The Undead Symphony

Episode 344: REC2 (2009)

Darren Smith, Michael Avery and Guests

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And we are back with the sequel, taking place 2 hours after the end of the first as a SWAT team of four including an idiot cameraman played by the same actor as the idiot cameraman in the first movie go in with a doctor to assess the situation in the apartment building. It is obvious though that the doctor knows more than he is letting on, and it is true! The whole thing is demonic possession, with the virus allowing sufferers to be controlled by a demon. 

It means we do get some cool voice changing from the kids and cops as they are taken over. And we do have some cool kills. However, this does suffer from the Jurassic Park issue. We had our mind blown by the T-rex in the first, in the second it was ok, and by the third it was meh. Here the hectic style of the first movie is persisted, we do have some good kills and a story loop. We also get a great ending that should have set up another movie between this one and the fourth, however, the third (GENESIS) doesn't continue the story of Angela Vidal.

I have scored the others higher now, the series being REC (7/10), and all the others REC2, REC:GENESIS and REC:APOCALYPSE 6/10 making it a consistently entertaining series and well worth the watch.