The Old Guard 2

What was that? Where did the second half of the film go? My five points are lenient, as I like the first movie, the story, and the actors. I was really excited about this film and also curious to see what would become of Quynh after lying at the bottom of the sea for 500 years and dying about 4 million times. That must do something to you. But no! After 45 minutes, I was wondering when the film would finally start. It was so slow, and ultimately the story is just boring. Just as disappointing as Highlander 2 ;-). And shortly before the end, I realized that this film has no ending, and Netflix had simply ripped me off.

I loved the first movie. It felt like a proper 3 act story structure. This movie however felt unfinished. As if it were just half a movie. All preamble for a finale. Some parts were interesting and gave context but it felt like it was just Act 1 bordering on the 2nd act of a full story.

The acting was good, the world building was absolutely needed and expanded the world. The movie however had no tangible resolution, the ending couldnt even be called a cliffhanger. I found myself sitting there at the end asking "was that it?" I hope they dont decide to wait years to release the next part of this story. They should have doubled the length and released it as one film.

This seems to have been a script by committee, so it's mostly clumsy (and long) narrative dumps punctuated by action scenes. I guess I was naive to think there might be more character development. What little there is had negligible impact on me which is unfortunate because I really liked these characters in the first movie.

We did get to see Quhyn at least and, understandably, she's not a happy camper. I liked her scenes with Theron's Andy. Uma Thurman is a terrific villain. I enjoyed the fight choreography until the climactic battle. I would be very happy to never see another helicopter in an action movie climax. At this point they trigger only eye rolls from me.

Given that I have a weakness for Matthias Schoerharts gorgeous eyes and Charlize swinging a labrys, I will generously give this disappointing movie 5 stars.

I quite enjoyed the original film and was excited when this came out.

Unfortunately, it's chock full of lazy writing with some mediocre acting sprinkled in. It dragged on and on, and when things started to look interesting, the movie ended! I wouldn't event call that a cliffhanger - that would imply something interesting that didn't conclude. This was not interesting. This left a bad taste in the mouth.

There were a couple really lame attempts at humor that fell flat.

You just get the impression they were bent on making this sequel into 2 parts. This being a primer for a finale. Except this is a terrible ad for that finale.

Someone called this the "typical sequel" and sadly, that's true. This was badly made.

5/10 is generous for this flick.

Its hard to make a sequel. The 5 stars is to high of a score. The stars are for the fightscenes (to few) and for the cinamatic side; The decors and scenery are good. The acting, storyline and the speed where boring and pretty predictable. In the first movie the actors had more chemistry more humor it seemed they had more fun. The first fight scene had some of that. The story made more sense. It seemed like bits and pieces and inlost track where they where at times. I turned the movie off halfway it just didnt grabbed or could hold my attention. And the end? The end diserves no stars at all!!. I am very glad i did not see this in the cinema. I would feel robbed. Ow English is not my native language so please dont mind my grammatica.