170 minutes long movie, filled with bunch of supposed to be scary hallucinations

Rating: 5/10 (9 September 2019)

IT Chapter 2 was in my top 5 most anticipated movies of 2019 list. I guess it's impossible for movies nowadays to live up to the expectations unless their thinking mind includes Kevin Feige.
I would have liked this movie a lot more, if it was 30-40 minutes shorter. I get it though, that team behind this movie wants to keep as much as possible from the book, but movie is just too long for audience keep the interest alive for already weakly built characters. I went into the movie without knowing the runtime, so after 2 hours I realised movie is still not close to ending, I opened my IMDB app and checked out the runtime for "it" (no pun intended), and it was 2 hours and 49 minutes. And it's not like a lot of different things happens in movie, most of the time, kids or adults are alone somewhere and then they start see some crazy monster which scares and then they run away.
The movie is clearly divided into 3 acts, even Mike spells it out for us during the last act, first where group re-unites, second where they split up and third where they reunite, again, to kill the Pennywise. And seriously I've no idea what that second act was. Like finding artefacts, which were random items from their childhood, seriously I mean how they even knew what was their artefact. I actually loved how the movie started, they give little bit of arc to each adult character and then when they meet supposedly for the first time in 27 years, chemistry was there. And credit goes to these amazing actors. They really were the MVPs of this movie. Sadly, movie just becomes weaker and weaker after that and during the last half an hour, I literally closed my eyes and waited for movie to end. And those last 10 minutes, where they were monologuing in slow motion felt like longest time of my life.
I know I'm being harsh, but that's how it felt. Though movie has its plus too. The cast is really fantastic. Special effects (and there are many of those) are really done well. One scary scene really got me where Beverly went to her old home (if you've seen the movie, you know which one I'm talking about). There are many jump scares too.
Overall this movie didn't live up to my expectations and that's mostly because of pacing and runtime.