Rings (2017)
I remember seeing this third US entry in the Ring franchise not too long after it came out. It got slated back then and didn't do well financially. It pretty much ignores the Naomi Watts movies and starts out as its own thing - an obvious attempt to relaunch Ring as Final Destination type teen horror. It doesn't work. The two 'name actors' - Johnny Galecki and Vincent D'Onofrio - are good (shame they don't share a scene); the rest of the cast are young, charisma black holes, playing characters we don't care about because we know next to nothing about them. The colour desaturation is waay overdone, as though the director saw it somewhere and thought it looked 'cool'. And the story is a mess; anyone not familiar with the Ring mythology - and maybe even some who are familiar with it - will probably be confused as hell. Bonnie Morgan - the actress/contortionist portraying Samara - does a good, creepy job (no digital effects on her contortions, they're all done for real; the girl must be quadruple-jointed or something!), but doesn't get much to do. Typical - the best thing about the movie is underused. Not surprisingly, there was no follow-up. Galecki, D'Onofrio, and Morgan get this 4/10