Hint for a third part
"Don't Breath 2" .. The repentant killer turns into the hero
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It is very difficult to maintain originality in Hollywood, and it is even more difficult to be satisfied with the original film. The success of a film that generates sums of money pushes producers and studios to repeat the process, so the result is the regression of the second part to the level of imitation, repetition and cliché, and we watched four months ago how Quiet Place 2 drifted to safety, leaving a bold part One.
Today, Don't Breathe 2 does exactly the same thing and descends into the category of B-movie thriller, after the first installment was an original that gave an important lesson to imitation films five years ago.
The movie, with a budget of not more than 10 million dollars at the time, soared with revenues above 140 million.
The first part was written by Uruguayan Frederico Alvarez, and his friend Rudo Siegs, and the first was the director.
This time the two wrote the script and Siegs in the directing seat.
While the first part was completely self-reliant without borrowing from other films, and all the positions of the film's characters in the script were original.
Here the situation is different, Siegs takes the film in the direction of artificial horror, and the ideas are clearly no match for those we saw in the first movie.
It doesn't matter, now we have a movie that wants to complete the story, or create its own "Don't Breath" world, similar to the worlds and universes that Hollywood has created since the beginning of the last decade.
At its best this is a breathtaking suspense thriller, and at its worst it's more like the Steven Seagal movies, but with limited combat skills, because the hero/villain is blind, and dependent on his sense of hearing.
It seems we have so many blind or deaf movies now that it would be a cliché if we saw a movie of this quality by next year.
The film takes place eight years after the first movie, which means it takes us to 2024, here we see blind man Norman Nordstrom (Stephen Lang) living in the woods away from the abandoned Detroit neighborhood he was staying in in the first part when he lost his child.
We see him raising a little girl named Phoenix (Madeline Grace), who knows nothing about her mother, who died eight years ago.
According to the blind man, he saved her from a fire, and she was the only one in front of him from her family.
The question: “Did the blind man find a woman who used her womb to give birth to this child, or is he telling the truth?”
Now we see the style of raising a man who lost his daughter in an accident and committed an unforgivable crime to be a father again (the events of the original movie), we see him teaching Phoenix at home and teaching her the skills of escaping from dilemmas as happens in the training of armies, and the film reveals that he was a former marine who participated in the Gulf War .
The blind man was an atheist in the previous part, but now he tells Phoenix that God is just despite all the cruelty to us.
For the second time, the blind man's house is being stormed, this time not by teenagers, but by former soldiers who form a gang specialized in stealing human organs and led by an evil doctor.
The blind man discovers that his dog is not in his place, so he goes to look for him, and here the invaders enter Phoenix.
And we see the best and most beautiful scene in the movie, a one-shot show without cutting.
Phoenix manages to escape from the gang as a ninja from a Japanese animation.
The camera pursues the Phoenix amazingly, intelligently and silently.
And the blind person arrives at home in a move that only Terminator can do!
He teaches some of the gang members a hard lesson before he receives painful blows and withdraws tactically to return with very clever strikes that depend on his sense of hearing.
The house cat and mouse hunt turns into a bloodbath and the number of invaders is reduced.
It turns out that group leader Raylan (Brendan Sexton) has an agenda more than just organ-stealing, his plan initially succeeds in kidnapping the girl, and the film turns from a home invasion to a child rescue.
The reason for the transformation is the desire of writers and directors to develop the character of Lang and transform him from a rapist killer into a hero who seeks to save a child he raised in order to repent of his past sins.
This is exactly the path of Arnold Schwarzenegger's character in "Terminator."
Grace gives the strong impression that she's the lead in the film alongside Lang in the opening scene, but the directors aren't interested in that, and her importance wanes as the film progresses into a story device focused on the repentant killer trying to save her.
The blind man receives many blows that lead him to the line between human and superhero.
At the same time, his combat capabilities appear in an unbelievable way, so how can a blind man accurately hit three criminals with him in the same room with his pistol based on sound only?!
Lang is very suitable for the role and the man was born to play a villain, and we should not forget that he was the villain of "Avatar" in 2009. But here the filmmakers are asking him what the human mind does not accept.
After the end of the black screen and the appearance of the names of the film crew, there is a hidden scene that suggests the possibility of making a third part.
We say: “Making a second part was an unnecessary risk, but if there is a plan to make a third, it needs a new beginning and other characters.”
Or the third movie about the events before the beginning, that is, how the blind man lost his daughter and what happened to the teenagers storming his house at the beginning of the first movie.
After the end of the black screen and the appearance of the names of the film crew, there is a hidden scene that suggests the possibility of making a third part.
It descends to the level of second-class suspense films, after the first part was original, which gave an important lesson to imitation films five years ago.
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