I'm always happy to ignore reviews. Unhappy people are likeliest to squawk, and many seem to enjoy tearing down the works of others. So I wasn't deterred by the bad "buzz" over this movie.
After all, the first movie was one of the tensest, scariest movies I'd ever watched, and the mounting tension as more and more about the Creeper is revealed was scary fun. The performances were also note-perfect.
But by contrast this movie, from the start, felt tired and empty and thrown-together. Good camera-work and music were wasted on a plot and acting that were very sub-par. All the LEOs seemed like lost idiots, not professionals; the writing was lazy and overbroad, the performances were repeatedly cartoonish and off-putting.
The script really does feel like very little thought was put into it, and no feedback sought nor accepted. I mean, seriously - a country boy tinkers together a high-caliber gattling gun, and NEVER ONCE tries it out? NEVER ONCE shreds a target, or a tree, or a cow?
Then finally comes the big reveal, as the Creeper finds a sign saying "We know what you are." He raises his head to the heavens and screams...
...and absolutely nothing comes of it.
I wanted to like it, but I just couldn't. Disappointingly disappointing.
Oh, if there's a four, particularly with Gina Phillips back, I'll watch it. But the movies so far are ordered correctly: 1 is the best, 2 is less so, and 3 a very, very distant third.
After all, the first movie was one of the tensest, scariest movies I'd ever watched, and the mounting tension as more and more about the Creeper is revealed was scary fun. The performances were also note-perfect.
But by contrast this movie, from the start, felt tired and empty and thrown-together. Good camera-work and music were wasted on a plot and acting that were very sub-par. All the LEOs seemed like lost idiots, not professionals; the writing was lazy and overbroad, the performances were repeatedly cartoonish and off-putting.
The script really does feel like very little thought was put into it, and no feedback sought nor accepted. I mean, seriously - a country boy tinkers together a high-caliber gattling gun, and NEVER ONCE tries it out? NEVER ONCE shreds a target, or a tree, or a cow?
Then finally comes the big reveal, as the Creeper finds a sign saying "We know what you are." He raises his head to the heavens and screams...
...and absolutely nothing comes of it.
I wanted to like it, but I just couldn't. Disappointingly disappointing.
Oh, if there's a four, particularly with Gina Phillips back, I'll watch it. But the movies so far are ordered correctly: 1 is the best, 2 is less so, and 3 a very, very distant third.