Ready or Not 2: Here I Come Reviewed

Picking up right where the first one left off, we follow Grace after she escaped being hunted by her new husband‘s family on their wedding night… to now being hunted by five different families in order for them to gain some ultimate satanic power and rule the world. And to make matters worse, they kidnap Grace’s strained sister, Faith, forcing the sisters to work together to try and survive.

To me, the best thing about this movie is the cast; there are a lot of recognizable faces, and everyone gives a great performance, all balancing the tone of horror and comedy well.

Samar weaving takes the lead, and this is a great showcase for her talents. She gives a very realistic and scared performance (as anyone would be in this situation), but she also has a strong dry sense of humor, which she was able to infuse into the performance, and she gives really good facial reactions during the action parts.

Kathryn Newton was also great as the sister Faith; her more bubbly and naïve personality worked well off of Grace's more weary and panicking performance. Not to mention both actresses have really good chemistry and do feel like sisters with a lot of baggage to them.

I also liked the sisters' dynamic together; it felt very realistic and went in some surprising directions. Some of it did feel a little bit contrived and overdramatic, but it was never far-fetched and does fit given the characters' history together.

Sarah Michelle Gellar & Shawn Hatosy play the lead villains/twins; both are good at being intimidating and are a little more sympathetic than you would expect at the beginning, although Gellar's character towards the end does go in some directions that felt a little out of character, like it didn’t feel properly set up, but it wasn’t that distracting or took away from the film in any big way.

David Cronenberg also appears as the twins' father; it's always good to see him pop up in films, and he gives a very solid and foreboding performance.

A fun surprise was Maia Jae as one of the extended family members, who has an interesting tie to the first film. She and Weaving have a fun, almost Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck type rivalry, and they probably have my favorite sequence in the whole film, which was very creative and a good balance of action and comedy.

Another standout from a relative newcomer was Varun Saranga; his character was so ridiculous and in over his head, not to mention the actor gave some great facial reactions. I could see him getting some of the biggest laughs from audiences.

Elijah Wood, Nestor Carbonell, and Kevin Durand always give good solid performances, and this film is no different. I especially like how Wood was so calm yet creepy and funny at the same time.

Not really a complaint, but something I noticed is the way the game is set up. You have a lot of the comedic characters in one location and the more serious characters in another location, and your cut back-and-forth between something serious happening and then we get the reaction from the more comedic characters for the punchline, and I just wish they had incorporated the community elements between the two groups a little more, some other characters, and a couple of comedic moments, but that’s more nitpick than anything, and I don’t think we’ll bother most people in their enjoyment.

The special effects were quite well done in the film, and for such a gory and bloody movie, it never felt too over-the-top or took away from the funny elements of the film.

The film also has a good pacing, starting off strong and getting to the action quite fast, which I appreciate. Towards the third act, it does slow down a little bit, but it does lead to a nice twist, and the final part is a good payoff.

The color greeting was also very well done, and I liked some of the lighting choices.

The director‘s next film is the new Brendan Fraser movie. In certain parts you can definitely feel like they’re doing test footage with certain sets to train capture the right feel of a creepy mummy movie, but it never feels out of place in this film, and they did a good job at it, so it does make me a little more excited for the new Mummy film.

Also, big props to the fight choreographers; they had a lot of fun, and creative action ended with a good balance between harsh fight moves and almost Three Stooges antics.

Ready or Not 2 is a very solid sequel. Personally, I prefer the first because I liked the dynamic of the evil family, but I liked how they fleshed out Grace’s character with her relationship to Faith. A lot of the comedic characters got good laughs out of me; the action set pieces were very creative and exciting to watch, not to mention cool set design, and I’m always a sucker for seeing Sarah Michelle Geller kick ass in something funny and supernatural. I give the film a low four stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️; it’s definitely a fun time at the movies.