1/10 (could've been 0). Here's why:
CARRIE was compelling because it made us relate to the character’s tragic life. In fact, to this day, people are still debating on whether she had the right to do what she did or not. THE RAGE: CARRIE PART 2 tries to appeal only to a teen audience with the situations and the dialogue, and it’s boring. And worst of all, RACHEL’s life isn’t even tragic. You see, CARRIE didn’t get mad because of the prank; she snapped because the prank was the culmination of many forms of abuse she had been suffering all her life. What they do to RACHEL is terrible, but it wasn’t the culmination of anything. She was living a pretty normal life. Her dad slapped her when she tried to snick into her house after staying out all night, but there are no indications on whether he’s done that before. He got mad at the beginning, but that was because of her attitude. She lost her only friend, but at least she had one. And she clearly moves on after she starts dating JESSE, which leads me to my next point. Finding out (or in her case, believing) that your boyfriend or girlfriend doesn’t love you and just used you for sex is awful, but eventually you move on. You don’t move on when nobody has ever loved you and you think that no one ever will. And more importantly: It’s obvious that RACHEL hasn’t been living practically on lockdown like CARRIE, so it was her choice to be an outkast. This is why I say this was targeted to teens: It seems like it was written by a teen. A teen whose life sucks because they don’t know what a bad life really is. Specially with the tragic ending where she dies. Come on! CARRIE gave up on life because, aside from her deadly injuries, she realized that her revenge didn’t make things better and that she had nothing to live for. RACHEL decides to die right after finding out JESSE did love her. What was her reasoning? Oh, right. Teen angst isn’t meant to be logical.
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