![]() Perhaps being a foreigner I am (to this movie's origin country, styles/techniques, language and genres) I didn't quite catch it. Granted, when you watch this, and I had to rewatch the final moments of the original again to see if I wasn't mistaken, it states this revelation was "clearly" foretold in the original's climax. I'm guessing they're attempt is to up the ante for style and originality was noted and worked. In addition, we get the Aliens treatment of picture-in-picture military POVs. Now, we get a new POV from more hand-held camera kids/punks who make their stupid/curiosity-killed-the-cat way into the building. What's clever as this part, and the first third or so, is done in the same hand-held shaky camera fashion by the same types of people from the original, but then they mix it up a bit. Hell (literally, I suppose) is still breaking lose inside as they attempt to stop this from getting out. When does the phrase "Nothing could possibly go wrong" ever be accurate? Taking place not seconds, but the moment the first Rec ended, the disease control and military break into the apartment complex of a viral outbreak to gather evidence and contain the situation. A demon possesses a girl the Catholics are frightened and assign a priest to run experiments to get a cure before Satan's minion infects others. Oh, is it a spoiler to say what it is since that's 98% of the plot? Fine, be warned, I'll continue. So, you've been advised: this review will contain a major spoiler.) It's getting more than clichéd to state: Be careful for what you wish for as I got what I wanted in Rec 2: the explanation of the previous films outbreak. It's stated almost immediately after this film, Rec 2, starts and is the central core of the movie. It was simply too hard (or I'm paid far too little) to work around the big "secret" of the virus of the original movie: Rec. (DISCLAIMER: I do put spoilers in my reviews, I'll admit, but hardly none as revealing than the following. It's not quite up to the same quality, but it's worth checking out to see the interesting direction the story goes in. REC 2 is basically more of the same, so if you enjoyed the first, there's no real reason why you shouldn't see this. There's also a slight feeling of repetition that comes with using the same location again, but that's understandable considering the direct plot continuance. Did that ruin the movie? No, but I definitely cared about the well-being and survival of these people less than those that came before. On the negative side, I did find the new characters introduced in this one to be almost universally unlikable and annoying. No complaints from me there, I enjoyed the expansion of the overall mythos and the added backstory/explanation for some of the people and events of the first film. ![]() REC 2 takes the supernatural elements of the first movie and further explores them, which sets it apart from some similar zombie-type films. This is a direct continuation of the original, and happens in and around the same apartment building on the same night. Not as cohesive or frightening, as the first REC (which is one of my favorite modern horror movies), but still a tense and thrilling horror ride, more often than not.
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