Ready Or Not 2 a dulled splatter sequel, bland bio-docu Nobu is hard to swallow

Reviews of the films headlined by Scream Queen Samara Weaving and celebrity chef Nobuyuki Matsuhisa. Read more at straitstimes.com.

108 minutes, opens on March 26 ★★☆☆☆

The story: There is still no honeymoon for Grace MacCaullay (Samara Weaving) after averting ritual sacrifice on her hellish wedding day. Her in-laws’ destruction at the end of Ready Or Not (2019) has created a vacancy in a satanic council, whose four remaining member clans are now hunting her in a contest for the High Chair that controls the world.

Radio Silence, the American film-making collective of Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, and returning star Weaving pick up immediately from their surprise splatter comedy hit, with luckless bride Grace chased around a sprawling estate in Ready Or Not 2: Here I Come.

Also captured is her estranged kid sister Faith (Kathryn Newton), and Grace has only her toughness and smarts to keep them both alive.

There was once such schadenfreude in watching this working-class girl turn the tables on the evil oligarchs.

Weaving is a full-volume Scream Queen. But the anti-capitalist satire is exhausted in a sequel that is a dulled repeat with just double the carnage and multiple enemies from an expanded mythology.