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Or to put it another way:Hooray, its scary!
So its a visually splendid and frightening effort, and for some that will be enough.
But the film makes a curiously shallow impact.
(There is even some dialogue that feels directly recycled from the originalConjuring.)
We wish the film would give her more to do emotionally than just be scared or angry.
All those effectively mounted scares shouldnt just make us jump but should linger and gnaw at our minds.
Maybe the lightness is intentional, though.
