SummaryDr. Matthew Cooper (Michael Vartan) and environmentalist Emily (Lauren Lee Smith) trace strange happenings at their small Pacific Northwestern town to the oil drilling by the company owned by her father (Terry O'Quinn).
SummaryDr. Matthew Cooper (Michael Vartan) and environmentalist Emily (Lauren Lee Smith) trace strange happenings at their small Pacific Northwestern town to the oil drilling by the company owned by her father (Terry O'Quinn).
It's a far superior piece of filmmaking [than Encore's Hindenburg: The Last Flight], impressive in its special effects, its dramatic displays of technical know-how in the face of unthinkable catastrophe caused, you will not be surprised to learn, by an avaricious driller.... The cookie-cutter quality of the sermonizing in these films is hard to miss.
Giving the characters a few more shades of gray wouldn’t hurt, either, since the whole drama has a kind of cartoon simplicity that makes us feel like we’ve seen all of it before.
This middling-to-mediocre Reelz production is at least a few notches above a Syfy Saturday night movie. The special effects in "Ring" are sometimes passable and sometimes fairly terrible, but there is an actual story on display and manages to be somewhat timely.