sentences:  Steve Johnson from the "Chicago Tribune" disagreed, arguing that the flashback structure, "make[s] it more than just a rehash of the first film".It also elicited praise from Ron Wertheimer, who wrote for "The New York Times" that the flashbacks and the new ending were creative ideas.John Levesque of "Seattle Post-Intelligencer" and Anthony Arrigo of Dread Central, however, felt the former alteration was not an improvement, calling the conclusion "so undramatic" and "undeniably weak", respectively.