophie_lou21 "The Spiral" or "Rasen" starts with us meeting the suicidal Mitsuo Andou (Japanese star Koichi Sato), depressed and sorry that he allowed his son to drown in the sea. However, he can't bring himself to slit his wrists. That morning he gets a call from his buddy Miyashita (Shingo Tsurumi) telling him that the guy on the chopping board that day is Ryuji Takayama (played by the great Hiroyuki Sanada), who was Andou's old rival in Med. School.During the autopsy (which is about the only scary thing in the movie!) Andou has a flashback about how he and Ryuji used to always make number codes for words. When they find a clot in Ryuji's neck, guess what's there! Nope, one of the number codes! (So some how, Ryuji managed to swallow that before he died, even when he didn't know he'd happen!) After doing the autopsy, the inspector tells them that he's suspicious of Ryuji's ex-wife Reiko Asakawa, whom they seem to think murdered him. Trying to find out more answers, he talks to Ryuji's girlfriend, the boring and extremely dull Mai Takano (played bluntly by Miki Nakatani). Some how (despite the fact that in 'Ring' Ryuji never told anyone about videotape and never went near anyone but Reiko), Mai knows everything about the cursed videotape and says that's why Ryuji died.That night, Andou take the numbered paper found in Ryuji's throat home and decides to work it out. The codes come up as 'D-N-A'. Andou thinks it's rubbish. (Insert boring and pointless moment with Mai here). Andou goes to the lab to show Miyashita why Ryuji really died. It turns out that he had a tumor in his heart. Just then, Andou and Miyashita are called on to do a quick autopsy... Reiko Asakawa and Yoichi Asakawa have been found.As soon as Andou hears that Yoichi died too... He cries (the only mourner!). Suddenly, Yoshino (Reiko's head of dept.) turns up and points out that a video deck is in the car.Andou finds that strange, and he starts to believe Mai was right! (Insert yet another pointless view of Mai walking down the street looking sorry for herself!) Cut to Mai getting a letter with maths info and a picture of a man and a young boy, holding hands...What it means... We'll never, ever know... believe me.2 out of 5 stars.