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Yes, this was horrible. Some of the sequels mentioned fell short on ambition or tried squeezing more out of a franchise that didn't really have the story to tell, but MKII was off the back of a "better than it deserved to be" first movie and absolutely bombed in every imaginable way.
Resident Evil Apocalypse is the same. The first one wasn't as bad as I expected, but the second one was absolutely atrocious.
Crank 2 - Spite film IMO. First one was unfairly critised when it wasn't trying to be the things it was critised for. It's like the filmmakers got the second one and said "Yeah? Well take this!" The final image of Statham holding the middle finger to the camera while burning alive was a shot at the critics who bashed the first one IMO. Sadly it also ended up being the same thing to those who switched their brain off and enjoyed the first one for what it was. You don't do that to your audience just to get back at a few critics.