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Insidious: Chapter 2 is decidedly short on the tension and surprises that made its predecessor so chilling.
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Most of [Wan's] peers shoot a bunch of scenes and let the editor make a smoothie. Wan no longer relies on visual gibberish. He has become a classicist in that sense. Oct 4, 2013 | Full Review…
Most of [Wan's] peers shoot a bunch of scenes and let the editor make a smoothie. Wan no longer relies on visual gibberish. He has become a classicist in that sense.
Wesley Morris
Characters in Whannell/Wan screenplays speak with the first-draft expository bluntness of a cheap '50s thriller, letting the characters step on some of the best reveals. Sep 17, 2013 | Rating: C+ | Full Review…
Characters in Whannell/Wan screenplays speak with the first-draft expository bluntness of a cheap '50s thriller, letting the characters step on some of the best reveals.
Jesse Hassenger
Insidious: Chapter 2 is a puzzle movie with too many unnecessary pieces and not enough essential ones, but it's superior to its predecessor in a few basic ways. Sep 13, 2013 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
Insidious: Chapter 2 is a puzzle movie with too many unnecessary pieces and not enough essential ones, but it's superior to its predecessor in a few basic ways.
Simon Abrams
Though there's some admirably clever plotting to interweave the film's second half with events in the original, it's simply not as scary. Sep 13, 2013 | Rating: 5/10 | Full Review…
Though there's some admirably clever plotting to interweave the film's second half with events in the original, it's simply not as scary.
Ian Buckwalter
Insidious: Chapter 2 is not only unnecessary but it commits the cardinal sin of devaluing its predecessor. Sep 13, 2013 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
Insidious: Chapter 2 is not only unnecessary but it commits the cardinal sin of devaluing its predecessor.
James Berardinelli
An increasing amount of metaphysical backtracking dilutes the few simple jolts that do work this time around. Sep 13, 2013 | Full Review…
An increasing amount of metaphysical backtracking dilutes the few simple jolts that do work this time around.
William Goss
Insidious: Chapter 2 is an insidious delight. Nov 26, 2019 | Full Review…
Insidious: Chapter 2 is an insidious delight.
Debbie Lynn Elias
Submits to the tired trappings of sequelitis, attempting to fill in too many holes, relate too many backstories, and remind us of too many references to the first film to properly focus on delivering the same caliber of effective scares. Aug 28, 2019 | Full Review…
Submits to the tired trappings of sequelitis, attempting to fill in too many holes, relate too many backstories, and remind us of too many references to the first film to properly focus on delivering the same caliber of effective scares.
Nicholas Bell
The high moral seriousness of the central conceit in both Insidious films -- that of a haunted child -- undoubtedly deserves more delicate touches and more sobering scares. Mar 1, 2019 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
The high moral seriousness of the central conceit in both Insidious films -- that of a haunted child -- undoubtedly deserves more delicate touches and more sobering scares.
Chris Fennell
It's unfortunate that the director who gave us one of the best horror films of the year with The Conjuring is the same guy delivering the terribly underwhelming Insidious Chapter 2 less than two months later. Feb 19, 2019 | Rating: 4/10 | Full Review…
It's unfortunate that the director who gave us one of the best horror films of the year with The Conjuring is the same guy delivering the terribly underwhelming Insidious Chapter 2 less than two months later.
Britt Hayes
Insidious: Chapter 2 isn't as honestly terrifying as the original, but it rates as okay horror fun. Jan 24, 2019 | Rating: B- | Full Review…
Insidious: Chapter 2 isn't as honestly terrifying as the original, but it rates as okay horror fun.
Abbie Bernstein
Not as good as the first film in the franchise, but it does a good enough job in continuing the spooky narrative. Dec 13, 2018 | Full Review…
Not as good as the first film in the franchise, but it does a good enough job in continuing the spooky narrative.
Chauncey K. Robinson
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