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Fear Dot Com was obviously a rip of the original Ringu written by Suzuki Koji and Directed by Hideo Nakata. This movie has some cool macabre effects and camera angles. And the pacing is okay until about halfway in when it takes Dorph to the hospital in a very clunky way, that whole transition is just not done well and his lines sound confused as well. It's a failure because the script is terrible. We have a young hemophiliac girl who plays in an old steel mill as a child... yeah that makes sense... not. What mother would even let their daughter play in an abandoned steel mill, let alone one with hemophilia. But I digress. The movie touches on all sorts of thought processes, and story arcs without following any of them through. The site, there's no investigation there, just the poignantly idiotic excuse that he leaves the site after each kill... well question... how do people get the new site? And if he owns the domain and has his dynamic DNS site bounced to the domain to remain anonymous, would there not still be someone paying for the domain and hence a paper trail of some kind? I mean that's not even gone into at all. The picture in the camcorder.. the blurry face...we never figure out what or who that is. The woman... come find me... if you win you get me if you lose you die... so who is the woman? Why was the mother so calm talking about her daughter? It feels like the actors were simply given very confusing direction if any at all so the characters like conviction, depth and believability throughout the film. The movie lacks cohesion, the script lacks decent dialog, character development, and story progression, typing up of loose ends. The whole hide and go seek thing - there's no sense of searching for anyone, there are no clues, no figuring anything out, just a white ball, and being led by the hand to an unknown destination. The Ring was a great movie because Naomi Watts has to figure things out and we go with her through the movie figuring it out along with her at the same time. It's a good script that makes sense and takes skill to piece together...and is really scary and tension building, this movie was just a silly failed attempt at the bizarre. Sort of a cross between Prince of Darkness and The Ring with a Doctor Phibes type thrown in without explanation or reason. The ending phone call... what was that about? The script is so bad, and directing so confused, I'd almost consider it plagiarism. Some cool effects though.
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