Director James Wan has delivered what should rightfully be considered his masterpiece. There is a breadth and scale of ambition at work, which really tops anything he’s tried in the genre before.
Most importantly: it’s a resounding success.
Wan has a gift for investing even the creakiest cliches with shivery élan.A supernatural winner.There are some solid scares(Wan is too gifted in the dark art of gotcha manipulation to not make you leap a few times), but there’s nothing on par with the first film’s brilliant hide-and-clap scene with Lili Taylor. If there’s going to be a Conjuring 3—and this movie is just decent enough to suggest there will be—our heroes should be a little choosier about which case they dust off next.The Conjuring 2 satisfies more than it disappoints.