A brilliant film that helped define a genre

The acting in this movie is really good.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

This movie gave me PTSD, anytime a movie start to even remotely look like Exorcist 2 I start to have a panic attack. Just don't wast your time mental stability over this movie it's not worth it.

If "The Exorcist" is one of the best horror films ever, this sequel can be one of the worst. The story seeks to give logical continuity to the first film but ends up losing all logic. Linda Blair retakes the character who made her famous, but she's so stupid and shallow that we just do not recognize her. Next to her comes the veteran Richard Burton, in the role of an unconvincing Catholic priest. In fact, he was already drowned in alcoholism in the same way that Blair might no longer be unknown to drugs. There is no merit in the support cast, no use talking. The script should have been used as toilet paper before the movie was shot. Everything that could be stuck in the film ended up appearing, invariably ridiculous, forced and pitiful: from obvious allusions to the hippies (watch costumes, for example) to an absurd story involving an African tribe, not to mention that box with strobe lights which left the person hypnotized. To make the salad more complete only the aliens and medieval knights were lacking. Can we offer this film to Pazuzu, to see if he takes the movie away for good?

this is what you get if you don't respect the source material by letting an different director having total control by not recapturing the brilliance of the previous film and not staying faithful in continuity and getting lost in the visuals where there was no narrative what so ever during the third act where they turned an 16 year old into a seductive madam of Sodom and Gomorrah that is off putting by seeing an vicar molesting an minor that felt insulting and the whole story and plot of this film felt flat from start to finish there is no redeeming quality about this film and this truly demonstrate of not respecting the source material or its fans of the original cult classic that's why my lower rating of 5 out of 10 .FRANKIE HOLTZMANN SMALESALIENBUGSTOMPERFAN

What's worst about this film is that the original Exorcist film simply didn't deserve this. I have seen a lot of bad sequels to good films in my time, but this one has to take the biscuit. I don't believe I have ever seen a sequel deviate so drastically and so clumsily from its source material. With hideous performances from Blair and Burton, a diabolical script and scenes so badly shot that I was howling with laughter at one point, Exorcist II is one of the worst films ever produced. Ellen Burstyn - one of the best things about the astonishing original - wisely avoided this catastrophe, and all who read this are advised to do the same.