I think it fell short of it's target.

Rating: 5/10 (30 November 2019)

I have read the book (twice) and seen the original mini series.
I watched part one and quite enjoyed it. There is little - if anything on the big screen, that scares me these days, part one being no exception.
If it's possible, part 2 was less scary, and I found myself quite bored after a fashion and ended up skipping forward a lot.
Someone watching for the first time, having seen part 1 but not read the book or seen the first mini series, might get a jump or two out of it.
I found it to be lacking in tension and consequently far too long.There were attempts at building the tension although there was too much "other stuff" happening which kept letting it slack off.
It could have done with a shave, about an hour might have done it. This isn't a book where one's imagination can run wild, it's a movie. Bearing this fact in mind, the job of the director is to tell a story as concisely as possible and not drag it out.
3 hours was overly long in my humble opinion.