nickryan99

If you are going into this movie just to have a good time and turn your brain off then you'll enjoy this film. However, as someone who became obsessed with the Final Destination franchise nearly 2 decades ago after watching the choose your own fate edition of Final Destination 3 with the tanning bed scene permanently seared into my brain, I'm a bit more harsh.

Cons:

• The CGI blood and kills. Nothing takes me out of a scene more than dark red cartoon blood. With a film that is built PRIMARILY on deaths it should be quite limited on the usage of CGI. We've seen great use of practical effects which is why this feels like such wasted potential. The biggest reason these movies work is because no matter how ridiculous the set up is the death still feels real (4th sequel excluded). It doesn't have the same effect if the person dying sudden looks like an animated character.

• This might be the most useless protagonist since the 4th installment. The main character might be the blandest character in the whole movie, and she has some tough competition because only 3 people stand out in this movie. I can forgive throw away characters if the deaths are memorable but both are lacking here.

• There have been rumors that there were reshoots and I believe them because the final act has some pacing issues and ends somewhat abruptly.

Pros:

• I will say that this film had the 2nd best opening scene/disaster behind the pile up.

• Tony Todd's goodbye was moving and possibly the best dialogue he has given in the franchise.

• The hospital death scene involving an MRI machine has a great build up of suspense and emotion and is up there with other iconic final destination death scenes.

• While there is more cons then pros for me I still had a good time and still fun to see in theaters. While some FD sequels miss the mark there is always another sequel that can surpass it. Can't wait for the next sequels!!

After a consistent let down of various sequels, many of which being horror movies, Smile 2 feels like a needle in a haystack. So many sequels, reboots, and horror movies that just miss the mark but when the trailer for this movie was released I was intrigued. This first movie was pretty good so I decided to check this one out and it exceeded my expectations.

I didn't love the first movie because I didn't connect to the performance of the lead actor as much, however, the lead in this film was excellent!! I am a horror fan so I tend to be hard on these films and I truly enjoyed this film. This film is more fun, more shocking, and more gruesome than the 1st. It is definitely worth a watch.

I quite enjoy this franchise including this entry. However, my biggest complaint with all of them this one in particular is that while the acting is always great the plot is lackluster. In a film that is 95% whispers or no talking at all extra tension, extra character development, and extra fleshed out story is necessary to make up for the lack of verbal communication. I don't necessarily need a long spoken monologue but something throughout the movie that grabs our attention as audience members.

With this potentially being the final movie in a trilogy and a prequel we needed something fresh. These movies have the exact same formula, the protagonist is introduced with minimal backstory the monsters attack, the protagonist and their counterpart run around in different area trying to be quite and then someone dies. We don't need the exact some formula for every movie. They could've at least explained or theorized how these monsters arrived or introduced some new element we've never seen before. I was actually confused at the end because it felt like we were just entering act 2 when Lupita started wondering the streets of New York freely and then it cut to the credits and I felt like I had missed something. This is basically Quite Place 1 with two new characters and a cat. Not bad at all but nothing special.