Disclaimer: Contains spoilers!
Plot Summary: After awaking from a coma, and returning from war, a man attempts to get back to a normal life but is haunted by ghosts.
Review: As far as unnecessary sequels go, this surprisingly wasn't too bad. In fact, it started off with some decent ideas and scares. Unfortunately, the story goes off the rails in the last 15-20 minutes or so with a moronic final twist and lackluster resolution. I was almost about to forgive that nonsense, however, the deciding factor of lowering the score came down to the downright disrespectful representation of the previous entry. Whoever had the idea to include the son from part 1, Jake, and make him a nutcase (with no mention of his parents), needs to get beat! Didn't even have the decency to get the original actor either. Terrible.
This time around we follow Rob Lowe as the main character, Ted. Teddy's story is that he's traumatized after the war in Iraq and can't forgive himself for accidentally killing some family and this little girl who got blown up. I'm really surprised they had the balls to actually show the little girl getting blown up too. Bonus point...? Too fucked up? Oh well. Anyway, this same blast that killed the little girl put Ted in a coma, and, when he awakes, he can now see ghosts. The scares are a bit cliched and predictable, but they're effective nonetheless. I was more annoyed with Ted's insufferable fucking wife than any kind of predictability. This bitch is too fugly to deserve Rob Lowe, and it was extremely satisfying that they had sense enough to kill her off. Fuck the ghosts, I would have killed her just for all the trash talking she does. As for Jake's cameo...he's just there to look crazy in one scene and explain to Ted that he needs to drink orange juice and do whatever the ghost wants him to do. Now, the film does make you believe the ghosts haunting Ted are that family from Iraq, but, we come to learn, it's actually just one guy who Ted's son killed and wants revenge. The ghost family is just there as a red herring or maybe they're hallucinations created by guilt? It's up in the air. As to the real ghost, it wants to control Ted to kill his own son, but, instead, he, thankfully, kills the dumb wife and gets his son arrested. The film closes out with Teddy suddenly in some hospital, or whatever, still seeing that fugly bitch wife but no final zinger mercifully. Ahh...happy endings. Though, that moronic song made up for the movie keeps playing over the credits! Argh.
I don't know what I was expecting from this movie. It has its moments, and is pretty good up to a certain point, but it's hollow somehow--like, it lacks any kind of heart in the film making; it's hard to explain. The production does look cheap, but the actors do try to take the material seriously which helped a lot. I suppose the biggest fault is that this entry feels completely unrelated to the first movie. That bullshit cameo from Jake was meaningless and could have already been in the script and merely tweaked to create a link between both stories. If this were on TV one day, I'd say maybe check it out if you're bored, but don't waste your time seeking it out unless you love Rob Lowe.
Notable Moment: When Ted hugs some random little girl thinking she was the one ghost. I don't know if everyone on set seemed to understand the comedic implications of this scene especially given the wannabe creepy music. It's even funnier because the girl seemed to like it...well...who wouldn't want Rob Lowe for a dad?!
Final Rating: 5/10
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