The first movie was already mediocre due to its poor script and the resulting logical errors, lack of character development and general predictability of events.
But the second part tops it all off, it almost seems like a hunt to find out which character can do something even more absurd than the last. The children are even more obnoxious than in the first movie, and everything is so predictable that it almost seems ridiculous.
Not so bad at first, but already noticeable in the first 2-3 minutes of the film!
"Oh, the only word the man learns in sign language at the beginning for no reason at all - becomes useful again at the end?!" "Oh, a dog is barking at the clouds!" "Oh, they're on a baseball field - they're not going to have a scene where people look up and see "something" - as has been done in several other films, right?"
This stuff is still harmless, but right from the start it shows the complete predictability of everything in the film. What follows is much worse, but I'm trying to stay spoiler-free here, therefore I will not elaborate further on that.
And something like that goes on throughout the entire film, we don't even want to start talking about the oxygen or the oxygen bottles later, and what is quiet or loud and how the films define this and how, like in the first film, it makes no sense at all and that goes on throughout the entire film and leaves you shaking your head at every scene.
If you really want to go into any of this in detail, then a bottomless hole of logic errors opens up that I have neither the time nor the desire to deal with.
The film is good on a cinematic level, Emily Blunt is also convincing again (unfortunately she has hardly any real screen time this time). Cillian Murphy is also much better cast in the male lead role, as he is simply more talented and likeable than Krasinski before.
In contrast to many others, I think the pacing is very good, in the almost 90 minutes (without credits) enough happens, no matter how silly it is, that there is still no boredom.
In addition, as bad as I think the film is, just like the first one, it still arouses interest in more of the story because you simply want to know what the creatures are all about. Since this one doesn't address it either, it remains to be seen whether this is a good or bad thing, as we need to see at least one more of these films.
But the second part tops it all off, it almost seems like a hunt to find out which character can do something even more absurd than the last. The children are even more obnoxious than in the first movie, and everything is so predictable that it almost seems ridiculous.
Not so bad at first, but already noticeable in the first 2-3 minutes of the film!
"Oh, the only word the man learns in sign language at the beginning for no reason at all - becomes useful again at the end?!" "Oh, a dog is barking at the clouds!" "Oh, they're on a baseball field - they're not going to have a scene where people look up and see "something" - as has been done in several other films, right?"
This stuff is still harmless, but right from the start it shows the complete predictability of everything in the film. What follows is much worse, but I'm trying to stay spoiler-free here, therefore I will not elaborate further on that.
And something like that goes on throughout the entire film, we don't even want to start talking about the oxygen or the oxygen bottles later, and what is quiet or loud and how the films define this and how, like in the first film, it makes no sense at all and that goes on throughout the entire film and leaves you shaking your head at every scene.
If you really want to go into any of this in detail, then a bottomless hole of logic errors opens up that I have neither the time nor the desire to deal with.
The film is good on a cinematic level, Emily Blunt is also convincing again (unfortunately she has hardly any real screen time this time). Cillian Murphy is also much better cast in the male lead role, as he is simply more talented and likeable than Krasinski before.
In contrast to many others, I think the pacing is very good, in the almost 90 minutes (without credits) enough happens, no matter how silly it is, that there is still no boredom.
In addition, as bad as I think the film is, just like the first one, it still arouses interest in more of the story because you simply want to know what the creatures are all about. Since this one doesn't address it either, it remains to be seen whether this is a good or bad thing, as we need to see at least one more of these films.