SPOILERS BELOW
It's fine, it's an okay horror movie mostly doing stuff that we've seen many times, with some Evil Dead dressing on top but none of those movies' character or invention or cruel wit. It had a few nicely executed moments like the corpse's eyes slapping back open, or watching carnage unfold through a front door peephole and the combo-Deadite was pretty cool even if it was very The Thing and not as cool as the weirder Evil Dead 2 monsters, but mostly it felt a bit bland, which wasn't helped by the director only remembering occasionally that he was making an Evil Dead movie and the rest of the time sticking to bland compositions and editing. Also, it's the longest of all five ED movies for no good reason - they could easily have cut the pointless, lazy bookending segments as well as the pregnancy test scene.
I might have liked the last one a little more, can't remember. About the same though - some indie horror director asking themselves "what if I made The Evil Dead again except boring?"
Rating: Okay.
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