I'm very curious to see this. That's the thing is if you have a good script then the movie will likely be good or at least your chances are much better. That turd of a reboot in 2016 was downright awful, which is a shame because I loved the cast. I just thought their talents were wasted on a dumb script. Critical reviews are too often bought and sold anymore for early access so I don't put any stock in them. Plus if we go by the holy standards of Rotten Tomatoes, thus says the Lord, it's clear there is a schism between critics and audiences that's too wide to ignore as just being the divide between scholared writers and the unclean masses but more about the critic's own bias towards the studios.
I'm looking forward to Afterlife and while I don't have lots of expectations for it, it would be nice to have a worthy sequel that honors the past films while carrying the story forward in a natural way. In a time where institutions are being torn down and our entertainment is being infested with contrarian garbage that seeks to undermine everything, I think at this point all we can honestly hope for is a decent movie rather than a great one. I will say that everything I've seen thus far with Afterlife looks promising.