Great practical FX give way to a never ending deluge of hallucinatory nightmares that lose all impact as the film progresses. It's hard not to blame Inferno for establishing the bland narrative/character template for the sequels to come

Manages to reinvent itself just enough to feel pretty fresh for a series that felt like it had run its course.

...a pervasively interminable thriller...

A movie whose heavy atmosphere might have been done better elsewhere, but it <i>has</i> a heavy atmosphere, and that's more than other <i>Hellraiser</i> sequels can claim.