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It would have actually been good IF ( Spoilers)


Just watched it , My Expectations were probably a lot higher than they should have been b/c of the Directors & cast members . I actually thought it started off pretty good and had a great pace , the characters were all pretty likable ( Danielle Harris , Kaj Eriksen , and Chelan Simmons in particular ) and the setting was cool , HOWEVER the chase scenes got repetitive really fast ( running in a maze of dark halls ) and the KILLS severely lacked gore / creativity .

There were some really great set ups with Chelan's character when she get's lost , The Scene with two pairs of characters on each side of the glass wall could have been more suspenseful ( although I was genuinely surprised when Katherine Isabelle died in that situation , Best kill in the movie IMO ) I did like the twist that it was a Final Guy instead of girl but I really liked Danielle's character & it sucked to see her die on her Bday , I liked that she wasn't so tough and a lot more vulnerable this time as opposed to being the tough chick.

If The Kills were more creative and the chase scenes more planned out / suspenseful it would have been as good as the first IMO

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Pretty much exactly how I felt.

First one wasn't great but the deaths were cool. This one lacked that severely.

This one had an amazing cast but they had nothing to work with.

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I think the problems go deeper than just the repetitiveness of the chase scenes and the lack of creativity in the kills. It's just a generally bad script that lacks any sense of logic and creativity. It says something when the fact that Danielle Harris is the penultimate death rather than the final one is being held up as one of the few good things about the film - it's people saying "Oh, I couldn't predict the exact order that the characters got killed, that's clever."

It doesn't help that a lot of the action seemed to take place down very similar (or possibly the same) featureless corridors, but there needed to be a better way of linking the set-pieces together than just another "running down corridors" scene. The morgue seems to go on forever and Jacob Goodnight seems to be anywhere the script requires him to be and to somehow have blocked off all the exits even though the people running away from him are ahead of him. The inescapable nature of the setting, the way all their mobile phones are left upstairs and no attempt is made to retrieve them, the teleportation and invincibility of Jacob Goodnight, all these are obvious contrivances and serious lapses of logic in the script that prevented me from caring what happened as the story was so obviously artificial and fake.

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Agreed , I appreciate it's efforts to go against the grain even if it was for the sake of just being different / shocking.

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The final guy is, well... the final guy. Last man standing, survive or not. Though his death was pretty cheap and unnecessary.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2BKWx_0qK0

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exactly , He was the FINAL victim and he's a guy so therefore he's the Final Guy lol

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Basically this. The death was annoying and cheapened the final guy aspect, but he was a final guy

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