Filipe Neto
This film is the sequel to "Last Exorcism" and shows Nell's life after surviving the events of the first film and being found alive. However, the past will come back to haunt the girl once more. Being a sequel, I rarely have positive expectations and, in fact, I find the first film much more original and interesting. This film adopts a more canonical record and cinematography but has little history in that screenplay. More than half of the film is the young woman trying to rebuild her life, in an excessively long preparation for supernatural events. Here is missing a story, there is no real main plot and this is the biggest flaw of the movie. The film also fails to try to scare us with the jokes provoked by sound effects. It irritates more than it scares. Blame the unfortunate and shameful Ed Gass-Donnelly, director of this misery, or Damien Chazelle, who wrote the script, probably, on a kitchen notepad. What still keeps the film minimally cohesive is the regular performance of Ashley Bell, the protagonist. Even so, she does not shines as she did in the first film because of sheer lack of material to work with.
msmchug
I don't agree with all the negative reviews. This film got going quickly. Nell was trying to get on with her life while there was a constant undertone and darkness that something still isn't right and abalam the demon is very much still there. I liked how the videos from Nell's exorcism end up on you tube and things go from bad to worse with creepy men in the shadows and enough frights to keep you glued to the seat. There were lots of good jumps and realistic effects. I ended up really rooting for Nell, and loved the ending when she turns evil... Leaving a wave of destruction in her path. Brilliant end.. Normally the demon gets expelled and hid in a box somewhere but Nell becomes abalam. Loved it all start to end.
jabandrade
The first The Last Exorcism had some attraction. Maybe because it was new, maybe the idea of camera in hands cause some tension, committed actors, motivated direction. But the small success seems that rose to the head of the producers of this 2nd movie. Apparently it was thrown on the market anyway, relying on the "charisma" of Ashley Bell, which, face it, is not enough to carry a movie. Thus, poor direction, cast idem and shallow script as a saucer resulted in a little less than lousy movie. The lack of imagination and objectives is visible all the time. No suspense, everything is predictable. The "exorcism" itself is unworthy of the worst movies of possession. And the final verged on the ridiculous, with special effects of 5th grade. The producers, please , ask God to help make the next movie.
Roland E. Zwick
"The Last Exorcism: Part II" is a run-of-the-mill tale of demonic possession whose every "thrill" is telegraphed miles in advance.Ashley Bell is a young woman who is sent to live in a home for troubled girls in New Orleans after her family is killed, probably as a result of their membership in a satanic cult (I have no idea if familiarity with the first film is helpful in understanding this one, but it probably couldn't hurt). Weird things keep happening as the forces of evil mount their assault on the most hapless, put-upon little Nell since "The Old Curiosity Shop."It's hard to tell which is more tiresome and hackneyed - the demon-possession scenario replete with oodles of exorcism rituals and Satanic mumbo-jumbo, or the employment of every horror movie staple from false scares to levitating bodies to figures skittering by in the foreground of the picture. There's very little about the movie that feels original so we're left to ponder all the better versions we've seen of the same story while ticking off the minutes till the closing credits come crawling by.