As Good as the Original

Rating: 8/10 (21 July 2014)

So the 100% James wan record continues. Till now I have not disliked a single film of his(well the ones that he directed, so the saw sequels don't count). Only one film of his is left - Death sentence. Which strangely I am not very interested in watching.
Similar to the Conjuring, this movie made me freak out a little bit and I couldn't continue after 50 mins. But then I resumed after some time and I completed the movie.
The 2 movies are quite similar(Insidious and Chapter 2). The first half is absolutely intense and the scares are incredible. And then the second half goes in too deep into "the further" and then it becomes less scary and more over the top. So the impact is less in the second half. Here, in fact, the pace is even slower because they want to explain many things that happened in the first film.
I actually liked that because there is so much attention to detail and the writing is pretty good. But yeah the intensity is lesser in the second half in both films, so they don't attain perfection(unlike say, Conjuring). The motive and backstory is maybe not very original and has been rehashed in plenty of films. But the way everything comes together is interesting to watch.
I loved it
8/10