This sequel picks up the story of the first film about six months later. It is still the same main character and although she thinks she has broken away from the scary and troubled Samara she couldnt be more wrong. She is working on a small local newspaper and raising her son in some normal life and trying to live with the nightmare she went through. When there is a mysterious death she is certain that the video is on the lose again and that Samara has resumed where she left off. The sequel lacks the tension of the first film and doesnt capture your interest or imagination. The original concept of being scared to death seems to be lacking from this film and the fact that the horror characters can now jump out of the screen is a little too far fetched for me. Samara is now targetting the son as well as the mother and this open up alot of great plots but it doesnt seem to be the case. They have got this film wrong in alot of ways with a pace that is too slow and lacks atmosphere and a climax that is disappointing. This is once again the issue of a sequel that shouldnt have been made.
I am sceptical when it comes to sequels that just have a 2 after them as i think it means they are not inventive. This sequel though was actually very good and i think the story was ok because it had a little twist on the first film which was nice to see.
The cast was good again as Naomi Watts reprises her role as the lead and again it makes you jump. There was one part of the film that was ver yscary and i still think about it now so as a horror film it is good and i like the fact that this sequel has workes as i thought it was going to be rubbish.
There is and always will be only one true president of the United States of America, and it is Martin Sheen as President Josiah Bartlett. Martin Sheen is a brilliant actor, and for all those who have not seen the West Wing... shame on you! Go watch it now and appreciate the amazing versatility this man has to offer as an actor. As an actor, and an humanitarian, Martin Sheen is second to none, and deserves every award he has won, especially those that celebrate his victory over alcohol, which nearly killed him so many years ago. So in the words of Leo McGarry... Bartlett for President!!
In 1963 he made an appearance in Nightmare, an episode from the TV science fiction series The Outer Limits. The following year he starred in the Broadway play The Subject Was Roses, which he recreated in the 1968 film of the same name. Sheen was a co-star in the controversial, Emmy-winning 1972 television movie That Certain Summer said to be the first television movie to portray homosexuality in a sympathetic, non-judgemental light. His next important feature film role was in 1973, when he starred with Sissy Spacek in the crime drama Badlands - which he has said in many interviews is his best film.[1]
In 1974, Sheen portrayed a hot rod driver in the TV movie The California Kid, and that same year received an Emmy Award nomination for Best Actor in a television drama for his portrayal of Pvt. Eddie Slovik in the made-for-television film, The Execution of Private Slovik. The film told the World War II story of the only American soldier to be executed for desertion since the American Civil War. It was Sheen's performance in this film that ultimately led to Francis Ford Coppola choosing him for a starring role in 1979's Apocalypse Now which gained him wide recognition.
This is as far as I know the only Lynch film he did not write himself. It is a simple, even sweet film, and yet still has that Lynch style. An elderly man hears his estranged brother has had a stroke and is determined to go see him. Unfortunately due to his health he can't drive a car. So he hitches a trailer to his John Deer ride on lawnmower and sets out on a 240 mile drive. This is the story of those six weeks and the effect it had on his and others lives. There are no chapter marks on the dvd, it was shot in sequence on the actual route. Richard Farnsworth was the oldest actor to be nominated an academy award. He was 79 at the time of shooting and had terminal cancer. This really is worth a watch... Me I had the hankies...
