In 2008, when horror reached torture porn and found images, Foreigners came with a discreetly haunting premise that took its time and left the public truly unstable, despite its simplicity. The idea of a group of masked killers tormenting a couple simply because they were at home were disturbing and struck very real fears that someone slipped in the shadows, waited to attack – and aggravate things, just for hell. Foreigners was a breath of fresh air At a time when the genre tried to clear the public as much as possible.
Last year, Harlin Rennyfilm director such as Die hard 2,, Deep blue seaand a notorious flop Mouthreleased the first from a restart of trilogy planned with Foreigners: Chapter 1. With Chapter 1Harlin managed to make a worse version of ForeignersThe transforming into a brainless slasher without tension and without the underlying fear that made the original film work as well as. To put it slightly, this restart trilogy was in a bad position. However, Harlin sort of flowed to a new lower for this franchise with Foreigners: Chapter 2,, A film which is a complete calculation error of what made these films terrifying and interesting in the first place.
What is “foreigners: Chapter 2” is used for?
Of the same opening, Foreigners: Chapter 2 does not make sense. The film opens with a statistic on the number of murders are acts of random violence committed towards foreigners. But after Chapter 1Maya (Madelaine Petsch) is not unrelated to the masked man and two masked female accomplices who killed his fiancé, Ryan (Froy GUTIERREZ), in front of her and left her for dead. In fact, after information on the local restaurant by the Sheriff Rotter (Richard brake) that Maya is still alive and in the hospital, It takes long before this trio of masked murderers Chaya to finish work.
During the 98 minutes you have ever felt, Maya escapes the claws of these three and againoccasionally finding someone she thinks she has confidence to really be The killers. While Maya tries to go to security, no one will speak or act as a real human being; Each decision is almost incredibly stupid, and you will wonder more than once how this story has been stretched at the obscene point that it had to be told during three Movies.
“ Foreigners: chapter 2 ‘does not understand what made the original so convincing
Harlin and writers Alan R. Cohen And Alan Freedland – who also wrote Chapter 1And strangely, co-written the Robert Downey Jr./ /Zach Galifianakis road comedy Two dates – seems to have looked at Foreigners And said, “Hey, and if we do this again, but has torpedoed everything that worked?” Right away, Chapter 2 is no longer an act of random violence; It is a direct attempt to track Maya, a loose end that they must clean. In this original film, the trio of murderers felt like maniacs of flesh and blood that played by the rules of logic and time. As with Chapter 1,, This second chapter transforms them into your killer into a basic and boring film serieswhich can appear at any time, but often manages to make the most stupid choices whenever they are relatively close to our protagonist.
Ok, but what about the feeling of dread, could you ask? Naturally, it is nonexistent here. Harlin seems to think that making this story laboriously slow is the same as the construction of tension. The scenes continue far Too long, and is equivalent to Maya taking her time to find a hiding place, a killer comes into play, and at the worst possible moment, she makes the slightest noise. The killer is then distracted, moves on to something else, and all of this is played over again and again. It is as if Harlin, Cohen and Freedland were aware that the most effective part of Chapter 1 was the sequence of tent balloon, in which Maya had to be silent after having accidentally took a nail in her hand while crawling, so they decided to continuously recreate this moment without any excitement or fear. Chapter 2 Don’t put yourself on EdgE, but he thinks that if she goes through each scene, it will have the same impact – bad news: she actually has the opposite effect.
However, you could surely ask for the anonymity of these killers causes a certain excitement, right? Especially since Maya meets characters who could potentially be the killers ?? Absolutely not, no. The characters that Maya meets are not too obviously not the killers, Or They are so ridiculously exaggerated (as we see with the extremely exaggerated performance of the former JD Vance, Gabriel Basso). Even more ridiculous is that Chapter 2 decides that this trio of killers Really needs is an original storyWhile we reduce their childhood. Again, if part of the inherent terror of Foreigners Could they be anyone who attacks without reason, explaining who he is completely canceled.
In one way or another, “chapter 1” is even worse than “foreigners: chapter 1”
It is also wild of the way Harlin is as a horror director here. In a scene, Maya must sew her wounds that have withdrawn after having run like a maniac of the killers and people who try to help him. It should be a lay-up for Harlin; People who have to sew in movies are an easy way to make teeth to the public in their seats. However, in a way, he even spoils that, because the scene makes sewing difficult to see, blocking it even with Maya’s hand at a given time. Innumerable other films have done this scene well – it doesn’t take much to do a moment like that uncomfortable – but Harlin cannot even do this work.
Cohen and Freedland’s script is often laughable in the absurd that this story takes place. Each choice made is bad, every moment is endless, and there is absolutely no fear or curiosity as for these killers. Not since Peter JacksonHobbit’s trilogy has such a wide story on three films in a way that seemed completely useless. When the film tries to summarize the events of the first film, it takes only a few quick sentences, in case you need proof of the little to happen in these films. But at least with Chapter 1They could fall back to tell the story of 2008 Foreigners. Here, they are completely unmarked when they have to find their own story in this universe. At one point, Chapter 2 Feels the need to introduce a gigantic wild boar to terrorize Maya. And if it’s not bad enough, We even get a flashback on the origin of the boar. It’s as if Chapter 2 Throw everything on the wall to see what works, apart from, you know, play with what made the first film a solid horror.
At the same thing very less, Madelaine Petsch does her best with an extremely weak script and a director who cannot manage horror. It gives an effective performance that plays in the tension of the scene and shows us the emotion that we should Feel looking at the film. If the film could correspond to the terror that Petsch presents here, this trilogy would have a chance.
But Foreigners: Chapter 2 is an exhausting basastarde of the place where this story started in 2008. No one seems to remember why Foreigners Worked, and rather try to water this concept with a terrible rhythm, bad origins (and wild boars) and extremely stupid choices made with each turn. It is a shame that the three films of this trilogy were filmed together, because at this stage, it would be difficult to imagine how Chapter 3 could correct this flowing ship. Foreigners: Chapter 2 is a real disaster, one of the worst horror films of the yearAnd it’s damned that this is what this franchise came to.
Foreigners: Chapter 2 Now play in theaters.
- Release date
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September 26, 2025
- Execution time
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96 minutes
- Director
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Harlin Renny
- Writers
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Alan Freedland, Alan R. Cohen, Amber Loutfi
- Producers
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Courtney Solomon
- Suite (s)
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Foreigners: Chapter 3 (2025)
- Franchise (s)
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Foreigners
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Richard brake
Sheriff Rotter
- Madelaine Petsch does what she can make the horror of this palpable experience.
- The Strangers: Chapter 2 is mismanagement of everything that made the original 2008 which is worth it.
- Each character and every choice they make is really ridiculous.
- Chapter 2 has no idea how to build tensions.
- The decision to give the bad guys a background is appalling appalling.
