[REC]2 (2009)

I don't know how they managed to wreck such a simple concept but they did. Just stick to the formula. That's all that had to happen to make this just as good as the first [REC] film. But no, multiple cameras, multiple protagonists, weapons, very little sense of dread, very little fear of the unknown, surprise cameo, all of this added together to create a very unfulfilling experience.
It was trying very hard to be the Aliens to [REC]'s Alien. In [REC], you had Ellen Ripley (Angela and Pablo) get caught in a rescue mission (the planet and the building respectively) that sees her as the last survivor, strongly soldiering on. Except Balaguero and Plaza killed their Ripley. So now you have a team of soldiers that get sent to investigate a downed receiver at a distant colony (dead policeman in a quarantined building), get told that there are monsters in there, get destroyed by the monsters after a pitched battle, the plucky survivor who Knows Better faces down with the Queen at the end and blows her out the airlock. Except Ripley is still dead. The plucky survivor is a side-character that everyone hates. The plucky survivor in [REC]2 is literally the Paul Reiser in Aliens. The character who is actually the villain in Aliens is the hero in [REC]2. Paul Reiser faces down with Queen and gets himself blown out the airlock, with no mechanical loader, no equalizer, nothing. There are some serious storytelling issues with this film, issues that make it boring.
Now there are some serious spoilers in this paragraph and this movie is pretty much dependent on its big reveal so beware or whatever.
How do you fix this? How do you make [REC]2 watchable while still keeping the ending from [REC]? You don't set it in the same building. You don't make the priest the protagonist while he is constantly and obviously  lying to the viewer insert character and putting his life in danger. I'm okay with Angela being the host for some weird Jason Goes to Hell-esque demon parasite, I'm okay with the soldiers being on the hunt rather than the other way around, I'm even okay with all the religious biology or whatever they keep trying to tack on to rationalize the monsters. Just give me this movie set in a monastery or something, with a single camera, and with a strong, likable protagonist. Please give me that.
I'll still be checking in for the sequels. Please don't disappoint again.