noawareness

Cheap, no story, bad scrips, poorly acted.

I can only imagine that, if you are giving this a high score, you've never really seen a good Korean or Japanese horror/thriller. What is interesting about this bloated mess? The story is about as deep as a very cheap paddling pool and the script feels like it was written by someone who just got banned from Reddit and threatened legal action.

The story could have been told in 15 minutes on a very very low budget.

It's not good. In fact. It's bad. I found it hard to reach the end and after watching it all, I wish I hadn't. Frustrating and boring.

Avoid. If you can read, watch a good foreign body horror film that isn't just full of political trash.

I suspect a lot of the extremely high review scores for this are buzzing off some kind of hype because this is very far from a 9 or 10/10 film. Id argue that, as good as the original was, it was probably still only a 7 (potentially 8) out of 10. It was well paced, the story made sense, it wasnt too long and the acting was realistic and subtle.

This one though... Its like they forgot what was good about the first one and felt they needed to change too much. Affleck seems to have forgotten how to play the character, changing him from a quiet, reserved and focussed (but socially aware) autistic man, to a bumbling clown with a silly voice.

Jon Bernthal's character was good, until he became "crazy tough guy"

Almost every other character was forgettable and felt like they were just there to move the story from beat to beat.

This film was a mess in almost every sense of the word. I was really looking forward to it as I really do like the original.

The title character is far too different in this one for me to take it seriously as a sequel.