I did not care for this movie at all.
What makes it different from the first movie? What did we learn in the second movie? Nothing. The answer is nothing.
Once again, the main character is a victim, has trauma, and dies. We learn nothing new because the ER doctor who offers to help is either not real at all or is real but we didn't get to see if his idea worked or not.
If the ER doctor whose brother was a victim was not real, did the Smile demon got out of its way to learn about how long a brain can go after the heart stops before it's damaged?
It's almost like a drug movie where you don't know what's reality and what isn't. I understand that can be exciting in a movie but for this one I was just getting annoyed. Random jump scares aplenty with no substance.
At one point, when Skye is having yet another hallucination in her apartment and all of those dancers start to move toward her, I just laughed because it was simply... silly. Ooh, dancers who smile! Scary!!!
Skye isn't a perfect protagonist by any means. She is flawed and that makes her human. Nothing good happens for her in this movie.
There is some gore, and I have no problem with that. I shy away from no gore, but the gore in the movie was just for shock value and, like the repeated jump scares, held no substance in making this a scary movie.
I predicted the ending. I thought, okay, she's a big star, she's gonna infect a ton of people during a concert or something, right? And... with a microphone? Is that even possible? Death by microphone... not scary.
It's hopeless and it plays on trauma. Life is like that, I don't need to see that in a movie.
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