Not a good movie, but much better than the first one

Rating: 5/10 (19 October 2006)

I saw this movie thinking it was going to be as crappy as the first one (obviously I'm no fan of the original) and I actually enjoyed it a little bit. I thought that Donnie Wahlberg did a really good job. He was the best actor in the film. I'm a little biased though, since I haven't seen Donnie Wahlberg role that I didn't like. I also thought that Shawnee Smith and Tobin Bell did very well. I didn't really like some of the characters but their performances were lifted thanks to the first three I mentioned. While I disliked the first one because of it's total unbelievability and unoriginality ("borrowed" heavily from SEVEN and CUBE) and terrible performances by all of the leads, with the exception of Tobin Bell. I don't really like giving away too much of the movie, so I'll just say that it was a decent and enjoyable movie when compared with the original, but that's not saying much. Overall, it was okay. a decent rental on a bored night, but other than that, not much. I much prefer the movies it lifted from (SEVEN, CUBE).