Don't Breathe 2 (2021) - Enough!

 

★☆☆☆☆

I thought I was watching something else at first instead of a sequel to 2016’s ‘Don’t Breathe’, an exceptional horror that delivers high level of claustrophobia and sickening stuff that you could find hard to believe. Near the end of the film however, I am assured by the blind man’s own confession, that my memory about him is right. That he’s killed. He’s raped. He is a sicko! I couldn’t help but wonder how come a sick old man back there has become such a simpatico die-hard hero right here all of a sudden. To survive the film, you got to accept this sort of ridiculous change of setup or characterization but I just can’t!

‘Don’t Breathe 2’ is a total disaster from whatever angle you look at it. The setting that’s supposed to take your breath away is gone! So is the claustrophobic feel! What you get instead is simply a carefree game of hide-and-seek-and-chase-and-kill. Some of the action scenes look preposterous while most are exaggerated. Like expected, there’s also something gross here as a plot twist to get under your skin, which is no longer about the blind man in case you’re still curious, but it’s not as chilling and shocking compared with what’s going on last time. And what makes the film that’s already a bad taste way worse is the awkward post-credit scene suggesting, not so obviously though, that the blind man could still be alive and kicking in the next installment coming!

Well, to me, ‘Don’t Breathe 2’ is literally a death sentence to the franchise if they’re ever going to keep making more. I’m not going to catch up no matter what. Enough is enough!