You won't be disappointed!

Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

I have to say I was pretty surprised by how much I liked the first 2/3 of this movie. Didn't have high hopes coming in but was happy to see a good 90's horror flick with a storyline. Then the " Climax " happens and it all goes to hell. Seriously people ? That's what you have for an ending to all this? So disappointed

Remembered this from my teenage years. Always pull it out from time to time

An unnecessary sequel-cum-remake to De Palma's original which gets by thanks to the quality of the scripting and acting, surprisingly enough. It must be said that this movie can barely qualify as a "horror" movie and instead works better as a "teen drama" type film. The horror content is low, there are absolutely no scary scenes in it whatsoever, instead we get in-your-face gore to make up for the lack of chills. A large part of the film concerns the developing romance between the two lead characters which is delicately handled and faintly moving. Emily Bergl is no Sissy Spacek but makes for quite a strong lead, however the scriptwriter made her far too strong a character and able to fend for herself, whereas Spacek played a mentally troubled, physically inferior girl suffering from depression and isolation. Bergl instead has friends, a close boyfriend, is attractive and disliked by only a few at school. Where's the drama in that? Where's the reason for the gory massacre that predictably closes the movie? The plot is definitely this movie's weak point. It strictly adheres to the original CARRIE, throwing off only a few different sub-plots (the 'high school sex ring leading to suicide' is a nice idea and makes for some suitably loathsome "jock" type characters as the villains). As the movie progresses it follows the original more and more slavishly, ending in a re-run of the massacre and even a ludicrous ending involving bad CGI work (London sees Bergl in a dream, and she shatters). Amy Irving returns from the original in a thankless role, and her character is totally extraneous to the plot. Quite a few scenes are devoted to her and Rachel's real mother, who is broken out of an asylum to come and see her daughter. At the end, it turns out that whole sub-plot was a waste of time.Jason London (JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS) has a good solid role as the jock with a heart and the various high school cliché characters are fairly solid and hateable enough. Even a pre-stardom Mena Suvari makes a brief, tragic appearance, going from her ugly duckling character here to an angelic sexual character in American Beauty. One thing I didn't like about the film was the handling of the gore content, which was over-the-top and sometimes needless. Did we need to see the dog crushed under the wheels of a moving car? These scenes are ill-judged and rather loathsome. At least the finale is entertaining enough, where the gore content is upped and we are treated to all manner of bizarre (and deserved) deaths – decapitation, impaling by CDs, drowning, blinding and my favourite, unexpected castration. Although THE RAGE: CARRIE 2 is entertaining enough, it pales as a sequel to the original classic so one best ignore the first film ever happened to get a kick out of it. Otherwise you'll sit wondering just why they bothered.

Filmed as a sequel to the original 1976 Carrie, this movie is set some 22 years after the events of Carrie. High school student Rachel has lost her best friend to suicide and, in making matters worst, is the victim of tormenting from a bunch of punk football jocks who sleep with girls to score points. But, this tormenting threatens to put Rachel's power of telekinesis to action.Emily Bergl did a nice job portraying Rachel as an outcast, troubled, yet vulnerable and sympathetic. Dylan Bruno and Zachary Ty Bryan played love-to-hate portrayals of Mark and Eric, displaying that rich but spoiled, punky guys type. But their acting was dull, as well as Jesse Ryan's emotionless portrayal of Jesse Ryan. The plot device of Rachel's best friend committing suicide after finding out she is another pawn in the guys' sex games is a clever way to lead into the movie's turn-of-events and, eventually, into Rachel's unleashing of her powers. Add onto the return of Amy Irving as Sue Snell to serve as a link between the two films, trying to discover the history of Rachel's powers and the link between her and Carrie is a great piece of suspense. However, much of this drama is lost as the plot was rushed through toward the second half of the movie.***major spoilers ahead*** The ending carnage was action-packed, but many important plot elements were left unexplained, including the fate of Rachel's mother, the whereabouts of Ralph White (Carrie and Rachel's father) and the town's reaction after Rachel's wrath. And, Sue Snell served as a very important link between the past and present and wanted to put all the pieces together to help Rachel, but she was unceremoniously killed off *** major spoilers ends*** What started out as a suspenseful and dramatic movie came to a mishmash of loose-ends.Grade D