dark water

2.5/5 stars
dark water
jennifer Conelly,John c. Reily,
Tim Roth
Dark dissapointment
first the good:strong cast, tim roth gives a solid supporting role as the janitor,Jennifer Conelly does an amazing job as the mother of a child going crazy in an old abandoned apartment building, and John C. Reily does the same thing he's been doing since Chicago: playing the sidekick. second, the atmosphere, the dreary rundown suburbian look from both mediocre "Rings" returns in a movie finally worth watching. okay now the bad: the almost exact same plot of both rings and The Grudge returns(a girl, ages 8-19, has been wrongly killed,choked,drowned or stabbed, and is using a tool,water,a tape, or a grudge, to kill the rest of the population.)lame! And as good of a supporting cast this movie has it dosent matter if they all dissapear in the middle leaving Jennifer Conelly and her daughter at the mercy of the script. The movie only gets worse with an ending that dosent seem to...well, end! and a total lack of intelligence: let me give you a hint Conelly if your "daughter" comes out of the bath with a hood on and sayys she wants you to read a book about death all is not well in the world of dark water. Bottom line america needs to stop making dissapionting remakes of Japaneze films or evolve their horror movies intelligence factor to the level of the Japaneze originals.

The best of the worst
the japaneze remakes get rated from best to worst.
1.dark water
Tons of acting talent and some actual intelligence(at least until the end) make this movie worth seeing.
2.the ring
it may be flippin scary and have an amazing atmosphere(see reveiw above) but a way over acting Niammoi Watts and an utter disability to follow the source material mar this one.
3.the ring 2
the same problems of the first one with less intelligence and dippier dialouge make this a movie for burying in a well.
4.the grudge
"Buffy" cant act, the characters cant think, Sam Raimi's agent cant get him a decnet movie, and audiences will laugh more than freak out.