Ring Around the Rosie (2006)

You won't be disappointed!

Powerful

A Masterpiece!

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Although "Ring Around the Rosie" was filmed with normal video cameras, it all the same has the look and feel of those ultra cheap shot on videotape movies that popped up in video stores in the 1980s. Needless to say, the low budget means that we don't get that much in the way of special effects or elaborate set pieces. The only way then the movie could have been saved is with the writing, but even in that area the movie fails miserably. The end credits for the movie list FIVE screenwriters, and it shows. The movie can't make up its mind as to what kind of horror movie it's supposed to be. It wavers between being a haunted house movie, a psychological thriller, and a mad psycho thriller, none of which is particularly interesting or creepy. A lot of that is due to the often incoherent nature of the movie. Things happen with no explanation or subsequent investigation (or action) by the heroine, and the characters (particularly the heroine) are murky and hard to get a handle on. How this extremely badly planned and executed project got a star like Tom Sizemore to appear in it, I cannot say. Maybe it was a favor for a friend, but I would bet that friendship was severely tested when Sizemore saw the finished results.

This is THE horror / thriller movie solely intended for the female fans of Sex and the City. Wimpy city girlie that seems to be completely useless in the real world visits the village house which has to be cleaned up for the sale. For reasons completely unknown she decides to do the job herself, maybe because the house is basically already pretty clean. (All the actors seem to be incredibly clean as in the Twilight saga - artificial, lifeless.) She is complete mental wreck that seems to collapse when she sees a mouse or something other horrible happens (like draft closes or opens the window). Even when she is frightened by her own shadow yet she insists that her boyfriend should leave her alone. (She has another, complete different mental issues with him, which are known as a "complicated relationship".) Then the horrible things start to happen. She rides a horse. The takes a bath. The warden cuts off head of the chicken in order to prepare a meal. There is even a really horrifying scene when her sister starts to bleed from her nose. What a shocker! And of course she has dreams and hallucinations, mostly messy and pretty weak.She should take her Xaxax or Prosac and find some nice psychic ward. She needs therapy, seriously. I have seen real people suffering by schizophrenia that seemed to be more normal that she is. Her boyfriend should evacuate this "relationship" at once. He is way too nice to waste his life with such pathetic waste of skin.As for the movie, it is real suffering for anyone who does not live in glamor / completely artificial city world. It is incredibly boring and lifeless.

The story of this film was all over the place. They do tell you by the end what it is about. I guarantee when you find out, you will still have a confused look on your face. The cast wasn't too bad. Gina Philips seemed to have this weird scream in the film that made no sense though. Oh look a mouse, SCREAM. Oh look a guy with an knife, small yell. Tom Sizemore on the overhand made a pretty cool creepy guy. At points he will really get on your nerves because you know he has a screw loose. The film does have its scary moments, but the confusing story line makes it a bit tough to really get scared. A few more jumping scenes or ghosts could of done the trick to at least make you love the movie for that, but it lacked a bit in that area too. So it had the potential, but failed.

If it was possible to give this pathetic excuse of a movie absolutely no stars I would have. This movie definitely ranks up there with one of the absolute worst movies I have ever seen.For one, it was extremely boring. For like 5 minutes every 20 minutes it'd seem like it was going to get interesting but nope it just went nowhere.The acting was horrible. I, myself, seem like a golden globe winner compared to the acting in this movie.Oh, and don't even get me started on the plot. The whole makes-no-sense plot was all suppose to lead to a "surprisingly good ending", but nope definitely did not. Once the ending was revealed I thought that they were at least going to explain why this girl dreamed the whole movie up, but nope. They didn't explain how her sister died.To sum it all up, if you have a choice between this movie and any other movie on the face of planet, get the other movie. I wasted 3 bucks to rent this movie cause with the title "Ring Around the Rosie" I thought it was going to be about a bunch of creepy kids (which absolutely scares the hell out of me). The title didn't enough have anything to do with the movie. This movie was just the very definition of crap!