I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

Goth chick calls up Anubis. Deaths follow.I had read an article on the making of the movie and was curious to see the end result so I rented it. Beneath a pretty cool DVD cover lies this movie and it's, unfortunately, not very good. While I can give props to the monster make up and some of the shots of the moon, the rest of it is uniformly amateurish. Everything from the acting to the writing, camera-work and directing is atrocious. Whole sections of dialog are delivered by characters who should be running for their lives instead of standing, yes standing, and arguing for long minutes at a time. My guess is that a running time had to be filled, but more likely it's because characters have to say things in situations like this, no matter how obvious or inane. The weird thing, though, is that as I was watching the over the top acting (Goth chick I'm talking to you especially), I couldn't help but think this would've worked had the director just thought out of the box a bit and conceived the whole thing as a silent film. Yes, a silent film. Of course distribution would have been a problem, but at least it may have worked as a film.Unless your a film student there is no reason to rent this.But if you are a future filmmaker then rent it with an eye on how not to make a horror film. Scorcese once said something to the effect of watching bad movies in order to learn how to make good ones. This would be one of them.

This movie is pathetic. With that out of the way, I'll continue on to explain why. After about fifteen minutes of watching this movie, the only thing I wanted to do was punch that stupid goth girl in the face. Some of the scenes where she describes her plot drag on, and on, and on. Had there been fewer of these character exposition scenes, or had they been shorter and more dispersed, I might not be as upset with them. The goth girl just had this way of speaking that was excruciatingly repetitive, and made her very hard to listen to for more than two minutes at a time. The movie introduces many characters and gives them varying amounts of lines, only to have them die or leave within minutes, making me really wonder why they were included to begin with. The only worthwhile moment in this entire film is when it makes reference to a movie called "666 Demon Child," which is perhaps the only movie I have ever seen that is worse than this filth. All of this leads me to the final point, Anubis. HE IS THE MOST PATHETIC MONSTER I HAVE EVER SEEN. Now, I have seen zombies move faster, hit harder, and be more frightening than this pathetic fop. Anubis is supposed to be a god made flesh, but he ends up acting more like a middle aged man, unable to do much of anything unless his victims are standing still or making a pathetic attempt at fighting back. He has the trademark sickle, which thankfully he makes good use of occasionally, but he is beaten back by a teenage boy wielding a rock. A rock beats an Egyptian god. He runs like a drunk and while he withstands being chopped with a machete, the rock frightens him into retreating. Perhaps it was blessed. Or, perhaps this movie is a giant crock of festering crap. There is nothing I enjoy more than a low budget movie that makes me laugh. This movie makes me cry.

I saw this film at its premiere and thoroughly enjoyed every minute. Being present at the premiere I was privy to the film's extremely low budget (No, even lower than that. Nope, keep going). People have become so "Hollywoodized" when it comes to blockbusters that when they see a movie with a micro-minuscule budget they automatically think it's crap. These people aren't giving director D.W. Kann the credit he very much deserves. In fact, they are doing him a great disservice. This is one director who was able to pull off a damn funny, well executed, horror movie. I laughed out loud, as did the entire audience, as well as jumped out of my seat. That seems quite a feat to me. "Ancient Evil 2" (not a sequel and originally titled "Anubis: Rising"-blame the distributors)is quite literally low-budget genius. The story is simple but what it lacks in a serpentine plot, it makes up with heart and gumption. The two leads are a pleasure to watch. New-comers Christopher Kann (Paul) and Victoria Campbell (Jen), while a bit green around the gills, worked wonderfully together. Paul had dead-on comedic timing and his facial expressions were beyond hysterical. He's one to pay attention to. Jen may want to make you spoon your eyes out at first but she grows on you. The creature was well done and you actually forget that you are watching some dude shoe-horned into a suit. There is some minor incongruity between the dialogue (who needs profanity with lines like, "Who you calling 'hick,' slapnuts?") and the killings which definitely are not cut away from but it's endearing opposed to distracting. The music is catchy, the editing is creative and clever, and the acting is above par. This is a campy movie, and anyone who doesn't get that needs to have their head examined. But most importantly, director D.W Kann never took himself or the film too seriously and there-in lies the genius of it.

It says 4 persons of first 10 voters actually voted for 10/10, unbelievable! It's like those Korean voters, always voted Korean movies the top scores in IMDb, no matter how bad the show it was --- same crap they did in last world cup (soccer). Here is an idea, never trust the IMDb voting score, if the show is Korean.On the top of this cheating in vote, the whole show is lousy, it could reach no more than 3/10 amongst most of the audience. So, to bring back the balance, I did as what the other did, voted 1/10 only.Another thing, the plot says the kids unleashed the ancient Egyptian God Anubis in New England, this is the same lousy idea like that one in Constaintine --- a bum discovered the Spear of Destiny in Mexico. Oh, my, why all these Relic of the old continent (Mideast and Africa) all had traveled to Amercia? for the convenience of lousy Hollywod screenplay? or is that because of the fact that the America is the really damned soil, deserving all the evil in the world residing on it?