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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Tolerable - Thats all that can really be said, October 5, 2008
Pulse 2 picks up where the original movie left off. IF you know where that is, you're doing better than most. Stephen, a man on the run from his ghost of an ex-wife, is searching for his daughter Justine, along with his wife. Theres also a sequel plug involving the only intelligent cast member, who learned the fine art of paper mache and dyeing to be able to walk outside without getting soul yanked. The subplot starts and ends like a phantasm, almost flitting over the surface, cameoed from a as unreleased chapter.
The movie orinigally follows Michelle, Stephens dead ex-wife. If you can't pick up on the fact that shes dead 4 minutes into the movie, the rest of it will be a rollercoaster thrill ride.
The filomography is very, very strange. I almost hazard to guess the did 5/6ths of it with CGI, painting in backgronuds for sets that they should've easily been able to get or build. Either that, or they have some new funky camera setup I've not encountered before.
The acting is the only thing that brought this up to two stars. Stephen and Michelle had decent players that could carry an otherwise bad script, and several of the sceen actors and extras were also rather good. While several scenes are odd to begin with, they make more sense once you know they're dead. There are a couple absolute dog scenes, but only one grauitous nudity scene, which, considering thats how movies like this make up their bottom line, seemed to show a suprising amount of restraint.
Special effects were nonexistant, and papered over from the original movie. There were a few half decent startles, but don't waste more than a rental fee.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Pulse 2: Afterlife........, February 17, 2009
The events of Pulse 2:Afterlife happens right after the events in the first film. The ghosts end up invading and are claiming lives like you wouldn't imagine. Survivors take shelter in remote parts of the country where wireless communication signals cannot reach. Our hero travels to a ghost-infested city to see if his daughter is still alive. He finds her but gets more than he bargains for. That's where the story begins.
Like the first movie, I didn't find too much bad about the sequel. It kept my interest til the end but, sadly, this movie was uninspired and fell flat on delivering the thrill and chills that a Japanese horror film story would. The look of the ghosts was horrible(just grease paint and actors trying to look scary), nothing like the first film. In this film, they are flickering tv images. No spooky looking ghosts here, folks. I thought we'd get treated to some good special features, at least, but all we get are commentary, two deleted scenes and a quick look at Pulse 3. After this movie, I'm not so sure I'll be returning for the third installment. We'll wait and see.
The only thing I can suggest is you rent this one. To buy? well- if it's cheap in a bargain bin somewhere....but I wouldn't pay full price for this. While it was a decent for a low budget movie, it didn't WOW me like the first one did.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Unbelievably awful, January 26, 2009
I was never really all that fond of the first Pulse film, but it did have a few redeeming qualities about it, which is much, much more than what can be said about this direct to DVD sequel. Picking up after the events of the first film, with dead spirits inhabiting and wreaking havoc upon the world, Pulse 2: Afterlife stars Battlestar Galactica's Jamie Bamber as a father searching for his missing daughter, leading into a run-in with his deceased wife who happens to be quite angry. As a direct to DVD sequel, it's safe to say that you wouldn't be expecting much, but what's here with Pulse 2 is nothing worthwhile in the very least. As noted beforehand in the above Amazon review, the awful green-screen use detracts so much from what's going on that can't help but notice it. That being said, you're not really missing much anyway, as Pulse 2 offers up terrible acting, non-sensical moments and plot holes aplenty (with some left open for Pulse 3), and even more terrible effects work. Director/producer Joel Soisson, responsible for many other needless direct to DVD sequels, is behind Pulse 2, and it further helps to qualify the man as getting closer to being a modern-day schlock-master. Avoid, even if you immensely enjoyed the first film.
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OMG! This movie set the new record of crappiest movie.
Do not buy, rent, borrow, download, steal, and watch this movie!!!
I say again, Do not buy, rent, borrow, download, steal, and watch this movie!!!
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