I haven't seen the first one, & I don't plan to (yet). But this film is just laughable. From the acting, to the whole realistic Boogeyman concept.
As I always say, "Anything that goes from fictional to realistic, will turn out like shit" - and this movie is… More
I haven't seen the first one, & I don't plan to (yet). But this film is just laughable. From the acting, to the whole realistic Boogeyman concept.
As I always say, "Anything that goes from fictional to realistic, will turn out like shit" - and this movie is another perfect example. So the whole concept of a man who knows everyone's fears & then later one someone goes killing them all using their own fear against them sounds neat, but it it's in fact horribly done.
The cameras don't seem to stand still, there are a large amount of plot holes, & the majority of the characters are just stupid (literally).
THE FOLLOWING REVIEW CONTAINS SOME SPOILERS (but who cares)
Characters: The characters in here are all either stupid or plain out useless or both. The main character has little personality, & then seems to lose her fear after a few seconds even when she's being chased or when she knows when she's in danger. Such as the scene where she locks herself in a room after seeing a horrible, gruesome scene of one of the patient's death, after a few minutes, the horror she witnessed suddenly vanishes. After the whole mental institute (or the last 3 remaining of them lock themselves inside their rooms) she suddenly decides to show a "Fuck, finally I'm alone," expression, & listens to her MP3 player like nothing had or is going to happen.
Then there is Johnny Simmon's character, an entomophobic[?] neat freak who is stupid enough to actually drink a bottle of CLEANING SOLUTION after the VILLAIN hands it directly to him, which later on burns a whole in his throat, resultin in his [probably painful] death. The guy did this after eating [Madagascar hissing] cockroach that was in his bag of potato chips. Can anyone get any stupider?
Then we have a character who also happens to be an entomphobic (or is just afraid of maggots) named Alison (played by Mae Whitnam). Her character suddenly dies after the 'Boogeyman' places maggots on her arms, which then literally crawl into her skin, but she can do nothing about it due to her being tied up on a bed. But wait, there is a knife by her, so she reached for it, cuts off pieces of her flesh where the maggots crawled into, thus resulting her her death of shock & bleeding. But wait, she could have used that knife to cuts herself free, oh but wait! She was tied, how did she manage to release her arms to get the knife, but release herself or drop the maggots? Talk about stupid!
Then we have Dr. Ryan, one of the workers of the mental hospital, who decides to head into the basement, & look for another worker who hadn't come back yet. She finds Gloria (the worker) dead, & gives a small 'omg' expression, & then see the Boogeyman across from her holding a giant electrical chord, & also notices herself standing on a puddle of water. Does she run? No! She just stays staring at the guy with her terrible acting as he watches her for a few more seconds, & then drops the chord, & shocks her. She couldn't even scream as the horrible shaking [which was intended] made it laughable.
Then we have the two idiotic lovers, Darren & Nicky. Woo we get no background information on them or their relationship. But we do get a sex scene of the two, & boy what a bad one it is. Then the two get into some illogical, random fight, & Darren throws Nicky out of his room. He later dies in his room by the Boogeyman when his heart gets torn out of him. How did that happen? Lets see, Darren punched his mirror after the fight, & left the room for a few minutes (just enough for anyone, even the villain, sneak in) to get teh first aid kit (which also makes you wonder why don't any of the rooms carry any of those), & then walks back into his room, where the Boogeyman is waiting in a small, semi-dark corner of his room.
Nicki later dies herself from being filled up with some sort of fat/bile with tubes attached to alost every part of her body. She bursts because of it. It was not a pretty scene.
Then we get Tobin Bell's character, the patients' doctor. He has the same face throughout the whole movie (as he does in all of his Saw movie appearances), & little personality.
Cast & Acting: The acting this movie was HORRIBLE, & all the actors in here were nothing but no-names (except for Tobin Bell. But who hasn't heard of that guy?).
Story/Plot: It makes little to no sense, & it carries many plot holes. Such as how the hell did the Boogeyman get a hold of Alison when she was supposed to be with someone else in the same room? The movie's ending was just terrible (but pretty well written). Oh, & it is also VERY predictable.
Effects: There is a lot of gore in this movie, A LOT of gore. Probably the only thing this movie did right.
Dialogue: It's corny, very corny. Enough said.
Final summation, this film is horrible, just plain out horrible. It's not bad enough to be good, it's just bad.
