"Foreigners - Chapter 2" manages to be A slight improvement in terms of "Chapter 1", which does not say muchBut at least there is what goes for ourselves as we head to the final of this unnecessary remake/retraining/sequel/alternative universe trilogy. Rennie Harlin's return director and Alan R.'s writing duo Cohen and Alan Frieland make an interesting choice of home -made spinning to a horror for survival, creating some unexpected pieces and some exciting sequences in the woods - including an entertaining piece of animal attack. Unfortunately, the film suffers from repetitive pieces, forcing some bad choices of the main character. But the biggest mistake "Foreigners - Chapter 2" is that it spends a significant time, telling us the backstew of the title strangers.

Yes, so it is, now we know what foreigners look like children, and even why they started killing. Now, building mythology is not necessarily bad, nor to give your masked murderous trio. But in fact, to show their first murder and give him a goal, except for "because you were home" completely passes the thesis "Random Murder" of the film (which is repeated in the initial text, spraying some statistics for foreigners who accidentally kill people).

Taking a page of "Halloween II", the film takes place a few minutes after the end of "Chapter 1", with Maja Lucas at Madeleine Petz at the hospital after surviving a brutal attack by Dolfface, a man in a mask and a girl from PIN. The moment Townsfolk learned that there was a survivor of the latest random murders in their remote city, Maya, just so she was going to get another visit from her killers. Hence, the film becomes a game with cats and mice, while Maya runs through Oregon's forest, releasing the trio of murder, elements and other dangers.

Harlin is competent when it comes to aspects of script survival, walking for a long time and stadium, while Maya works for her life in the hospital, to more frenetic cuts and movements of the camera in the woods. Now, when the surprise factor has disappeared and killing attempts are not very accidental, "Foreigners - Chapter 2" wisely spend a large part of the duration that Maya must only survive in the woods, rather than just trying to escape. Forget the torture or shrinkage and paste the most frightening thing that happens in this film involves simply re-tightening the wounds, with the sound designing a hell of a good thing that the audience wants to crawl deep in their places.

Unfortunately, "foreigners: Chapter 2" breaks down by nature that it is part of the planned trilogy. Who knows, maybe this will pay off when the last entrance arrives and we will look at the confusing elections in the first two and see the big picture. But, as it stands, these first two films are not as successful as stand -alone stories, and as a sequel not only to "Chapter 1", but the original 2008 film by Brian Bertino, "Chapter 2" just feels like a too much left turn. As mentioned, the film is trying to explain the origin of foreigners, slowly building some larger plot and cycle of random killings, while allowing us to get to know the three men under the masks. The problem is that to give them backsters is to take away from the coincidence of the killings and to give us a real motivation for the killings feels like a complete betrayal of the franchise.

With a fairly sharp reduction in black and medium-credit tensions for "Chapter 3", it is clear that Charlie and the company think of this as the only story told in three chapters, the one who has more to say rather than "don't open the door to foreigners". The problem is that, as the only movie, "Foreigners - Chapter 2" feel the wrong step. This is simply an improvement because this trilogy has started pretty bad, but still, non -inspiring horror for survival with repetitive pieces, confusing character choices and mythology that feels like deleting the very reason for his franchise in the first place.

/Movie rating: 4 out of 10.

"Foreigners - Chapter 2" are issued in theaters on September 26, 2025.