More is not always better

Rating: 5/10 (25 July 2019)

If the first Conjuring was a simple old-school kind of horror movie that resulted in a breath of fresh air, this second part is the opposite.
This tries to be everything the first wasn't:
If the first one didn't rely that much on jumpscares to scare you, but rather in building tension, this one has to have a loud noise every minute.
If the first one was a simple story of a house with a demon, that reached a not so dumb satisfaying climax near the end, this one has to be this grandiosity were people fly and have superpowers and can see the future and blah blah blah.
If the first one had great acting from all (except the family father), in this one the child actors have to suck.
If the first one didn't have an overlong runtime, this has to be over two hoursand twenty minutes.
You get why i'm trying to say? This movie has this aspiration to be grandiose, but it doesn't need to.
I have to recognize the film is not that bad, it has some great aspects like the cinematography, but it doesn't reach the level of the original. You can skip it, or you can watch it, but don't expect anything really good.