While the original 'Exorcist' movie had a strong sense of authorial vision, both in the writing and the directing, the sequel feels like the commercial product it is. The tremendous success of the first movie made a second all but inevitable, and they do a reasonably good job here of building off the original, what has happened with Regan, more back story on Father Merrin. But the movie is too often silly, Louise Fletcher's flash bulb device that is suppose to allow two people to enter the same dream, Richard Burtons Father Lamont laying it on too thick. There were a few moments I liked, but this movie tired too hard, didn't feel natural enough, where the first film felt surprisingly real. Not awful, but just a conventional movie sequel to an unconventional film. **
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