The Grudge 2 Critic Reviews

Once again, we're treated to loosely aligned scenes of half-formed characters getting a faceful of director Takashi Shimizu's croaking, implacable, and, yes, still scary housewife-geist.Read the full review

There are fun distractions, but it's easy to focus on the flaws.Read the full review

While the film deserves some credit for creating and sustaining a creepy atmosphere, it doesn't matter much when the plot doesn't go anywhere, and here, it winds toward the most arbitrary, nonsensical final scene in recent memory. But, hey, they're ghosts. They can do some pretty crazy shit.Read the full review

Story is incidental here, as auds merely anticipate the scares.Read the full review

This is not the cool, eerie déjà vu, but the "Hey, isn't that exactly what happened in the first movie?" déjà vu.Read the full review

A movie so bewildering and impenetrable that I believe it siphoned off a good 40 IQ points.Read the full review

Puberty causes an exponential increase in evil -- and in incoherence -- in The Grudge 2.Read the full review