The movie kicks off where the original ended and the film starts with a horribly infected and decaying Paul waking up after lying in the stream. He wanders off only to get hit by a school bus. It seems like a phony selling point and gimmick because beyond this, Deputy Winston, and the Water truck, there are no real connections to the first film, but it works well enough to stitch the films together.
The film's obvious failing is the actual final cut of the film. Ti West walked away from the film only for lionsgate to recut his footage and cap on a jarringly out of place ending that fits so awkwardly into the film. The editing is poor and fairly sloppy in places and the pacing is passable but inconsistent. It begins quite well and it isn't until the last half hour where the quality really started to decline tremendously, reshot ending or not. This is a real shame because the footage that West shot looks great.
In terms of the gore, the movie holds nothing back and displays some ultra vile material. I can usually handle super gory movies but parts of this were too much and I feel like they could have done without some of them.
Despite all of its faults, it's still a fairly entertaining and enjoyable horror-romp. It's got a great soundtrack, excellent leads and a great premise.It's still a shame that we can't see what West had originally intended the film to look like.
The film's obvious failing is the actual final cut of the film. Ti West walked away from the film only for lionsgate to recut his footage and cap on a jarringly out of place ending that fits so awkwardly into the film. The editing is poor and fairly sloppy in places and the pacing is passable but inconsistent. It begins quite well and it isn't until the last half hour where the quality really started to decline tremendously, reshot ending or not. This is a real shame because the footage that West shot looks great.
In terms of the gore, the movie holds nothing back and displays some ultra vile material. I can usually handle super gory movies but parts of this were too much and I feel like they could have done without some of them.
Despite all of its faults, it's still a fairly entertaining and enjoyable horror-romp. It's got a great soundtrack, excellent leads and a great premise.It's still a shame that we can't see what West had originally intended the film to look like.