On balance, 2 isn’t as scary as its predecessor, but it’s just as exhilarating, and I actually prefer it to the original. You won’t be bored for a millisecond as Balagueró and Plaza rattle through the necessarily brief running time by ramping up the stakes and masterfully telling a strong horror story. My willing suspension of disbelief was profound enough for me to overlook most of these problems, mostly because the film is so relentlessly exciting. This never bothered me as much as it might have. It allows for some picture-in-picture split screen action, if and when our heroes are separated, but also gives way to what some have said turns the film into a first-person shooter, as our perspective now has to accommodate a readied weapon too. Cloverfield still has the gold star for circumventing this problem in the character of Hud, who was always present even when he was ‘documenting’.Īlso into the mix comes the helmet cameras of the SWAT team as our way in to the scenes. Like Pablo before him, he defers largely to those we can actually see. Owen, played with paranoia and fervour by Jonathan Mellor, but otherwise we get four comparatively indistinct SWAT guys and a number of other more annoying characters in that midsection.Ĭrucially, there’s a recurring problem from the first film, in that Rosso, our lead cameraman for this run around, doesn’t contribute much as a character. I also missed the well-rounded characters of the first film, as such character development largely falls by the wayside to the mythology. Sometimes its own innovation can become overbearing, as in a certain section about midway through that largely seems like padding, in hindsight. Romero’s zombie canon in the context of Blair Witch-esque ‘found footage’, and that what Balagueró and Plaza exceed at in both films is handling familiar ideas in engaging and exhilarating ways.Īre there problems with it? Yes, but nothing too vast to overcome.
What such critics haven’t noticed is that wasn’t particularly original either, using the conventions of George A.
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