Director: Rodo Sayagues
Notable Cast: Stephen Lang, Madelyn Grace, Brendan
Sexton III, Stephanie Arcila, Rocci Williams, Bobby Schofield, Adam Young,
Fiona O’Shaughnessy, Steffan Rhodri
Ten times out of ten, I’m the kind of person that will
defend a franchise. There’s a reason that Blood Brothers is the mothership of
the No Franchise Fatigue Movie Podcast and I’m one of the co-hosts of it. I am
not the one to ever say that a sequel (or any other additional entry to a
franchise) ruins the original. No one says Halloween (1978) is a worse
film for the fact that Halloween 6 exists. With that being said, boy
howdy, do I find Don’t Breathe 2 to be a wholly perplexing sequel that
takes bold (and confusing) swings with its premise and rarely connects despite
some solid execution on a visual and atmospheric standpoint. Don’t Breathe 2
is tonally more exploitative than its predecessor and yet the film feels the
need to over-explain itself.