Reviews

As usual the director has made another mediocre film. It's basically a student film far too long. The story could have been told in less than an hour episode and it could have been as well as a TV film. Such a waste of actors but I guess they have to pay their bills as well. Dialogues were at time even irritating for how they were obvious and bad. Cinematic ally speaking the film had nice images, not special though but that's the job of a cinematographer who is another person employed for the film. This director strangely enough writes and direct overrated movies, still manages movie after movie. For one thing is very skilled of is finding financiers and producers because anyone else coming out with those "thin" scripts with one plot would be impossible to sell even the ideas. I believe at film school they might teach story constructions and all but perhaps he didn't even go to a film school. He was already a genius, check out his homemade film he is so proud to show in each DVD. It's insulting the intelligence of the audience. I wish only that the reviewer would write honest article when his movies are released but because of what probably the distribution companies pay to the magazine by the time the film is going into the theaters all reviews are great (even though many magazine don't even get a screening copy or preview, weird isn't it?!) but months after that the same film magazines publish other reviews and usually those are more "realistic", in fact the latest I read finally told the truth, this movie sucks!!!

Another comic book superhero becomes a horrible movie. For sure Ang Lee was not the right director for this film. The movie is terribly slow and become annoying after a little while, to me allready from the start. Lets say that a good chunk of it could have been removed in the editing, so that one hour of good material could have been the result of the final film if not less... but regardless the script... Fancy cut away F/X from scene to scene and split screen aren't enough to give a good tempo to the movie. The 3D Hulk is bad, nothing compared to the TV show. Honestly why did they do it? But the worst of it is the story. It's impressive that such a crappy story even get produced these days. My reccomendation is to avoid the film so that they won't make enough profit and in the future those kind of silly production would be avoided. Isn't that Ang Lee is getting a little bit overrated now. I believe any other director could have done a decent work they didn't need him, he has certainly slown down the film a lot... without considering the many jump cuts through the whole picture, what's with that?

I have read a few of the comments displayed here and I must assume that many of the reviewers are not aware that RING is a remake of a Japanese movie. This "Ghost Ship" is full of ideas stolen from lots of movies. It doesn't really make sense. Also it has a lot of holes in it and honestly it doesn't work neither is a rally scary movie. Apart that the name of the boat is mispelled. You would say "Grazia" not "Graza" there is no italian word or name such that. There was an italian movie from the early 80ties, I believe is called "The Bermuda Triangle" or something. Which is a far superior film. Scarier to begin with and for sure more original than this which obviously takes a lot from the italian movie. I am sure the writer/writers (how come you need two to write such a bad script?) have seen that movie all right. Movies like this give you hope. If they produce them then it means that there is a chance to get your own script through or at least the illusion. This was one of the worst and predictable script I could think of. Me and a friend could anticipate all the scary scenes... Well, I am always surprised to read comments such as "The best horror movie I ever seen" and I wonder what the reviewers saw until now if they can only mention "Resident Evil", "Ring" and so on? No one thought that this was also a bad copy of "The Shining" for instance? Bad, very bad and stupid.

This guy is the most over-rated director around. The film is nothing special, it could have just been a 30 minutes tv film. There is no story really, just one plot and some attempt to create characters, but it's too superficial. Nothing to compare to any other film of the same kind. A copy of many other pictures, in the features he mention to have been inspired by three very famous classics but I don't think so, I guess he has copied something else. Is an amateur movie. Any film student could have done it better, but the question is: who made this guy an A-list director? This is (if it didn't have Mel Gibson and Joaquim Phoenix in it) nothing more that a b-movie or direct to video. Roger Corman himself I don't think would have produced it the way it was. The script needed a revision, rewriting, the dialogues are silly and predictable, the sub-story is silly. And on top of that the director shouldn't try acting. He is patetique, to begin with is not even cast right. He doesn't match with the film, that goes for any of the ones he made.

Also, a movie like this does not really cost that much money to make. Very little set (you don't need to build a house for that or grow a field of corn), very few scenes (with good actors you can film the whole in a week), as for the special effects, why making a CG character when a man with a costume would have been enough? >

You can hardly believe this film is written by a woman. I haven't seen such a crappy picture since ages. The jokes where very very silly and most of all - the situation where "stretched" for too long, really, as like they needed to "fill" the film. Repetition all over even in the dialogues. Let's not even analyse the dialogues though. Have you seen "Sex and the city", "Absolute Fabolous", "Friends"? Well this is just a very bad combination of the three... or should I say "plagiarism"?

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And suddenly this "movie montage"... do they really believe the audience is so brainless? What's the point for that, in the story I mean?

I don't know, thank god I borrowed the film. Do not waste your money with this. The movie must flop so that some people could start thinking of stories more than "two gags movie ideas"...