Director: Mj Dixon
Year: 2016
Country: United Kingdom
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Slasher
Plot:
After a series of encounters, a woman and a group of hunters are brought together to track down a series of vicious serial killers on the loose in the city, which soon brings her into contact with the head of the shadowy organization in charge of the killers, and she must find a way to stop them.
Review:
Overall, this was an immensely fun and likable follow-up. Among the more likable features here is the rather enjoyable series of setpieces at play that tend to evoke a more explosive action-oriented experience than anything else. Featuring a generally flimsy pretense to get the series of interactions in place where she’s joined by a squad of helpers to assist in tracking down the series of killers on the loose, it all makes this feel far more lively and energetic than the sluggish original. Rather than stay confined to the prison like last time, this one heads out into the streets of the city and goes for a spy-movie type of feel in how it deals with how she’s tracking down and eliminating the different killers throughout the city, and with the inclusion of solid gadgets and hand-to-hand weaponry that allows her the ability to deal with the killers rather easily, there’s a generally solid sense of energy throughout here.
The various interactions at play here provide this with another impressive factor in the wholly entertaining series of confrontations with the various killers and hired goons. Going around the city, interacting with not just the girl at the strip club but also getting into lengthy battles with various teenagers in a cemetery or the vicious street battles with the nameless thugs employed by the shady organization in charge of everything, there’s a solid sense of excitement to be had with these, providing the required high-energy action and shootouts when necessary. As well, with the focus still revolving around the work of serial killers and the need to stop them before they carry on killing others, there’s some fine scenarios here involving the need to stop the deranged, hulking figures here including the sword fight with the drill-handed killer or the big fight at the end where the reanimated beings are brought to life and lead into the thrilling ending fight with a fantastic air to it seeing these figures go at it. These all manage to provide this with the kind of highly enjoyable positives that give it a lot to like.
There are some issues that hold this down. The big issue here is the somewhat confusing and rather illogical storyline structure, where it’s completely possible to lose sight of the structure of the story that takes place. This is presented in a wholly nonlinear manner, where it constantly jumps back and forth in the timeline for what she’s doing, helping search for the killers out in the streets, or fighting the different thugs that come across as more disorienting than they should be. Since it takes so long to recognize that it’s being done in this manner, all it does is cause confusion over the different events in the timeline, with the way it sets up the kind of events out of order, and it feels hard to get into. On top of the somewhat obvious low-budget limitations here, trying to move from a horror-centered storyline into more of an ambitious, over-the-top Action/Horror hybrid that this attempts, these are what bring this down slightly.
Overview: ****/5
An effective and likable follow-up, there’s quite a lot to like here, which manages to bring this one along rather nicely against a few small flaws present that hold this one down. Those with an interest in this style of genre fare, who enjoyed the original, or who are fans of the creative crew, will have the most to like, while most others out there should heed caution.
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