Lack of good storyline.

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Better than I thought it might have been, but still could have been more interesting.Without spoiling,Most action comes in the last 20 minute of the film. And it's a very good scene worthy of any horror movie.I do agree with another poster who said that Emily Bergl's character was too pretty to play the outcast ugly-duckling. Honestly, she was better looking and more charismatic than ANY other of the young ladies in the film. I was mesmerized by her.I wish there was a little more action in the second act of the film rather than relying on faux horror character development. I didn't really care to know much about the other characters, other than Emily Bergl's character and her boyfriend---honestly, they were the only true interesting characters in the film.

Making a sequel to a famous movie shouldn't be only an excuse to make a movie but that's what we have here. "Carrie" was a remarkable film when it debuted but was being forgotten over time. This was a sequel attempt but any resemblance to "Carrie" is mere coincidence, as it repeats the same story with another girl, Rachael Lang, blending everything with the usual ingredients of the obnoxious teen movies. And just like "Carrie" or any slasher teen movie, everything ends in carnage, with gore to the liking of teenagers without brains and who use their genitals to think. Boring and predictable are two adjectives we can use for it Frankenstein plot, as strange as the breeding of a mare with a zebra. The ending is rather exaggerated and forced. The main character, Rachael, never really gets connected with the public, so her life or death is something that doesn't bother us. The film makes a lot of effort to look scary but it's like a magician show: huge show off that brings nothing new. The actors aren't necessarily good but their work is OK. Conclusion: Its a teenage film that is on the borderline between mediocre and bearable, using the fame of an old film in an inglorious way.

After her friend commits suicide, a teen finds herself slowly getting involved with the football players who supposedly caused it only to realize their true nature and causes her to unveil her slowly-developing telekinetic powers on the guilty party at a celebration.This here was quite the enjoyable sequel which really has a lot going for it. What really gives this one some solid points here is the fact that there's some really rather fun and exciting ways in how the film is connected to the first one that ties them together rather nicely. It takes pretty much the exact same storyline and adds some contemporary sub-plots that actually move the story along and allow the film to set up a problem or two that will result in her humiliation. The reasons that she has to seek vengeance are very realistic reason, as wanting to get back at people who have broadcast her first sexual activity and then tying that into the game with her friend which is plenty of reasons to seek it. The sex alone would be enough, but then the other activities push her over the edge and sets the whole thing in motion with their tormenting and bullying her throughout that second half of the film. With that, the party where it all goes south is action- packed and striking with plenty of fun here with the fire, the grand design of the house coming into play with plenty of encounters on different levels and rooms of the house and the household objects used as killing instruments is very exciting to see. It has the spectacle needed to really sell the humiliation as necessary while remaining faithful to what the original showcased, provided more gore and really brought those powers to the forefront in a grand fashion which is needed here to let the film end on a grand note. These here really give this quite a lot to like and hold this up over the film's negatives. The film's biggest issue is the rather off pacing, as though it's not bland or dull nearly all of the action occurs at the end which allows for some really trying moments in the first half as we get character development and all the set-up and have to deal with a lot of cliché developments. These have appeared in so many films that there's little about the characters being developed which generates some rather familiar stereotypes as they are so easily spotted that you can do it yourself without any trouble. This one also tends to become quite loose when it comes to setting this one in the same universe as the with some rather flimsy connections to make that work and it really is a stretch on some of the issues. These here are the problems that hold this one back.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, Nudity, some sex scenes and a scene of animal violence.

One could easily be forgiven for having serious misgivings about this belated sequel to Brian De Palma's iconic horror classic: director Katt Shea's movies are primarily B-movie fodder, and the cast—Emily 'who?' Bergl, Mena 'It's all been downhill since '99' Suvari, S**tbreak from American Pie, and Rachel 'Cher from the TV series of Clueless' Blanchard—hardly inspire confidence. But while its admittedly a long way from the excellence of the '76 original, neither is it the totally unwatchable crap-fest that one might imagine.Bergl plays high-school student Rachel Lang, who lives with foster parents, her real mother having been committed to an asylum when she was young. After her best friend Lisa (Suvari) commits suicide, Rachel sees school counsellor Sue Snell (Amy Irving) who becomes convinced that the girl possesses psychic powers similar to those of Carrie White, a shy, reclusive girl whose powerful telekinetic abilities resulted in death and destruction twenty three years earlier. When Rachel begins to date football player Jesse (Jason London) and is invited to a party by the popular kids, things appear to be looking up, but tragedy lies just around the corner.For much of its running time, The Rage is more like a high-school drama than a horror film, focussing on the trials and tribulations of teenage life; it's clichéd stuff but passes the time painlessly enough. Finally, after an hour and a half of teenage shenanigans, some weak attempts at style from Shea (unnecessary black and white scenes and distorted imagery) and a little lazy exposition to explain away Rachel's powers, the film finally delivers the horror goods with a cracking climax that sees Rachel unleashing the full force of her telekinesis on her tormentors with spectacularly gory results (including a guy getting his junk blown off by a spear-gun!).