Had higher expectations

Rating: 4/10 (16 September 2019)

The first movie was all right, but this was a let down even for the already pretty low expectations I had. In essence, the sequel (and to a lesser extent the first movie) was carried mostly by the acting and some few interesting scenes. However, the ending was really bad and had some really blatant and somewhat obnoxious symbolism and moral. Also, the "scary" parts of the movie weren't actually that scary, which is the thing a horror movie is supposed to do best. I believe the CGI was supposed to look scary and give a creepy vibe, but in a significant number of scenes it just looked goofy instead, and I found myself laughing when I should have been scared or at least felt tension.
Now, for one of the major aspects of film making: sound (mixing, track, sounding, etc.), editing and cinematography. I know too little about these aspects of film making to form a valuable or well justified opinion, sorry 'bout that. One thing I will note is that the sound mixing was pretty sub par with the audio being too loud or low in certain areas.
My largest issue with this movie is the cheap scaring tactics. The over-usage of cheap jump-scares and stupid tension building methods is especially frustrating when the movie shows small glimpses of brilliance when it comes to tone and atmosphere. Some of the aspects are very well done, but they get overshadowed by the same garbage everyone's seen a million times before.