Problems with this film

Working my way through the series for the first time, just got to this one. I'm not even going to get into a debate over the plot of the film. Like Inferno and Hellseeker, my feelings are very mixed about they way they jammed Hellraiser content into pre-existing unrelated scripts. In all three cases, I would like to see the original scripts unmolested, I suspect they would all be better films for it.

But regardless of whether or not you like the plot of this film, there are certain other elements that were really poorly done which can't be denied, IMO.

First, there's the lame special effects. From the extremely unconvincing looking wounds and blood everywhere, to the terrible CGI chain effects, this really served to take me out of the movie and ruin the creepy feeling it often otherwise would've had going for it. If you need an illustration of what I mean, watch the scene of Winter being chained up and ripped apart toward the end, then compare it to the same scene with Frank toward the end of the first film. Worlds apart. And that movie was made 18 years prior to this one!

Then there's the poorly written dialogue. I hold up for example the following masterpiece:

scumbag: "Why don't you show me what you learned?"
Amy: "You want me to show you what I learned, right here in front of everyone?"
scumbag: "Uhh...maybe later?"
Amy: "Maybe not!"

Lastly, there are all the truly lame attempts at jump scares, none of which work, because ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING that happens in this film is telegraphed miles ahead by blatant overuse of music cues and awkward camera cuts to where something scary is clearly about to happen. It's just not filmed very well for what they were aiming at, I think.

Ok, that's my two cents. Feel free to agree or disagree.