The Age of Commercialism

Such a frustrating disappointment

Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

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.

Not sure why this movie evoked so many negative reviews. A sequel always has more potential if it tells the next chapter in a story, rather than repeating the same story again. THE LAST EXORCISM II does that, following Nell Sweetzer on her journey from the farm to the big city, and how the demons still haunt her and want to possess her permanently.Make no mistake about it, this is an Ashley Bell movie. Her amazing physical dexterity shown in the first movie is used again in this movie, along with a greater range of emotions than just sweet and innocent turning into demonic rage. And the vehicle that the script uses to further the attempt at her possession is a sexual one, rather than a violent one. Fortunately, the movie chooses to be suggestive rather than gratuitous, and could have easily fallen off the slippery slope of being too overtly sexual. What didn't work in expanding Nell's character in this way is that she is supposed to be 17, yet she and the other girls living in the halfway house all look to be in their mid 20's, far past the time when schoolgirl crushes and giggly behavior look plausible.The title of this movie is a bit misleading, as only a small portion of it is dedicated to exorcising her demons, and that section is too quickly glossed over. And the man leading the exorcism transitions from supremely confident to frightened and incapable as if his character's placement in the movie was an afterthought.The ending shows Nell overtaken by her demon, paving the way for a third installment, rather than proclaiming some sort of victory or redemption. Kind of a letdown, but not nearly as much as the ending of the first movie.

Okay, I try to do a little more than just blatantly slag off a film, but with 'The Last Exorcism Part II' it's kind of hard not to.I didn't expect to enjoy the first film and, amazingly, I was in for a pleasant surprise. It may have been a 'found footage' film, but it was enjoyably creepy, despite being an overused genre about an overused subject matter.Therefore, based on the first movie alone, I decided to watch the sequel. I really wish I hadn't. It's a completely different type of film for a start, i.e. not 'found footage.' I guess the film-makers wanted not to just do a rehash of the first movie and try something different. What they came up with was simply one of the more boring films ever made.We follow the girl from the first story, now trying to lead a normal life. But she can't. The spirit she fought before wants to be in her again. Things bump around wherever she goes, therefore, in turn, making her jump. That's about it. She has a gaggle of female friends who do little more than giggle and make clichéd remarks. Plus there's a love interest for out main lead. It adds nothing to the plot, other than detracting yet further from anything vaguely scary.The Last Exorcism (part one) was nothing that special, but at least it was watchable enough to be enjoyable (if you like low budget horror flicks). Part II, on the other hand, is just dull with no redeeming features.Maybe I should have known better than to watch a sequel to a film with the word 'last' in the title. Dear film-makers, PLEASE make part II the absolute last this time. I won't be watching 'The Last Last Last Exorcism' if it ever sees the light of day.http://thewrongtreemoviereviews.blogspot.co.uk/

Nell Sweetzer (Ashley Bell) is trying to recover from the events of the first movie. She is sent to a safe house in New Orleans with other girls trying to restart their lives. She is an innocent, and still haunted by the demon Abalam. She gets a hotel housekeeping job, and even a boyfriend Chris. But she can't escape Abalam, and mysterious Cecile may be able to exorcise the demon once and for all.The original had the benefit of an indie realism. That is to say that it pretends to be real like 'Blair Witch Project'. It also had Ashley Bell bending over backwards in a (is she?)/(isn't she?) story. This one is much more traditional. Ashley Bell is quite effective as the naive Nell. The movie has a slow moving gentle feel. But when the time comes to pump up the scares, they pull all the punches. The kills are happening off screen. The traditional camera moves just aren't there. If Ashley Bell wasn't there, I would definitely fail this movie.