This was so bad. It was so, so bad. I loved the original. I’ve seen it like a dozen times.

We begin immediately where the last movie ended. Actually, a little before. Grace is taken into custory as a murder suspect, quite understandably. However, turns out that the weird rules of the Satanic cult require her to play again. However, to entice her, the bad guys also bring in her sister, Faith.

This is the perfect moment for a movie like this. The hatred for the rich is at an all-time high. People despise billionaires, even if they don’t believe they are running Satanist cults. People are realizing that the rich are actually evil and they hold way too much power. So, what does the movie focus on? Two sisters bickering. Usually at the worst possible times. It’s not like they are trying to stay alive and then argue when they are safe. They just fight whenever.

This is especially a problem since the real power we have against the rich is solidarity. Also, they continue the streak of classism in this movie. Not as badly as in the first one, which would often laugh at the servants getting killed. Here the help is just basically invisible. Again, they don’t seem to feel any sympathy towards the people who are actually very much like them. The sisters actually both worked in similar jobs (waitress and hostess). That could have been a thing, if the writers weren’t so oblivious. It is noteworthy that the directors took over writing the screenplay from the writers of the original. Clearly, they don’t have a similar touch.

There are some attempts to make the rich people more complex as characters, but that just fails. It’s too forced and it doesn’t sit well with the overall theme of the movie. They should be superficial pieces of shit. Maybe some of them have learned to fake civility. Instead, they try to have a moment a couple of times, but it just falls apart in both cases.

There’s also a lack of interesting action. The first movie was much better at this. There’s one attempt at a set piece which fails so, so badly. Clearly they had a big idea of having a huge moment, but it just falls on it’s ass.

I am so disappointed in this movie. This feels like such an easy win. Like, this writes itself, but instead they just did the same thing but bigger, even though they seem to have thought they were doing something unique.