[REC]² (2009)

Sadly Over-hyped

Dreadfully Boring

It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

"(Rec) 2" takes place 15 minutes after the events of the first film. A GEO team and a man who's supposed to be a medical officer enter the quarantined apartment building. However, despite the fact that this building is supposedly sealed off, a stupid bunch of kids manage to make their way inside. The story follows the first group for a while, then introduces the kids, before bringing them together as the search for the source / antidote to the outbreak remains underway.This sequel to the Spanish horror hit is effectively chaotic at times, but it also tends to be lacking in suspense. There is simply way too much chatter, and viewers could argue that there's way too much exposition as well. (That said, there's a certain level of intrigue in the way that biological and religious rationales are sort of tied together here.) The assortment of new characters introduced isn't terribly interesting, so it does come as a relief when lovely Manuela Velasco makes an encore appearance as reporter Angela."(Rec) 2" is reasonably bloody and violent, so it delivers fairly well on a visceral level. Unfortunately, it's too hard to care what happens to any of these people. And the attacks are much more amusing than they are harrowing. This does have some good moments, but with less of the atmosphere that made the first "(Rec)" so compelling, it's definitely a comedown from the original film.Six out of 10.

In terms of horror sequels, it does a few things better than it's predecessor, but I still prefer the first one. The only thing I thought was wrong with the original was the shaky-cam, and thankfully that's downplayed in this. Except for the kid's camera sequence, the camera's held slightly steady, it shakes during action scenes, but other than that you can tell the directors actually put effort into this. It's not just a lazy cash-in like other sequels. The biggest problem the movie has is that it feels like it has to tie up loose ends from the first movie. Did you want to follow the dad that couldn't get in during the first movie? No? Well that sucks because a third of the movie is centered around him. The iconic ending to the first movie is also kind of spoiled in this, instead of like a radical mutation of rabies, we have demon possessed zombies. Now demon possession can be creepy, but I'm pretty sure Satan can't be transferred through the exchange of bodily fluids. The demonic zombie twist is certainly unique, but I wouldn't say it's a good twist. They tried to do something different with this, and I can respect that, but I think I'll just stick to the first movie if I want to see another one of these again.

"Rec 2" is the second movie of the Rec trilogy and the story continues where the first one finished but in this one we watch a group of SWAT to enter this building with a medical officer to control the situation and to see what happened to the sealed off apartment.I liked this second movie because of the storyline and how that continues and I believe that Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza for one more time did a great job. I also liked the interpretations of Jonathan D. Mellor who played as Dr. Owen, and Manuela Velasco who played as Ángela Vidal as in the first one. Alejandro Casaseca who played as Manu made an also good interpretation.Finally I have to tell you that "Rec 2" is a little bit lower than the first one but it is an also nice movie.

I read a lot of people talking about the change of science from REC to religion, but let me ask you one thing: Are you guys insane?The first film showed us the beginning of the virus, nobody knows his origins. During the film, we saw that behaves similar to zombies, insanity, bites, attack anything in their way, till here it's OK you guys thought that this film is another movie about zombies, but the story is much more complicated than that and the answers only come at the end:The girl who was possessed by the demon is in the building and she started all of this, it's here that we discover that they are not zombies, but people who were possessed. Please, stop acting like if the second movie has changed everything that the first one said. This is different than anything before, it's not a boring story about demons, it's brilliant.