The Woman In Black 2:
Angel Of Death

2 Waffles!

The title is more intimidating than the movie.

It’s 40 years after the stuff from the last movie happened (that one with Harry Potter acting all grown up and stuff, remember?), and the Eel Marsh House is about to have some new occupants. World War II is raging and children from London have been evacuated to the countryside for their own safety. Of course, little do they know, they are being moved into a HAUNTED HOUSE!!!!!

Young Edward (Oaklee Pendergast), who just lost his parents, has started to act strangely. His young teacher (who has a secret), Eve (Phoebe Fox), wants to investigate further, and happens to need help from the hunky Royal Air Force pilot guy who lives nearby, Harry Burnstow (Jeremy Irvine). Guess what? He also has a secret! Why so many secrets?

What or who is making contact with Edward?

Does it mean harm?

Since the movie is called ANGEL OF DEATH, I bet you already figured out that whatever it is means great harm.

The Woman in Black 2: Angel Of Death is not the worst movie ever.

Director Tom Harper delivers a typical, almost introductory level director’s performance working with a script from Jon Croker, which very much is an introductory level screenplay.

Everything basic and rote you anticipate is here including the bumps in the night, long dark hallways people walk down very slowly, and shocking surprises jumping out at you from around the corners.

It’s all there in non-stunning but non-revolting fashion. The audience gets scared in all of the right places. All of the actors react with the proper fright and urgency.

Sadly, the action never truly rises the way it needs to. It's all very flat with each scare coming at about the same interval, and at the same level of fright.

We need an escalation to make The Woman In Black 2: Angel Of Death become more than average. Toward the end, one of the characters says something that would have made the movie 100% more interesting if it had been revealed earlier, which is sad, because that line of dialogue, that revelation, could have saved us from a predictable ending.

Also, Harper and Croker should have focused on the kids. Their interactions with dark forces of evil are so much more interesting and perilous than watching two adult love birds being drawn together to overcome their pasts and exchange some googly eyes. Most of the kids in the movie are just as good as the adults, so let them take the lead and make us fear more for the characters on screen.

The Woman In Black 2: Angel Of Death is passable.

The Woman In Black 2: Angel Of Death is rated PG-13 for some disturbing and frightening images, and for thematic elements.