It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

"The Mangler 2" is a decent, if slightly more enjoyable sequel to the original.**SPOILERS**As a form of punishment, troubled teen Jo Newton, (Chelse Swain) is sent to Royal Collegiate College, where Headmaster Bradeen, (Lance Henriksen) introduces a special high-tech campus-wide security system, to the disdain of Dan Channa, (Will Sanderson) Emily Stone, (Daniela Evangelista) Will Walsh, (Dexter Bell) and Corey Banks, (Miles Meadows) her friends and fellow students. After they're all unjustly accused of a computer prank, she decides to get even by unleashing the Mangler computer virus on the school's security system. Spending time partying on the abandoned campus, they slowly realize that the virus is using the security system to kill them off, and try to stop the new being from killing them all.The Good News: This one wasn't that bad, and actually had some good stuff to it at times. The fact that the stalking at the end of the film, with the usual amount of action and suspense, is the best part of the film. This one ends on a really high-note, getting in a whole lot of good stuff into a short amount of time. There's the really fun way of getting around the security cameras, that leads to some nice suspense as the plan is put into action and carried out nicely, there's a fun way of going through it and it's really fun. The chases through the campus, complete with the split-screen images of the computer looking after them, which is a pretty nice idea and is done throughout the whole parts is where it really counts and feels really good. These here are fully used throughout, from them inside the pool to the kitchen sequences to the office work and the incredible sequence inside the darkened theater done through the night-vision so much more, all to make the one idea work. All of their attempts to rectify it and get around it to make the scenes work. All of them are pretty much fun as well, and because they include the really nice and enjoyable kills as well. There's a decapitation with garden shears, a rope wrapped around the neck and lynched, a crushing with the bleachers, pulled into a washing machine by the hair, a couple of electrocutions and a rather gory melting from boiling water, among more. These here are the best things about the film.The Bad News: This one here only had a few minor problems to it. The first half of the film, which mainly consists of them running around goofing around campus for pretty much everything that happens is pretty much the main thing that occurs and isn't all that much fun. Nothing of interest occurs during these times, as it's all pretty much the same things over and over again, from the jokes to the flirting and the complaining about the situation to the staff conversing about the new machine and all it does, and none of this is all that exciting or even interesting. It makes for a hard time getting into the film and it really suffers because of this. The only other thing that really hurts this one is that, as brutal and fun as the kills are, none of them are graphic. Either in the form that they occur in, by design or just through sheer inability to see what's exactly going on, this one here is really dry and doesn't really do a lot to fix it, which wouldn't have been that hard. These, though, are the film's few problems.The Final Verdict: A little better than the original, which isn't really saying much as there wasn't a whole lot to this one either. Give it a shot if you're into the genre, find the first one enjoyable or feel you won't find this one too offensive, otherwise then just stick to others out there more complete and worthwhile.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Language and drug use

This movie only scored 1.6 out of ten. which makes it in the bottom ten movies ever in IMDb's rating. for some reason this fact is not recorded on IMDb's worst 100 movies list. perhaps someone knows why this is. In any event it was truly an excellent movie, in my opinion and should have come in the top ten movies of all time. There are a few goof in the movie though. there biggest one being that the opening credits were not immediately followed by the closing credits. however after 80minutes of playing the fool, the director finally realised the gravity of the goof and corrected the error, allowing us to settle down to watch far more talented productions such as the shopping channel.

I saw this movie on Cinemax one night and just couldn't keep my eyes open. It sucked so bad. Bad plot, bad portrayal of computers. This is the kind of movie that made people who saw hackers think they're 1337 h4x0rs. I didn't expect much at all because i can usually tell a "cable quality made movie" from a big screen quality movie. You can usually tell by the cheesy midi quality "suspenseful" synthesizer music, and the really really overdone acting. Id give this a 1 out of 10.

This is a story about a teenager who deliberately downloads a virus to take down the new school computer security system. What she doesn't realize is that it is out to kill everyone.Where this film goes wrong is in everything that has to do with the physical universe. A combo of wires and mechanical doors moving by themselves, cold water pipes suddenly becoming scalding hot (for those who don't know, cold water pipes, especially sprinkler pipes, are physically isolated from hot water pipes in every building), and a computer turning a human into a cyborg. Most of these are forgivable in movies that involve possession or paranormal. But these have no place in a computer/virus horror movie. The only believable scenario involves an electric fence. Though, why anyone would install an electric fence around a school is beyond me.....All of the characters make the usual horror movie mistakes: splitting up, going back for more, not pulling the plug, etc. The acting is okay, considering the script...Only watch this if you are totally bored out of your mind. This would be a perfect film for Mystery Science Theatre 3000 to lampoon....David