Director: Andrew Jones
Year: 2019
Country: United Kingdom
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Killer Dolls
Plot:
Desperate to understand its power, a team of Soviet agents follows the toymaker and his dolls as they take a trip through Russian airspace on a special plane, but when he brings his dolls with them on the trip uses them to help him get revenge on the agents holding him captive.
Review:
This was a decent enough, if overall problematic, conclusion to the franchise. One of the biggest issues with this one comes from the continued and incessant need of the franchise to bring about an intriguing storyline that also manages to never bring the puppets into the mix until it’s far too late in the running time. The idea of this continuing from the last entry detailing the Nazi failure to retrieve the book and using that to alert the Soviets to realize that the rumors of the book’s powers are true, so they head out to get it for themselves, serves this rather nicely. This concept could’ve worked as a fun way to bring about the series of encounters with the living dolls as they try to make their way through a tough assignment regarding the continued appearance of the agents on their trail, looking into the various means of trying to wrest the book from his hands before capturing him and bringing him aboard the plane to start the rest of the story proper that this one tries to tell.
However, much like the majority of the other films in the series, this one ages for such a lengthy amount of time trying to make the agents catch up to the toymaker and his dolls that there’s not much interesting action going on. The spy/thriller shenanigans involving the Soviet agents continually coaxing him to try giving up the fabled book, only to turn away the threat with the same type of outcome as if it’s entirely foreign to someone that a person who’s capable of such tricks that’s been reported of him couldn’t have done it on his own. This lack of awareness and generally lazy means of keeping him in the same upper hand regarding the agents trailing him makes it all feel slightly lame and repetitive since it happened in the last entry as well, giving this the same series of setups to let him escape through stupidity rather than cunning, causing it to be immensely dragging and repetitive in that regard. Alongside the cheap, low-budget presentation here, these all keep this one down overall.
Overview: *.5/5
A better entry than the previous sequel, this one manages to have some worthwhile factors to it, even though far too much of it is problems taken from the other entries in the series, which keep it down in the franchise. This one is mainly for those who enjoy this style of genre fare or who are franchise completists, while most others out there should heed extreme caution.
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