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Manuela Velasco, Ferran Terraza, Pablo Rosso, Àlex Batllori, Javier Botet, Jonathan D. Mellor, Clàudia Silva, Ariel Casas, Nico Baixas, Andrea Ros (more)VOD (2)
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The highly anticipated sequel to one of the scariest films of all time, [REC] 2 picks up 15 minutes from where we left off, taking us back into the quarantined apartment building where a terrifying virus has run rampant, turning the occupants into mindlessly violent, raging beasts. A heavily armed SWAT team and a mysterious government official are sent in to assess and attempt to neutralize the situation. What they find inside lies beyond the scope of medical science a demonic nightmare of biblical proportions more terrifying than they could have possibly imagined. Above all it must be contained, before it escapes to wreak havoc on the unsuspecting world outside. (Magnolia Pictures)
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[REC] 2 fleshes out the reasons for the events of the first installment, and that's one of the reasons why the film might downright piss some people off. Personally, I didn't find a problem with it, and *POTENTIAL SPOILER* enriching the zombie horror with elements of exorcist horror didn't seem like a downright bad idea. What sinks the film, however, are the main characters and the hellish lack of logic. They make the film quite confusing at times. Of course, the characters are incredibly stupid, the band of kids with a camera got on my nerves like few things do. Until those three stupid people disappeared from the picture, I honestly suffered. So why the four stars? Incredibly great and unscrupulous gore and at times strong suspense. Fantastically masked creatures and legendary headshots (I had a good laugh at one). And the scene of the shotgun blasting the head off the little boy is awesome. That's why I’m rating the film the way I am.
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Have you ever seen a baseball player during a baseball game? I mean the moment when he attentively watches the pitcher's movement, carefully prepares the bat, and calculates every fraction of a second of his decisive hit - to place the ball, zooming at a terrifying speed, right in your crotch. That's the feeling I had after a few shots of this horror spectacle, which film fans honored on FilmBooster. Not only that but in the following minutes, it seemed that the batter, frustrated by an unsuccessful hit, ran toward me with the bat in hand and delivered a series of painful blows to my most sensitive areas. I have no words for what happened on the television screen - well, no decent words. The expressions that come to mind are usually used when a hammer falls on my little finger or when my foot slides into dog excrement. The absence of any logic in the film characters. A screenplay that could have only been created as a joke or a cruel trick by filmmakers on the audience. A police commando, to be sent on an extremely important mission that reeks of a huge disaster, consists of members whose stupidity surpasses all limits, they must have been cast in a global casting call. The inhabitants of the house affected by the epidemic scream, wildly swing their arms, and without exception, do the last thing that would come to mind when facing a real threat. The constant instructions to use cameras to document what is seen here lack any logic, although this doesn't matter because practically everything lacks logic here. However, this dreadful experience raises the question of how sane I was when I gave the first film a rating of 3 stars. I must have been slightly affected by dementia or influenced by some chemical. Such a decline in quality is not possible between two parts and practically the same crew. Overall impression: triple underscore zero.
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A bit weaker, though it goes at full throttle from the very beginning and immediately picks up the desperate and oppressive atmosphere from the end of the first part. The filmmakers obviously set out to kick the viewer's ass as much as possible, they made absolute morons of the main characters, driving them into bigger and bigger, more and more suspenseful and more and more disgusting shit, with blood splattering all over the place, one attack of bloodthirsty zombies followed by another, and heads blown off with shotguns being par for the course. Unfortunately, this spectacular and immensely entertaining ride is increasingly undermined by a stylistically mismanaged and nonsensical twist about Satan. If the directors had dropped it and stuck to the deadly virus and the zombies, I wouldn't hesitate to give it a full rating, because this film doesn't let up for a second and the spooky finale in the dark is once again perfect. It's a pity, but they just wanted to make the best possible starting point for the next sequel, the quality of which I already have big doubts about.
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On one hand, it's nice that it directly follows the first film, but on the other hand, it's nothing more than a repetition of what happened in the first film, except that we mostly see everything from the perspective of soldiers tasked with evacuating the building or, rather, figuring out what actually happened. It’s decent enough, but it's not something that blew me away.
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If it had been made in Hollywood, I think of how overseas scouts liquidate talent, but Balagueró and Plaza have clearly liquidated themselves. The main trump card of the first film, the nagging feeling that all it takes is a little religious insanity for a similar situation to arise, is demolished by a series of backward explanations that kick logic in the head and destroy all tension. This is helped by stereotypical police SWAT characters, an utterly moronic trio of teenagers, and one absolutely "WTF?!" resurrection. It wasn't boring (although the lack of longer "steady cams" hurts), but it pissed me off (after half an hour permanently), and that's worse. 1 ½ stars for the bloody details. The rest gets both middle fingers up!
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