- Title: Ready or Not 2: Here I Come
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The sequel to 2019’s Ready or Not picks up immediately after the first film with Grace MacCaullay (Samara Weaving) rushed to the hospital and forced to answer questions from the suspicious police about just what happened in the Le Domas home before having to go on the run again from more millionaires hunting for her head.
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come provides more of the same while attempting to enlarge both Grace and the Le Domas’ world to accommodate for several new characters. For Grace, that means creating an estranged sister allowing Faith MacCaullay (Kathryn Newton) to be the one shocked by events this time around and provide leverage to force Grace to play one more game. In terms of our new baddies, the sequel offers up other families of uber-rich Satan worshippers who fight for the chance to kill Grace which will raise their prestige among the families putting one of them in the top seat.
Our rich assholes this time around include the fraternal Danforth twins (Sarah Michelle Gellar and Shawn Hatosy) who first have to kill their father to compete, Chen Xing (Olivia Cheng), the Rajans (Varun Saranga, Nadeem Umar-Khitab, and Masa Lizdek), and the El Caidos (Nestor Carbonell, Maia Jae, and Juan Pablo Romero). We also get a quite amusing Elijah Wood as the lawyer on site to explain, and enforce, the rules of the game.
Very much a typical horror sequel, the film attempts to recreate the fun of the first film while attempting to provide bigger stakes the second time around. Given Grace was the sole survivor of Ready or Not, you can feel the strain of the machinations of the script to manufacture a second game for Grace (and a sister materialized out of nowhere). While lacking the surprise and inventiveness of the first film, Ready or Not 2: Here I Come still provides plenty of the same type of bloody non-stop action, although the film’s ending may divide fans.
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The script plays on the absurdity of the situation allowing plenty of dark comedy throughout with the stakes being quite literally kill or be killed leading to a bonkers ending that cements Ready or Not as an instantly rewatchable bloody treasure.